Pelton turbine or pelton wheel is only one type out of 8 types of turbine that are currently used nowaday. It is even the first age turbine but still prove to be successful, even though many technologies are invented later.
There are 8 technologies for turbine that we are using nowaday as below.
1. Pelton Wheel
2. Paddle Wheel
3. Propeller
4. Woltman
5. Single Jet
6. Multi-jet
7. Compound
8. Axial