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The rapid depletion of fossil fuel reserves, alternate and sustainable energy resources are being sought in order to maintain the growing global energy requirements of the well researched alternative sources include bio-fuels, solar, wind, hydro and geo-thermal energy. Hydrokinetic energy from flow of rivers, streams and artificial water channels are considered to be a viable resource. One promising new technology to overcome these problems is the hydroelectric power extraction system based on energy harvesting from flow induced vibration, the flow here can be both liquid flow as well as air flow. There are three main types of energy harvesting from vortex induced vibrations (VIV) of bluff bodies, flutter energy harvesting system and energy harvesting with Helmholtz resonators. The vortex induced vibration (VIV) Based power generating system is a new concept in power generation from fluid flow in occasions, rivers and streams.