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Hydro Review: Commercializing a New Small Hydropower Technology

Renewable Energy World

Natel Energy has developed a new small hydropower turbine technology that offers an environmentally friendly and compact, modular hydro generation system. Natel understood that a huge economic barrier to the practical deployment of renewable hydropower lies in the danger to fish represented by spinning turbine blades. By Lise Houston.

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Brookfield Renewable, Plug Power partner on hydropower-fueled hydrogen plant

Renewable Energy World

Brookfield Renewable’s portfolio consists of hydroelectric, wind, solar and storage facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, and totals over 19,000 MW of installed capacity and an 18,000-MW development pipeline.

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China Three Gorges starts work on 1.7 GW pumped storage station

Renewable Energy World

CTG is a clean energy group focusing on large-scale hydropower development and operation. Renewable clean energy accounts for 97% of the total mix, while consolidated hydropower capacity represents 16% of the total installed capacity of hydro in China.

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IEA: CO2 from global power generation set to plateau

Business Green

However, demand growth is expected to accelerate again to an average of over three per cent a year over the next three years, driven largely by emerging and developing economies in Asia, which the IEA predicts will make up around 70 per cent of rising demand.

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SNAP invests in Phillipines energy storage

Smart Energy International

The project will be located at the Magat hydropower plant in Ramon, Isabela in the Philippines. The Philippines is an important market for Scatec, and we see several promising opportunities, especially in renewables,” Scatec’s General Manager for Southeast Asia, Torbjørn Elliot Kirkeby-Garstad added.

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Environmental Activists Fight Back as Companies Resort to ‘Lawfare’ to Quash Criticism 

DeSmogBlog

When she returned in 2018, long after the war had ended, a journalist encouraged her to go into the hills and take a look at some new hydropower plants on the river Lumbardhi i Deçanit. An area called ‘Zalli i Rupes, where environmental campaigners say gravel was dug for the construction of hydropower plants further down the river.

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IRENA: Renewables accounted for three quarters of new power capacity in 2019

Business Green

The global renewable power sector added 176GW of new capacity in total last year - just fractionally down on the 179GW added in 2018 - as rapid growth in wind, solar, hydropower and other renewable power sources outpaced the fossil fuel sector by a factor of 2.6, according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6