Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

4 turbine-generator at the 16-GW Baihetan hydropower station , owned by China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), was put into operation on Nov. 19, the sixth unit commissioned at this world’s second largest hydropower plant and the 100th hydraulic generator commissioned by CTG along the mainstream of the Yangtze River.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Hydropower Sustainability Standard was launched Sept. 8 at the International Hydropower Association’s World Hydropower Congress and will help to ensure that hydropower projects across the world are recognized and certified for their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2019

Brazil has included four hydropower plants among the projects that will receive support as part of the country's investment partnerships program, called Programa de Parcerias de Investimentos or PPI.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 31, 2022

The NYPA board awarded two Erie County businesses with low-cost hydropower allocations — generated at NYPA’s Niagara Power Project hydroelectric facility in Lewiston — and one St. NYPA’s board also approved a 400-kW low-cost hydropower allocation to Niagara Refining. LW1 plans to invest at least $24.2 Lawrence County.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Electric actuators for a major hydropower dam installation in China are to be supplied by parts manufacturer Rotork. The giant Baihetan Dam hydropower plant is part of a cascade of dams on the Jinsha River (the upstream part of the Yangtze). Satellite view of the Xiluodu dam and hydropower plant on the Yangtze River in China.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A new report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “An Examination of the Hydropower Licensing and Federal Authorization Process,” reveals ways to streamline the licensing process for hydroelectric projects. But the mini-hydropower boom did not last. But the mini-hydropower boom did not last.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

MW hydropower facility the company will construct on the Ohio River. The hydropower facility will be located at the existing Emsworth Main Channel Dam. Army Corps of Engineers (the operator of the existing dam) on the project’s development, which requires the Corps’ approval before construction commences. Allegheny, Pa.,

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

The 4-MW Kruisvallei hydropower plant reached commercial operations in late February 2021, according to project developer Red Rocket. Construction of this small hydro plant, on the Ash River between Clarens and Bethlehem in the Free State Province of South Africa , began in March 2019.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

According to a new study published in Environmental Science Technology, hundreds of active hydropower plants are making a worse impact on the climate than fossil fuels. Scientists have known for a while now that hydropower facilities release greenhouse gases — mostly methane, but also CO2 and nitrous oxide.

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Global Renewable News

JUNE 5, 2023

The first of its kind in the UK, a pioneering project will see Scottish Water harness hydropower from waste water. Construction of this innovative scheme is well underway and involves the.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 18, 2021

Pakistan’s NESPAK, in a joint venture with Turkey’s DOLSAR, has won a contract for the Sustainable Hydropower Project in Uzbekistan, which involves the installation of three small hydropower plants on the Aksu River. Total cost of the project will be US$75 million. Joint-Stock Company Uzbekhydroenergo is the project executing agency.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Hydroelectricity has powered the lives of Ontarians for a century, and Ontario Power Generation is planning an extensive 20-year overhaul of its hydropower generating units to ensure clean, reliable hydropower continues to support the province’s wellbeing. The estimated $2.5

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 1, 2021

and is expected to be online by late 2022, with construction slated to begin by in the first quarter of 2022. The post Brookfield Renewable, Plug Power partner on hydropower-fueled hydrogen plant appeared first on Renewable Energy World. The plant will be located along the Susquehanna River in south-central Pennsylvania, U.S.,

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Zimbabwe has announced plans of constructing a 10-MW geothermal power plant at the Chimbwawata Hot Springs in the Binga district. The announcement comes after the country has experienced increase drought frequency resulting in lower output from hydropower plants which accounts for about 69% of Zimbabwe’s energy generation.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 11, 2021

Work is under way at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska to tie into a hydropower network to provide renewable power to the headquarters complex. The construction contract and related maintenance agreement are being managed by the Denver Service Center, the central planning, design and construction management office for the NPS.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The new modular steel buttress dam system facilitates the rapid construction of paired reservoir systems for grid-scale energy storage and generation using closed-loop pumped storage hydropower, cutting dam construction costs by one-third and reducing construction schedules by half.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 13, 2019

Statkraft announces it has decided to start construction of the 51.6-MW MW Los Lagos hydropower plant in Chile. The construction is planned to commence in August and completion is scheduled for second half of 2022.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 27, 2023

India is currently building as many as six large hydropower plants in Arunachal Pradesh. Experts say high costs, environmental damage and human rights concerns raise questions about the rationale behind the government’s push for dams.

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Renewables-Info

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Hydropower, as many of you already know, has the very long history of use. In fact, hydropower currently accounts for two thirds of the electricity generated from renewable energy sources worldwide, and is therefore touted by many as the most important renewable energy source.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

Scottish Renewables and the British Hydropower Association have written a joint letter to the Prime Minister calling on the UK Government to urgently support the deployment of long-duration electricity storage, including pumped storage hydro (PSH). The Cruachan pumped storage hydro facility, Argyll and Bute (image credit: Scottish Power).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mark Wilson, CEO of Intelligent Land Investments, told a conference of the British Hydropower Association in Glasgow on 24 November that while the current energy crisis offers “a great opportunity for renewables”, long-term energy storage will also be required to fulfil that potential.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The m-Presa modular steel buttress dam system facilitates the rapid construction of paired reservoir systems for grid-scale energy storage and generation using closed-loop pumped storage hydropower (PSH), cutting dam construction costs by one-third and reducing construction schedules by half.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 9, 2021

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has announced two winners of the Groundbreaking Hydro Prize, which challenged innovators to come up with new solutions to support hydropower project development by starting at square one — the foundation. Two teams were chosen as winners.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 7, 2022

China Three Gorges (CTG) said it has begun construction of the 1.7 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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 9, 2021

The project is placed at the Banja reservoir in Albania, where Statkraft is operating its 72-MW Banja hydropower plant. Vietnamese 500-MW floating solar and storage attracts investment from SEACEF Construction starts on California’s largest floating solar array. This demonstrates the safe, simple and fast construction methodology.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

announces that the 290-MW Nam Ngiep 1 hydropower plant has begun commercial operations. Kansai Electric Power Co.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The construction of a project requires lower land acquisition costs and means less shading on modules. That potential is even greater when FPV systems are paired with hydropower, reaching 4,400 to 5,700 GW. NREL considered hybrid FPV-hydropower systems that could share a substation and transmission.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The AUMA SA multi-turn actuator for continuous underwater use opens new applications for electric actuators: for water supply, in hydropower plants, in civil engineering constructions for water applications, and for specific underwater applications. AUMA has also enhanced its underwater actuators with explosion-proof versions.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 12, 2021

ReNew will acquire L&T Uttaranchal Hydropower Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of engineering and construction firm L&T. This acquisition marks ReNew’s entry into the hydropower sector. which owns the 99-MW Singoli Bhatwari Hydroelectric Project (SBHEP), from L&T Power Development Ltd.,

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Energy giant Drax has today confirmed that it is formally seeking planning permission for plans to construct a new underground pumped storage hydro power station, which would more than double the electricity generating capacity of its iconic 'Hollow Mountain' Cruachan facility in Scotland.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

That water will then be released to flow through two hydropower systems, one with 4 megawatts and the other with 20 megawatts of generation capacity, converting that stored energy back to electricity. Wrangling the necessary approvals could take a year and a half, and construction will take around two years, Rockwell said.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

Slovenia’s Dravske elektrarne Maribor, which operates as part of the HSE Group, announced it is beginning construction of segment five of the Zlatoli?je je and 116-MW Formin hydropower plants in the coming years. je solar power plant on the left bank of the discharge channel for the 136-MW Zlatoli?je je hydroelectric plant.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Additionally, the firm will plan and perform a geotechnical investigation that will support the feasibility design of the underground facilities, identify pump-generating equipment, identify routing for a transmission line to a nearby grid interconnection, evaluate project constructability, and provide an opinion on probable construction cost. “We

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

That money would go to jobs and tax base in the state, he noted, whereas alternatives like importing hydropower from Canada send wealth out of state. The company is also planning to build a massive grid battery on the premises at Ravenswood, one of the few spots within the city that can accommodate such construction.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Together, the Clean Path NY and Champlain Hudson Power Express projects will add 3,400 megawatts of new solar and wind power generation and establish two new high-voltage direct current transmission lines to deliver 18 million MWh of clean solar, wind, and hydropower to New York City every year, enough to power 2.5 million homes.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The move gives the hydropower giant a solar boost and, for Solarcentury, makes the task of delivering its substantial pipeline a bit easier. The 300 MW Talayuela solar plant, in construction in Spain, will add significantly to that number. Norwegian state-owned utility Statkraft acquired the U.K.-based Solarcentury has developed 1.2

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 6, 2022

The project will be located at the Magat hydropower plant in Ramon, Isabela in the Philippines. The energy storage project is in final preparations for construction, which will start in 2022, with a targeted commercial operation date in 2024. A first for both partners. EPC and financing. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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