GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The world’s hydropower developers want a seat at the green recovery funding table alongside other key decarbonization technologies such as wind, solar, batteries and green hydrogen. That’s equivalent to a 65 percent increase on current global hydropower capacity, according to the IHA’s 2020 Hydropower Status Report.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hydropower, the world's largest source of renewable electricity, could begin using environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) measures to bolster project financing from the end of this year. The application of the hydropower criteria to the climate bonds standard and certification scheme has been under review since 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Over the past five years, Europe's base of conventional hydropower and pumped hydro capacity grew at about 1 percent a year, reaching 251 gigawatts in 2019, according to the International Hydropower Association (IHA). In the meantime, green hydrogen and batteries pose a rising threat to hydropower plants and their future profits.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

The 16-GW Baihetan hydropower plant on the upstream branch of China’s Yangtze River has begun generating electricity for the first time, according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV. CCTV reported that the project’s first two 1-GW turbines will start up after a three-day trial. GW Three Gorges Dam once it is fully completed in July 2022.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

There are innumerable dams around the world helping communities manage water supply, regulate flooding, and generate hydropower. Sedimentation that settles in reservoirs can build up over time, leading to a loss of water storage capacity and damaging hydropower dams, turbines, and water intakes. Image Credit: EOMAP. Image Credit: EOMA.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The global hydropower market size is expected to become around USD 371.8 billion by the end of 2030 and growing at a CAGR of 5.16% from 2022 to 2030, as per new report study by Precedence Research.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2022

The global small hydropower market size is projected to hit around USD 4.5 billion by 2030 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 2.6% from 2022 to 2030.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The latest study collated and published by Nova one advisor analyzes the historical and present-day scenario of the global Small Hydropower market to accurately gauge its growth potential.

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Solar Power World

MAY 28, 2020

By Emanuele Quaranta, subject matter expert, PreScouter Hydropower and solar power plants were developed separately in the past. Recently, hydro and solar plants have started to merge into photovoltaic-hydropower hybrid plants, where floating solar panels are installed on the water surface of hydropower reservoirs and/or on the dam surface.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Gia Schneider and her brother Abe started Natel Energy based on a hydropower turbine their father designed. It’s designed to protect wildlife and drastically cut the ecological impact of hydropower. “Our objectives have actually not wavered. Gia also has a long history in energy.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hydropower to help integrate wind and solar energy resources, helping move toward the joint vision to reach a majority renewables American electric grid within a decade

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U.S. Green Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Unfortunately, even some of the safer options, like hydropower, still have adverse effects. The post How Hydropower Can Be More Environmentally Friendly appeared first on U.S. One of the most difficult challenges in the environmental field is determining which source of energy will be the most beneficial. While each.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Civil engineering specialist Land & Water has won a contract to construct a new hydropower station at Caversham Weir in Reading on behalf of client Reading Hydro CBS. The post Civil engineering firm to construct a new hydropower station in Reading first appeared on Envirotec.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 9, 2021

MAN Energy Solutions and ANDRITZ Hydro have completed a strategic framework agreement to jointly develop international projects for the production of green hydrogen from hydropower. Hydropower is one of the few completely climate-neutral forms of energy, which is capable of providing base load power,” Mette said. “We

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) has released a research and policy paper that outlines how hydropower could be pivotal in supporting growth in green hydrogen. Looking ahead hydropower could potentially supply at least 1,000 TWh of the additional electricity demand required in IRENA’s 2050 scenario.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

hydropower plants will be 14% lower in 2021 than it was in 2020. hydropower capacity. In 2020, hydropower plants in these states generated 136 billion kWh of electricity, representing 54% of U.S. hydropower generation that year. Over the summer, hydropower generation in these states moved back within the 10-year range.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By transitioning to a 100% renewable energy grid with a sustainable hydropower backbone, we can curb the worst effects of climate change. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid. By combining hydropower with wind and solar, we can decarbonize our grids without sacrificing reliability.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 15, 2023

Just one river is due to have 36 hydropower projects, with local people saying the impacts of tunnelling the mountainside are already forcing them to leave their homes.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 26, 2021

Ivanhoe Mines Energy DRC is tasked with delivering reliable, clean, renewable hydropower to the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine. The financing agreement was entered into in connection with the joint rehabilitation of the Mwadingusha hydropower plant under the first public-private partnership with SNEL, where five of six turbines have been completed.

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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

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 6, 2021

Members of the International Renewable Energy Agency and private sector representatives are joining forces to modernize and refurbish the existing hydropower fleet around the globe. With 43%, hydropower accounts for the largest share of installed renewable capacity , according to IRENA’s latest data.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 24, 2021

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) funded development of the newly released Pumped Storage Hydropower Valuation Guidebook to advance the state-of-the-art in assessing the value of pumped storage hydropower (PSH) plants and their contributions to the power system. Introduction. The post U.S.

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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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Eco-Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

New research shows that these three Southeast Asian nations are among the top 20 countries in the world with unused profitable hydropower potential. Strict environmental rules are, however, vital to unlocking this potential.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 26, 2021

Cuomo announced the New York Power Authority’s Board of Trustees has approved three low-cost hydropower allocations that will create 102 jobs across Western New York and spur $145 million in private capital investments. More than 80% of the electricity NYPA produces is clean renewable hydropower. The approved awards of 3.58

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The newly formed Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2) and the International Hydropower Association (IHA) have set out a mutually strengthening vision of how their two sectors can collaborate and contribute to tackling climate change. Eddie Rich, CEO of IHA, said: “Sustainable hydropower and green hydrogen is a perfect marriage.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2021

To reveal the current landscape and prospective role and influence of hydropower operations on the electric grid in the U.S., the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) commissioned the Hydropower Value Study (HVS): Current Status and Future Opportunities. electricity system.

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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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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

On a global level, construction of hydropower dams is anticipated to reach unparalleled rates in the coming years, specially in countries with developing economies. The above-mentioned factors are likely to drive the demand for hydropower turbine in the coming years.

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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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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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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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Eco-Business

MAY 12, 2022

A month ago, Lohari village in Uttarakhand was submerged in the waters of the reservoir built as part of the upcoming Vyasi hydropower project.

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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. Kruisvallei Hydro is the third hydropower project procured under South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer’s Procurement Program (REIPPPP) to come online.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The post The Brief: Climate adaptation and resilience, food-waste startup consolidation, hydropower in Nepal, fintech in Rwanda, responsible banking for next-gen savers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Catalytic Climate Capital Measuring and valuing climate adaptation to mobilize capital for low-carbon development.

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