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Hydropower Jostles for Role in Global Green Recovery Programs

GreenTechMedia

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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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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'Not fit for purpose': Hydropower industry warns of 'chilling effect' of soaring business rates

Business Green

The British hydropower industry is being hamstrung by changes to business rates valuations which have lumbered some leading developers with crippling tax bills that have led directly to redundancies and curtailed plans to boost renewable energy capacity. You can't increase prices, you can't cut costs.

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Global Covid stimulus packages 'doing more harm than good' to planet, researchers warn

Business Green

Renewable electricity generation from hydropower, wind and solar PV is expected to grow strongly around the world over the next two years with output increasing by around eight per cent in 2021 and six per cent in 2022.

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ReNew Power acquires 359 MWs of hydro, solar projects in India

Renewable Energy World

ReNew will acquire L&T Uttaranchal Hydropower Ltd., This acquisition marks ReNew’s entry into the hydropower sector. budget package with wins for clean energy, climate. which owns the 99-MW Singoli Bhatwari Hydroelectric Project (SBHEP), from L&T Power Development Ltd., Read more: Senate passes $3.5T

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Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Create a Sustainable Warehouse and Green Factory

Green Business Bureau

The good news is that new technologies and methods have come about making it possible for the manufacturing industry to reduce its environmental footprint through energy conservation , alternative packaging, and smarter storage and organization (amongst other solutions). hydropower and wind power). bubble wrap and plastic sheets).

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Mangdechhu hydroelectric project – A game changer for Bhutan

Smart Energy International

With financial support from the Indian government in the form of a combined grant and loan, the project was completed within seven years from the award of the major civil, electromechanical and hydromechanical packages in March 2012.