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Hydro Plant Maintenance & Reliability Brochure is Here!
Check out the brochure for the upcoming Hydro Plant Maintenance & Reliability Conference, June 9-10, 2011 in Vancouver, BC: http://bit.ly/fo5Yx1 Current speakers include: Kerry McCalman, US Bureau of Reclamation Allan Reid, Ontario Power Generation John Miller, Cloudworks Energy Jeff Townsend, Progress Energy Chris Mattson, Tacoma Power Generation John Mannetti, Puget Sound Energy Joel ...
By Marcus Evans
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Hydro Power Plant La Louge on the grid
Our latest small hydro reference is on the grid. Hydro power plant La Louge in France has an installed capacity of 170kW at 4.30m of head. It is a showcase for modern small hydro power with minimal civil works and low environmental impact. As a retrofit of an historic hydro power plant it is now ready for the next 100 years. The fish protection was upgraded by realizing safe upstream and ...
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French Power Plant Les Talcs on the Grid
At the end of 2021 hydro power plant Les Talcs has succesfully started operation in France. Hydro power plant Les Talcs is located in the South of Toulouse in the Ariège region and has been equipped with a DIVE-HAX-Turbine for medium head applications. The new turbine has an installed capacity of 300kW and can therefore provide energy for about 375 households, saving 600 tons of CO2 per ...
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Slovenia’s Lower Sava cascade progresses...
The European Investment Bank has recently approved the final €74 million ($116.8 million) tranche of a three-part loan to Slovenia, for two run-of-river hydro plants on the Lower Sava river. The loan, signed on 10 July, is partly being used for the 42.5 MW Blanca scheme, which is well under way, with completion scheduled for April 2009; the funds will also part-finance the 39.5 MW Kr˘sko ...
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Hear From Puget Sound Energy at the Hydro Plant Maintenance and Reliability Conference
Hydro plants have been around for many years and due to the increasing generation demand, many of these plants are being forced to operate under less-than ideal conditions. It is crucial for hydro plants to determine the approach they should take in regards to preserving these assets and modernizing the aging plants. John Mannetti is currently Supervisor of Asset Operations Analysis within the ...
By Marcus Evans
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Enel completes acquisition of 3 hydro projects in Mexico for a total capacity of 52 mw
Enel Investment Holding B.V. (a wholly-owned Dutch subsidiary of Enel S.p.A) yesterday night completed the acquisition of 100% of Inelec share capital from SLAP II Luxembourg SARL (an entity managed by Conduit Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm based in New York, and Grupo Qualita/Comexhidro) for a total consideration of USD 156 million (approximately 105 million euro). Inelec owns 3 ...
By Enel SpA
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RUSAL CEO takes part in emergency meeting of the RF Ministry of Energy on the situation at Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP
Oleg Deripaska, CEO of RUSAL, has taken part in a meeting held by the Minister of Energy Sergey Shmatko. The meeting was also attended by the Minister for Emergency Situation Sergey Shoygu and Chairman of the Board of Directors of RusHydro Vyacheslav Sinyugin. The meeting was held to discuss the breakdown at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Power Plant and its consequences for the energy supply in ...
By RusHydro
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10 Latest Successful Transformer Protector (TP) activations reported
Transformer explosions and fires are very damaging and frequent. Many experts anticipate that the number of failures per year will increase significantly in the near future because of the shorter duration life. Transformer explosions and fires create costly environmental pollution, repairs, plant outages, and are a risk to human lives. From May 3, 2013 to the present, the TRANSFORMER PROTECTOR ...
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The International Hydropower association`s 2016 Status Report is out!
The International Hydropower Association (IHA) has published its 2016 Hydropower Status Report. Building on statistics published by IHA earlier this year, the report highlights that 33.7 GW of new installed hydropower capacity was commissioned in 2015, including 2.5 GW of pumped storage. At the end of 2015, the world’s total installed hydropower capacity reached 1,212 GW, including 145 GW ...
By HydroBox NV
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Lake Dorothy Hydroelectric dam completion benefits Alaska residents
The Lake Dorothy Hydroelectric Project, located near Juneau Alaska, was begun in 2006 and completed in 2010. Karl Vander, of North Pacific Erectors, was the Project Manager. North Pacific Erectors, a General Contractor for commercial and industrial construction, provided all construction trade labor, materials and expertise in the design-build hydroelectric development. We recently asked Karl to ...
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Micro hydros can power rural Afghanistan, Nepal
Micro hydro-electric plants linked to a mini-grid offer a cost-effective and renewable option for rural electrification in the hilly and mountainous terrain of Afghanistan and Nepal, say researchers. For communities located more than ten kilometres away from the nearest grid substation, micro hydro mini-grid technology was found to be cheaper than extending central grid networks or investing in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Alstom will supply control systems and balance of plant equipment for Tysso II hydro power plant, Norway
Alstom signed a contract with Statkraft for the supply of new control systems and balance of plant equipment for the Tysso II hydro power plant in Skjeggedal in the south western part of Norway. The contract includes the supply, installation and commissioning of new equipment (control systems, station transformers, local distribution systems, circuit breakers and 72 kV cabling to the two units). ...
By Alstom
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ALLCOT registers the first LatAm TIGRs project with APX
ALLCOT has registered the first TIGRs project from Latin America certified by APX, a leading provider of infrastructure solutions to the environmental and energy markets. The project is a hydro plant situated on the Guatemalan highlands of San Marcos. Tradable Instruments for Global Renewables or TIGRs℠ are a new product for the voluntary renewable energy markets launched by APX last year, ...
By ALLCOT
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Global wind could hit 2.1 TW by 2030; Germany pilots wind plus pumped hydro
Global wind energy capacity could reach almost 1.68 TW in a moderate scenario and almost 2.1 TW in an advanced scenario by 2030, supplying up to 20% of global electricity, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)’s Global Wind Energy Outlook report released on October 21. GWEC’s Moderate Scenario reflects a world that maintains the trends from the past decade, with wind ...
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Green Crossroads launches `Hydrobox` in Kenya
Following a matchmaking between Belgian and Kenyan start-ups as part of the Silicon Savannah economic mission by Startups.be & Close the Gap, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Green Crossroads is happy to announce they have launched a new spin-off in Kenya. Green Crossroads supports organisations develop sustainable projects in emerging countries, with a particular focus on ...
By HydroBox NV
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Wallington, UK – meeting demands for a Changing World International Conference and Exhibition Lisbon, Portugal
As usual at the annual Hydro Conferences, a major Technical Exhibition will take place alongside the HYDRO 2010 Conference. The Hydro Conferences are renowned for their high-level international participants from all parts of the world (about 80 countries). The Exhibition provides a unique opportunity for all those playing a role in world hydropower development. Exhibition space is sold in units ...
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Cost of turning off UK wind farms reached record high in 2021
Investing in more long duration electricity storage, such as expanding Drax’s Cruachan pumped storage hydro plant in Scotland, would mean more excess renewable power could be stored and made available when required, cutting costs and carbon emissions. The cost of turning off UK wind farms to manage the electricity system rose from almost £300m during 2020 to over £500m in ...
By Drax Group
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ABB solution will monitor and manage dozens of hydro plants in North America
The solution will enable Brookfield Renewable Power, one of the largest generators of emission-free energy in the Americas, to monitor, control and manage its entire fleet of power generation facilities in North America. Brookfield Renewable Power operates 132 hydropower plants, one wind farm (one of the largest in Canada) and one thermal power plant in ten states and provinces of the United ...
By ABB
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Utilizing the Excess Coal-fired Boiler Talent in the U.S.
The U.S. is not building new coal-fired power plants and will be shutting down nearly 70,000 MW of existing power plants. There is uncertainty regarding the remaining 190,000 MW depending on clean power regulations. The result of this shrinkage is a large excess of coal-fired boiler talent in the country. Two options for beneficial use are to channel this talent into: Other types of power ...
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ABB wins US$31-million power order in Switzerland
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth US$31 million from Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG (KLL) to supply two turnkey substations and auxiliary power equipment for a hydro storage power plant facility at the Tierfehd hydro power plant in Switzerland. Booked in the second quarter of 2008, the order is part of KLL’s refurbishment and expansion plans for its ...
By ABB
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