hydropower component News
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$130 Billion for Renewable Energy: German Bank Reduces Investment Risk
Solar Power International 2011 Germany's federally-owned KfW banking group is facilitating renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in Germany with EUR 100 billion (over $130 billion) over the next five years. Germany is the world's largest photovoltaic market and leading wind energy generator in Europe. This boost will further decrease investment risk and accelerate the country's ...
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US Department of Energy celebrates new DOE 1.5 research wind turbine
Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have joined industry representatives and managers from DOE’s National Laboratories to celebrate the latest tool to advance the Department’s wind energy research: a state-of-the-art wind turbine installed at DOE’s National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, near Boulder. The turbine, which is the first ...
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Japan, ADB develop power project funding plan for Lao PDR, Viet Nam
Japan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help develop a financing program for a $240 million power transmission project that will enable Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) to export hydroelectric power to neighboring Viet Nam, where electricity demand is growing. The Japan Special Fund, through ADB, will provide a $1 million grant while the governments of Lao PDR and Viet Nam will ...
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Obama to limit carbon at power plants
President Barack Obama's national plan to combat climate change will include the first-ever regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, as well as increased production of renewable energy on public lands and federally assisted housing, environmental groups briefed on the plan said Monday. In a major speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, Obama will announce that ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Commissioning of Large Hydropower Projects in Latin America Fuels Demand for Large Hydro Turbines
The large hydro turbine (LHT) market in Latin America is all set to soar on the back of economic growth in developing countries and use of the hitherto untapped resources of tropical and subtropical rivers. The biggest push for the LHT market will come from Brazil's concerted energy planning and the ongoing construction of large hydropower projects aimed at sustaining the economic and demographic ...
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