hydropower production News
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Inspiring the world from Austria
Commercial Counselors from Austria in Asia, Far East and Oceania came to Niederranna to meet up and see the top-of-the-art production of hydropower turbines delivered by GLOBAL Hydro. Thank you for your visit! We are Looking forward to a further good cooperation with the Austrian Commercial ...
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House Passes Hydropower Policy Modernization Act
On Wednesday November 8, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to boost hydropower production in the United States by passing the Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017. H.R. 3043 would streamline the licensing process for hydropower facilities, primarily by designating the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as the lead agency in the process. The legislation is similar to ...
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Renewable energy can benefit from a changing climate
A warmer and wetter climate may have positive feedback on renewable energy sources. Better conditions for hydropower and biomass energy can be expected. A new analysis has been performed by Nordic and Baltic researchers. The Nordic Council of Ministers has published a new report on the impacts of 21st century climate changes on the development and use of renewable energy in the Nordic and Baltic ...
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NIB finances Norwegian Østfold Energi's investments in renewable energy
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Norwegian energy company Østfold Energi have signed a loan totalling NOK 179 million (EUR 23 million) for financing investments in wind and hydropower production, and district heating plants. The 12-year maturity loan will help finance two district heating plants, rehabilitation of five hydropower dams, the construction of the second phase of a wind farm ...
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Black & Veatch Signs Contract with Electricidade De Moçambique to Study Development Of Hydropower
Kansas City, Mo. - Mozambique’s national power company, Electricidade de Moçambique, has awarded Black & Veatch a contract funded under a U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) grant to study the feasibility of using the lower Lurio River, in northern Mozambique, as a hydropower source. Black & Veatch has started work on the project and is currently evaluating three schemes to ...
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Hydropower Investment Could Create a Million Canadian Jobs
The Canadian Hydropower Association (CHA) reported today that a study it commissioned indicates hydropower investment could produce over 1,000,000 Canadian jobs over the next 20 years from construction activities alone. These are known as FTEs, or "full-time equivalents," where each represents one person employed for one year. The employment opportunities would occur in every region of the ...
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Thailand announces plans of 2.7GW of floating solar
The state-run utility, ERAT, has announced plans of 2.7GW of floating solar. The plan includes 16 locations, all of which are dams, so they can improve hydroelectric production along with solar generation. ...
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NIB finances Norwegian E-CO Energi's investments in hydropower
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Norwegian energy company E-CO Energi have signed a loan totalling NOK 300 million (EUR 39 million) for financing investments in hydropower. The 15-year maturity loan will help finance three hydropower projects. The investments include the construction of a new dam, four new aggregates and a new hydropower plant. The new hydropower plant will replace a ...
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NIB finances hydropower loan programme in Norway
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and Norwegian Sparebanken Vest have signed a loan totalling NOK 500 million (EUR 64.4 million) for a loan programme aimed at small, local hydropower plants. The 10-year-maturity loan will be used for financing Sparebanken Vest's new loan programme for new hydropower projects and upgrading existing hydropower plants. The loan programme will exclusively finance ...
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Firm seeks Vt. power line under Lake Champlain
A New York company announced Thursday it hopes to build a 150-mile power line from the Canadian border under Lake Champlain and then across Vermont to the town of Ludlow where it would connect to the New England electric grid. The $1.2 billion New England Clean Power Link line could carry up to 1,000 megawatts of Canadian hydro-electricity, enough to supply about 1 million homes, said Donald ...
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NIB finances Norwegian Akershus Energi's renewable energy plants
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Norwegian energy company Akershus Energi have signed a loan totalling NOK 500 million (EUR 63.3 million) for financing the upgrade of two of Akershus Energi's hydropower plants and the construction of a new district heating plant, in the Akershus region, surrounding Oslo.The 10-year maturity loan will help finance six new generators and turbines for the ...
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Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
In 2015, after three years of slow growth, the growth of global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel use and from steel and cement production was brought to a standstill. One of the main causes was the 2% global decrease in coal burning and cement production - the largest decrease over the past five decades, apart from recessions. The global decrease in CO2 emissions from coal use was offset by ...
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Major Growth of Clean Energy Limited the Rise in Global Emissions in 2023
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose less strongly in 2023 than the year before even as total energy demand growth accelerated, new IEA analysis shows, with continued expansion of solar PV, wind, nuclear power and electric cars helping the world avoid greater use of fossil fuels. Without clean energy technologies, the global increase in CO2 emissions in the last five years ...
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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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Congress Takes Another Run at Passing Bush Energy Bill
WASHINGTON, DC , April 18, 2005 (ENS) - As gasoline prices soared above $2.40 per gallon in some parts of the country, and Congress prepares to debate energy legislation this week, pressure groups are jockeying for attention and influence for their solutions to America's energy problems. The United States needs to move beyond oil to cleaner energy technologies urged representatives of ...
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NIB to finance the new Búðarháls hydropower plant in Iceland
NIB will provide a loan for Landsvirkjun to finance a new hydropower project in Búðarháls, southern Iceland. The 16-year maturity loan totalling USD 70 million (EUR 52.5 million) will help build the new hydropower plant expected to produce 585 GWh of electricity annually. The intake reservoir of the power station will be formed with a 2.1 km-long dam over the Köldukvísl river. The Búðarháls ...
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Maryland’s Montco communities rank high in national competition to use green power
Two Maryland communities in Montgomery County achieved high ranking in EPA’s national competition challenging cities to voluntarily use more renewable energy sources for their electricity needs. Brookeville is the challenge winner for the highest green power percentage of total electricity use. Rockville placed 10th for towns using the most amount of green power. EPA’s year-long ...
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Swarthmore Ranks 3rd in National Competition to use Green Power
The borough of Swarthmore in Delaware County, Pa. achieved third place in EPA’s national competition challenging cities to voluntarily use more renewable energy sources for their electricity needs. During the year-long Green Power Community Challenge competition, Swarthmore purchased 27.9 percent of its total electricity from green power sources, the third highest percentage among the ...
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Cities competing to win EPA’s green power community challenge / district of Columbia and Brookville, MD. currently lead the green power charge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) first Green Power Community Challenge has reached its mid-year point with 36 communities setting an example for other cities, towns, villages, and Native American tribes to use renewable energy to help protect people’s health and the environment. At this point in the competition, the two category leaders are Washington, D.C. for its ...
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EPA launches Green Power Community challenge nationwide/local governments expand use of green power (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is kicking off its national “Green Power Community Challenge,” a year-long campaign to encourage cities, towns, villages, and Native American tribes to use renewable energy and fight climate change. Purchases of green power help to prevent greenhouse gas emissions and also help accelerate the development of new renewable energy capacity across ...
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