hydropower resource News
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Energy Department report finds major potential to increase clean hydroelectric power
As part of President Obama’s all-out, all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department today released a renewable energy resource assessment detailing the potential to develop electric power generation at existing dams across the United States that aren’t currently equipped to produce power. The report estimates that without building a single new dam, these available hydropower ...
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ADB to lend Azerbaijan US$160m for power network upgrade
Azerbaijan is upgrading its ageing power transmission facilities through a $160 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The 25-year loan will help build a double-circuit 220 kilovolt transmission line and associated substation facilities, replacing two existing lines which have been in use for about 60 years by state-owned power company, Azerenergy. Over 20% of the country’s energy ...
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Energy Department Accepting Small Business Grant Applications for Low-Head Hydropower Turbines and MHK Monitoring Systems
The Energy Department began accepting applications on November 24 for its FY 2015 Phase 1 grant topics, including two Water Power Program topics, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Under this funding opportunity, the Energy Department seeks applications for innovations in the following areas: Innovative Small, Low-head Hydropower ...
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FERC, interior department sign agreement on offshore renewable energy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Department of the Interior have formalized an agreement for working cooperatively to lease and license renewable energy projects on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS). Following up on a general agreement reached in March, the two federal agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 9 to clarify each agency's jurisdictional ...
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Vietnam announces bold nuclear plans
Vietnam has announced ambitious plans to develop a nuclear power industry, with the aim of having eight nuclear reactors up and running by 2030. According to the official Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien officials announced last month (22 June) that the reactors would be located in five central provinces, and would generate 15,000 megawatts of power — enough to meet ten per cent of the ...
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Report Finds Major Potential to Grow Clean, Sustainable U.S. Hydropower
Building on the Obama Administration’s commitment to an all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department and its Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a renewable energy resource assessment today (April 29, 2014) detailing the potential to develop new electric power generation in waterways across the United States. The report estimates over 65 gigawatts (GW) of potential new ...
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India´s multi-billion dollar clean energy project
With funding support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), India’s national power grid operator is embarking on an ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to expand the country’s power transmission grid and link stable clean energy supplies to areas suffering shortages. ADB is extending a US$600 million loan to Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (POWERGRID) in a multitranche financing facility to ...
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Bourne Energy develops military version of its BackPack power plant
Bourne has completed a new version of its Backpack Power Plant (BPP-1) hydrokinetic system, a zero-fuel continuous 24/7/365 power generator that is ultra-portable. The original 30-pound, 500W BPP-1 has garnered considerable interest for applications ranging from rural electrification to powering remote farms, ranches as well as for emergency power. Bourne’s militarized version has been entirely ...
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Hydro the most likely clean energy to develop worldwide, says Bourne Energy
The world's energy appetite is growing fast, and energy production capacity is being rapidly devoured. A fundamental shift in global demand has begun accompanied by a slow supply response, given the long lead-time required to rebuild surplus fossil fuel capacity. While the major renewables, solar and wind power, are growing at double digits they still make up less than 1% of the country’s total ...
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DOE, DOI and Army Corps of engineers sign memorandum of understanding on hydropower
US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and US Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have announced that the two agencies, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, will cooperate more closely and align priorities to support the development of environmentally sustainable hydropower. The Memorandum of Understanding represents a new approach to hydropower development – a strategy that ...
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NREL Estimates Economically Viable U.S. Renewable Generation
Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are providing, for the first time, a method for measuring the economic potential of renewable energy across the United States. A study applying this new method found that renewable energy generation is economically viable in many parts of the United States largely due to rapidly declining technology costs. The ...
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Last Chance to Support Worldwatch`s Work in Africa
Dear Tony, I'm writing to ask you to join us on an exciting project. Today is the last day of our matching campaign to help raise money to expand our Sustainable Energy Roadmap work to sub-Saharan Africa. If you donate right now, two Worldwatch donors will match your gift, so that every dollar you donate will be worth two. We need your help raising $20,000 to meet our goal of $40,000. So ...
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Energy Department Issues New Report, Highlights the Success and Potential of American Hydropower
In support of the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, today at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Danielson announced the release of the 2014 Hydropower Market Report, the first ever report to quantify the current size, scope, and variability of our nation’s hydropower supplies. ...
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Energy Department Issues New Report, Highlights the Success and Potential of American Hydropower
In support of the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, today at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Danielson announced the release of the 2014 Hydropower Market Report, the first ever report to quantify the current size, scope, and variability of our nation’s hydropower supplies. ...
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Agreement Signed to Decarbonise Southeast Asia’s Largest Economy
Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), this week signed a partnership that will see the two parties work closely to identify and implement decarbonisation pathways aligned with a 1.5°C future. Indonesia took over as G20 President for the first time in history at the recently concluded Rome Summit, where the world’s largest ...
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Departments of Energy and Interior award nearly $17 million for advanced hydropower technologies
U.S. Department Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced nearly $17 million in funding over the next three years for research and development projects to advance hydropower technology. Sixteen projects in 11 states were selected through a competitive grant process for their ability to contribute to the development of innovative ...
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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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Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and Army Corps of Engineers Renew Five-Year Partnership to Advance Hydropower
The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of the Army for Civil Works announced today that the three agencies have extended their partnership to advance hydropower development for an additional five years. The renewal agreement signed today commits the agencies to a specific, ambitious agenda for hydropower, building upon their Memorandum of Understanding ...
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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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