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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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UN climate panel chair calls for `enlightenment`
The head of the United Nations scientific panel on climate change urged diplomats and scientists to show "enlightenment" Monday, as they began a weeklong meeting aimed at spelling out in plain terms what options the world has if it wants to prevent catastrophic global warming. Delegates at the closed-doors meeting in Berlin need to tackle a number of sensitive issues, including how best to cut ...
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ANDRITZ to equip two hydropower stations in East Asia
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received contracts from Vietnam and South Korea to supply electromechanical equipment for hydropower stations with a total value of around 65 million euros. VNECO Hoi Xuan Investment and Electricity Construction has awarded ANDRITZ HYDRO an order for the design, delivery, installation, and commissioning of three bulb turbines and ...
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Renewable Energy is Growing in the UNECE Region, But Uptake is Lagging Far Behind Targets and Ambitions
In 2014, the UNECE region accounted for 42% of global GDP, 40% of the world’s total primary energy supply and 34% of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion. It is the only region which has substantially increased the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix in the last years. Installed capacity from renewable energy increased to 869 GW in 2016 in the UNECE countries. This ...
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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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A New State of Mine at CIM 2017 (Canadian Institute of Mining)
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Small hydropower deserves more support
With the right support, small-scale hydropower could be a cheap and clean fuel for development, says energy advisor Teodoro Sanchez. During the past three decades, hydropower plants have been criticised for their environmental impact. But although large-scale plants have impacts, small hydro systems have no need for large dams, roads and other major infrastructure. In fact, most such plants are ...
By SciDev.Net
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Pöyry supervises the construction of the Xayaburi hydropower project as Government of Lao Engineer
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By Pöyry PLC
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ORNL scientists generate landmark DOE hydropower report
For the first time, industry and policymakers have a comprehensive report detailing the U.S. hydropower fleet’s 2,198 plants that provide about 7 percent of the nation’s electricity. The 98-page report by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers Rocio Uria-Martinez, Patrick O’Connor and Megan Johnson is a resource that describes key features of ...
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