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Energy Department report finds potential to increase clean hydroelectric power
Energy Department report finds potential to increase clean hydroelectric power The U.S. Energy Department said to day that a report on a renewable energy resource assessment finds the potential to...
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Rurelec makes new hydropower acquisition in Peru
Rurelec makes new hydropower acquisition in Peru Rurelec has announced a further investment in Peru, acquiring the 255 MegaWatt Santa Rita run-of-river hydro development project. The news follows the...
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Voith Hydro secures contract for generators and turbines at Red Rock...
Voith Hydro secures contract for generators and turbines at Red Rock Hydroelectric facility From PRNewswire via Yahoo FInance, Voith Hydro announced today that it has received the contract to provide...
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Many along Mekong River concerned about hydropower expansion
Many along Mekong River concerned about hydropower expansion Rick Valenzuela, writing for the Voice of America from Taikek, Laos in Southeast Asia, says a Thai company says it is going ahead with...
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Assessing the untapped potential of hydropower
Assessing the untapped potential of hydropower An inventory survey of existing dams in the United States by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that 54,000 have some potential for generating...
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Iran company to renovate Syrian hydropower plants, Press TV says
Iran company to renovate Syrian hydropower plants, Press TV says At Bloomberg Ladane Nasseri reports that a privately owned Iranian company, Safa Nicu Sepahan Co., reached an agreement with Syria’s...
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Chile supreme court halts Patagonia dam project
Chile supreme court halts Patagonia dam project According to AFP, “Chile’s supreme court has halted construction on the Rio Cuervohydroelectric project in the country’s remote and pristine Patagonia...
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Bridgewater Hydro Station opens on Catawba River
Bridgewater Hydro Station opens on Catawba River Duke Energy officially opened its new hydroelectric power station on the Catawba River in Burke and McDowell counties near Morgan, N.C., reports Mary...
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Dam project threatens a way of life in Peru
Dam project threatens a way of life in Peru Aaron Nelson at the New York Times reports from Boca Sanibeni, Peru on a dam project that could threaten the indigenous Ashaninkas’ tribe, which is trying to...
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Richland nuclear plant increases power production
Richland nuclear plant increases power production Improvements to a nuclear plant near Richland, Wash. is generating more power for residents, reports Annette Cary at the Tri-City Herald in Washington...
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East Africa hydroelectric project to get rolling in 2013
The power station’s will be constructed on the border of Tanzania and Rwanda, near Rusumo Falls, located on the Kagera River “The three East African countries planning to use a stalled $360-million,...
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Use and capacity of global hydropower increases
A total of $40–45 billion was invested in large hydropower projects worldwide in 2010 A new report from WorldWatch Institute says global use of hydropower increased more than 5 percent between 2009 and...
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Harvard study: Is wind power overestimated?; Obama fills cabinet posts, and...
A new Harvard study questions the efficacy of wind power as an energy source. The study, Rethinking WInd Power, suggests that real-world generating capacity of wind farms is being overestimated. The...
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