Hydropower

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SJVN Signs Loan Agreement to Advance 900 MW Arun 3 Hydroelectric

SJVN Arun-3 Power Development Company, a subsidiary of SJVN Limited in Nepal, has signed term loan documents for an INR6,334,000,000 ($84.85 million) loan to fu…

Hydropower Plant

Greenland's Huge Meltwater Waterfalls Generate Massive Hydropower

The surface of the Greenland ice sheet is melting, creating a network of ephemeral rivers and waterfalls that scientists say produces more hydropower than the c…

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Hydro Production Likely to Rise in Pacific Northwest, EIA Says

With “mixed water supply conditions” in the Pacific Northwest, hydroelectric production should rise in 2022.

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Lawmaker Aims to Stimulate Small Hydro Projects in Brazil

Brazil’s federal lawmaker Lafayette de Andrada, of the government-allied Republicanos party in Minas Gerais state, is working to unlock and stimulate the deplo…

Pumped Storage

Construction Begins on 3.5GWh Gran Canaria Pumped Hydro Plant; Progress on 18GWh More PHES

Construction has started on a 3.5GWh pumped hydro plant in Gran Canaria, Spain, and progress has been made on two other projects totalling 18GWh of storage in m…

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Swiss Federal Council to Set up Hydroelectric Reserve by Winter 2022/2023

To strengthen security of supply, the Swiss Federal Council has adopted measures to set up a hydroelectric reserve and has instructed the Federal Department for…

Hydrogen Production

Study Launches to Produce Hydrogen from Hydropower in Paraguay

Canadian company NeoGreen Hydrogen Corporation has signed an agreement with the Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), to cooperate in developing comm…

India

Indus Waters Treaty: Pakistan, India to Discuss Hydropower Projects

New Delhi and Islamabad are set to start talks at the PCIW level under Indus Waters Treaty.

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Ethiopia Turns on the Turbines at Giant Nile Hydropower Plant

Ethiopia began producing electricity on Sunday from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a multi-billion-dollar hydropower plant on the River Nile that n…

Pumped Storage

ILI Group to Develop 1.5GW Pumped Storage Hydro Project

Clean energy developer ILI Group has begun the initial planning phase for a new pumped storage hydro project in Scotland.

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Guangdong No. 2 Hydropower Soars After Joining USD2.6 Billion New Energy Project

Shares of Guangdong No. 2 Hydropower Engineering surged nearly 10 percent after the renewable energy construction engineering company said it will participate i…

Hydro Generator Unit

Three Gorges Crosses 100b kWh Power Generation Mark in 2021

The Three Gorges Power Station generated a total of 103.649 billion kWh electricity as of 12:00 a.m. December 31, 2021, crossing the 100 billion mark again, Chi…

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VerdErg Launches New Low-Cost Micro Hydropower Product

VerdErg Renewable Energy has launched the concept development of VETT-in-a-Box, a new ‘plug & play’ micro hydropower system for generating electricity from sm…

Hydropower Sustainability Fund Applications Open to over 40 Countries

Hydropower project developers and operators from over 40 countries can apply for a sustainability fund backed by the Swiss government, along with the Internatio…

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Swiss Sustainability Fund Guides Hydropower Developers Towards Sustainability

​The sustainability fund is patronized by the Swiss government. Apart from the sovereign’s backing, the fund has the support of a few other eminent institutes…