Credit to Author: Una Nowling, PE| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:12:00 +0000
Providing employees with a safe and healthy workplace is paramount. Never dismiss persistent workplace environmental complaints, no matter how “crazy” they may seem. A lone SUV motored through wooded hills
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:39:56 +0000
Officials in Angola announced that the Laúca hydroelectric power station is now fully operational, with Austrian company Andritz wrapping construction of the final 70-MW environmental flow power station at the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:23:18 +0000
Voith Hydro in 2022 replaced four vertical Pelton turbines at Verbund’s 75-year-old 326-GWh Gerlos 1 pumped storage facility in Austria with a first-of-its-kind horizontal six-nozzle Pelton turbine
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:21:55 +0000
The hydropower industry has placed a keen focus on sustainability in recent years. “The San José Declaration on Sustainable Hydropower,” a landmark declaration issued on Sept. 24, 2021, by the hydropower
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:44:02 +0000
Kenya’s government is pinning a nationwide blackout on Aug. 25 to the loss of 270 MW from the 310-MW Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant (LTWP), though the wind generator has […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:05:57 +0000
The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) will for the first time consider “energy policy” among five significant evolving and interdependent risks to grid reliability. In its latest biennial ERO Reliability […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:25:45 +0000
Record-high river levels stemming from Storm Hans, a storm that battered southern Norway this week, have partially destroyed a dam on the Glåma River and inundated Hafslund Eco’s Braskereidfoss hydroelectric […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 04:11:00 +0000
Colombian Dam Site of Major Floating Solar Project. A new solar power system that will float on the reservoir at the Urrá Dam in Colombia is designed to demonstrate that hydroelectric stations dealing with
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:11:00 +0000
In May, U.S. national laboratories Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) partnered with regulated utility Idaho Power to determine the viability of integrating
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:37:20 +0000
Digitalization is now so firmly embedded in the power sector that if participants haven’t yet begun their digital journey, they’ve inherently fallen behind. That was a message repeated at the […]
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