Credit 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, 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: 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: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:59:58 +0000
Chinese officials on June 25 said the first phase of what is considered the world’s largest combined hydro and solar power plant has entered commercial operation. The Kela hydro/solar plant, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:00:33 +0000
A project to build more than 100 miles of transmission lines, along with multiple substations, to enable the use of more renewable energy in Maine has received support from state […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:23:00 +0000
A breach at the Nova Kakhovka Dam stemming from the destruction of the 351-MW hydroelectric power plant in southern Ukraine on June 6 has triggered massive flooding, prompted an environmental […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 14:12:08 +0000
A new hydroelectric dam in Cameroon is expected to begin producing power by the end of this year, with commercial operation beginning in 2024, according to an official with the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:30:59 +0000
When you study the history of hydropower, you expect to learn about people like British-American engineer James Francis, who developed the first modern hydro turbine in 1849. A testament to his genius is that the Francis turbine continues to be the most widely used water turbine in the world today. Or you assume American inventor […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:57:04 +0000
The first of two 300-MW units being built as part of the expansion of a coal-fired generating station in Zimbabwe has come online. The Zimbabwe Power Co. (ZPC) said the unit began sending electricity to the national grid late on March 20. ZPC in a statement said, “Power will be progressively fed into the grid […]
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