hydro
21 January 2011
Toshiba’s Chinese hydropower subsidiary Toshiba Hydro Power has won a contract to supply two hydroelectric generators to Datang Guanyinyang Hydro Power Development.
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17 January 2011
The Scottish government has given RWE npower renewables approval to build a 4.5MW hydropower project in Sutherland that is slated to power around 2,500 homes.
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5 January 2011
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has financed the development of seven hydro plants in Macedonia through the provision of a €6m loan, representing its first private sector energy investment in the country.
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21 December 2010
Water technology solutions company Amiad Filtration Systems has completed the first stage of its waste-free filtration system at an underground liquid hydrogen storage facility in France.
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20 December 2010
Renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has been appointed as the construction hydrological support team at Drone Hill Wind Farm in Scotland by AES Wind Generation.
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17 December 2010
US-based company Northern Pass Transmission and HQ Hydro Renewable Energy have filed a transmission service agreement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to develop a transmission line to import hydroelectricity from Québec, Canada to New England in the US.
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16 December 2010
Canada-based renewable energy developer BluEarth has raised more than $160m from a series of investors including ARC Financial, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and other backers.
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15 December 2010
Power plant Alstom has secured a €70m contract that will see it supply a large volume of power generator units to the China Datang group for incorporation into the new Guanyinyan hydropower station on the Jinsha River in China’s Yunnan province.
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7 December 2010
Centurion Private Equity has invested $5m in Latin America-based clean energy company Minerco Resources through a flexible equity funding facility that will fund its development of hydroelectric projects.
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7 December 2010
South Africa’s government has identified around 20GW of pure renewable energy capacity and 4GW of co-generation technologies that may form part of its renewable energy procurement plan under the region’s feed-in tariff programme.
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29 November 2010
Eastern Europe-focused renewable energy developer Reservoir Capital has raised more than $3m through a share offering, which it will use to support feasibility studies on its Brodarevo hydroelectric projects in south-west Serbia.
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24 November 2010
The long-term energy plan detailed by the Canadian province of Ontario sets the course for a clean energy revolution and will create thousands of jobs in the region, according to its government.
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19 November 2010
Global vertically-integrated photovoltaic provider Silfab has acquired ten per cent of the share capital of Idrofin, an Italy-based hydropower plant developer that targets the Eastern European region.
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9 November 2010
Infrastructure private equity investor 3i has gained a minority stake in GVK Energy, a subsidiary of Indian developer GVK Power and Infrastructure, with a $182m investment.
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