Posts Tagged ‘hydroelectric’
20 April 2012
Latin American small hydro developer Cascade, a subsidiary of utility Rurelec, has agreed to acquire the 255MW Santa Rita project in Peru for $10m.
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20 April 2012
Green Planet Group has completed the first step of funding for an 800MW hydroelectric project in Arizona.
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3 April 2012
Australian company Origin Energy has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Chilean hydroelectric development company Energía Austral, from Xstrata Copper.
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30 March 2012
Finnish energy company Fortum has sold 14 small hydropower plants, with a combined capacity of 22MW, to Koskienergia for around €45m.
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15 March 2012
The Commonwealth Financing Authority of US state Pennsylvania has approved funding worth $15.9m to support ten clean energy projects.
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9 March 2012
Emerging market energy developer Joule Africa and the government of Cameroon have formed a memorandum of understanding to develop a 450MW hydro electric project.
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27 January 2012
UK cleantech consultancy Natural Power has signed a framework agreement with Welsh company Ecology Matters to mutually develop an environmental advisory service.
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11 January 2012
Renewable energy developer the Reservoir Capital Group has completed geotechnical studies for its proposed 58.4MW hydroelectric development in Brodarevo, Serbia.
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4 January 2012
Swedish energy company Vattenfall has partnered with ArcelorMittal, Rhodia and SNCF under the name Force Hydro to bid for hydroelectric concession tenders to be launched in France this year.
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8 December 2011
The Vadafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team has contracted Carbon Neutral Investments (CNI) to offset the its carbon dioxide emissions, creating the first carbon neutral Formula 1 team.
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30 November 2011
French energy company Alstom is set to invest around €6m in the creation of a research facility called the Global Hydro Technology Centre in Brazil.
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9 November 2011
French energy company Alstom has opened a new research centre focussed on hydro electric power in the town of Sorel-Tracy, Canada.
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14 October 2011
US-based alternative energy specialist Onyx Service & Solutions has announced it will look to add international carbon credits to bolster company revenues.
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27 September 2011
A consortium consisting of French energy company Alstom and Brazilian engineering businesses CESBE and Areva Kolblitz has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth €310m from Consorcio Amapa Energia to construct a 373.4MW hydroelectric plant on the Jari river in northern Brazil.
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22 July 2010
Chinese small hydroelectric project developer China Hydroelectric has acquired all of the Minrui hydroelectricity projects in the Chinese province of Yunnan totalling 55.5MW in capacity, for RMB404.9m ($59.3m).
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19 July 2010
The proposed Belo Monte mega dam in Brazil lacks participation investment from the private sector, according to a lobby group.
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6 July 2010
Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power has been awarded more than £3m from the Scottish government to support the development of its next-generation Oyster wave energy device.
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23 June 2010
Canadian electric utility BC Hydro has selected a hydroelectric project in the McBride area of British Columbia to be awarded an electricity purchase agreement under its Clean Power Call initiative.
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9 June 2010
Canadian publicly-traded construction company Aecon's shares jumped by around five per cent yesterday after it secured one of its biggest construction contracts for the Lower Mattagami Hydroelectric Complex in Ontario, Canada, according to Reuters.
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4 June 2010
Following months of negotiations, the Republic of Ecuador's government and China's Export-Import Bank have reached an agreement for an estimated $1.7bn in financing of a hydroelectric power plant in Ecuador, according to reports.
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