Posts Tagged ‘hydropower’
28 November 2011
A major hydropower producer in New Zealand may go up for sale as a number of government assets look to be released.
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3 November 2011
A Chinese power company is looking to raise cash through the public markets to invest in its hydropower and wind subsidiaries.
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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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7 September 2011
The US Department of Energy and Department of the Interior have launched a $17m fund to be deployed over the next three years for research and development projects to advance hydropower.
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16 August 2011
Hydropower investor SN Power has entered into a $440m agreement to acquire a majority shareholding in Brazilian renewable power company Desenvix.
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16 August 2011
The board of directors for Russia’s largest electricity producer RusHydro have approved plans to set up a new research company called the Innovation Centre of Tidal and Wave Energy.
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22 June 2011
Brazilian hydropower giant Companhia Paranaense de Energia has made a strategic move into the wind sector through the partial acquisition of four wind farms.
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5 May 2011
Engineering and power giant Alstom has opened a factory in India, which will help it target the country's growing hydropower sector.
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24 March 2011
The president and CEO of Voith Hydro, Kevin Frank, has announced the company’s strong support for the Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011, legislation that would spur hydro deployment and keep energy prices low.
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2 December 2010
Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power has entered into a £4m contract for its next-generation Oyster wave energy device to be built in Scotland by fabrication contractor Burntisland Fabrications.
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30 November 2010
Power equipment and service provider Alstom has been chosen by Enerjisa Power Generation to build and commission the electro-mechanical equipment for the Arkun hydropower plant in Turkey.
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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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5 November 2010
Manufacturing giant Alstom has inaugurated a €110m carbon-neutral factory to cement its position in the Chinese hydropower market, despite registering a low order intake in its power sector for the first half of fiscal 2010/2011.
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9 August 2010
Scottish & Southern Energy-backed hydroelectric company Green Highlands Renewables will explore small-scale hydro schemes in Scotland’s northwest Highlands, it was announced today.
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26 July 2010
Scottish and Southern Energy has appointed private wastewater, energy and natural resource project developer MWH to provide engineering and technical consultancy services for two major pumped storage hydropower schemes proposed in Scotland.
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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
AWS Ocean Energy has received £1.39m grant from the £15m Scottish funding round, which it said will be used to further develop its AWS-III device, a doughnut-shaped multi-cell surface-floating wave power system.
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6 July 2010
Scotland has awarded about £15m in a series of grants designed to help develop emerging energy technologies and improve the operation of marine renewable energy devices.
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7 June 2010
Hydropower is currently the world's largest renewable source of power generation, accounting for around 20 per cent of the world's total electricity supply, a new report has shown.
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1 June 2010
Energy utility Enel is to construct an 84MW hydroelectric project in Guatemala, in conjunction with Italian public-private holding company Simest, in an investment totalling €185m.
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