Kyrgyzstan has launched a $200 million hydroelectric power station, wire services reported. The hydro project is located on Kyrgyzstan's Naryn River.
Construction has begun on Russia's Nizhnyaya Bureya hydropower plant, news services reported. The RusHydro hydropower plant will have four generating units with the total power output of 320 MW.
The 2,400-MW HidroItuango hydropower project being developed by the local development agency of Colombia's Antioquia department (IDEA) and Medellin-based multi-utility EPM is progressing on schedule, with construction expected to begin in 2013, a spokesperson for project developers told wire services.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed the concession contract for the construction of the 11,200-MW Belo Monte hydropower plant in Brazil's Amazon, according to news services.
Electricity sector leaders in Laos have said the country will build at least two hydropower plants every year until 2020, according to wire reports from the region.
Alcoa has kicked off a $110 million modernization project at Cheoah dam and hydropower plant, one of four hydroelectric power facilities that make up Alcoa Power Generating Inc.'s Tapoco Project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Andritz Hydro Corp. an $8.3 million contract to replace equipment in the Snake River excitation system, encompassing exciters in three hydropower projects in Washington.
New Jersey-based Princeton Power Systems, a manufacturer of advanced power conversion products and alternative energy systems, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research contract from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The project will involve the development of an advanced power conversion system to be used in commercial tidal, wave and related hydropower applications, PPS reported.
Ocean Renewable Power Company, a Maine-based marine hydropower firm, announced that its Beta Power System has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents at its Cobscook Bay site in Eastport, Maine.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced it has filed a request with state regulators for funding to study the feasibility of building a pumped-storage hydro project in the Mokelumne River watershed in Amador County.
The first of two new turbines for Duke Energy's Jocassee pumped-storage hydro station has arrived in the Salem, S.C., area, with the second expected to arrive in early September, local media reported.
A proposed southeast Alaska small hydropower project has secured the funding necessary to begin construction, according to reports from local media.
Operations have begun at the Gissarak hydro plant in the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan, according to wire reports.
