The Aboitiz Group plans to work with students from the engineering and architecture division of the Ateneo de Davao University to help boost the efficiency of five hydropower projects operating under Aboitiz subsidiary Hedcor Inc.

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced it will supply more than $2.5 million in electrical products and services to upgrade the Hartwell Dam hydroelectric power plant. Eaton obtained the contract through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah, Ga., office.

British Columbia has granted environmental approval to BC Hydro's plan to add 1,000 megawatts of generating capacity to its Mica Dam hydropower project on the Columbia River.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for replacement transformers and and site modifications at the 517.8-MW Garrison Dam hydro project on the Missouri River in Garrison, N.D.

Ghana's Volta River Authority awarded China's Sinohydro Corporation Limited a US$5.7 million contract for rehabilitation work on cranes and penstocks of the 1,062-MW Akosombo hydroelectric project.

Norway utility Statkraft will invest more than NOK 1 billion (US$168.48 million) upgrading hydropower facilities and preparing new hydro projects to replace aging plants, the company announced.

The Corps of Engineers awarded Voith Hydro Inc. a contract to design and supply two advanced turbines for the 603-MW Ice Harbor hydroelectric project on Washington’s lower Snake River.

The contractor responsible for the rehabilitation of seven generating units at the Rocky Reach hydro project on the Columbia River in Washington agreed to pay to correct design problems, media reported.

The rehabilitation of the first of three units at the Ambuklao hydroelectric power plant, purchased from the Philippine government by a joint venture, will be completed in September, company officials reported.

The Government of Ukraine and the World Bank signed a loan agreement for additional financing to the Hydropower Rehabilitation Project in the amount of US$ 60 million, the World Bank reported.

Engineering firm Sheffield Forgemasters International is to supply components to Russia's damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant.

Reivax Automation and Control has been awarded a contract with Endesa Chile for the modernization of the excitation systems and speed governor control of five hydro plants of the Chilean group, Reivax reported.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $258,017contract to Alstom Hydro for stator repair on Generator G-19 in the Third Power Plant of the 6,809-MW Grand Coulee hydroelectric project in Washington.

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) continues its Life Extension and Modernization (LEM) Program at the St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project, with three-quarters of the work complete.

A 90-ton turbine runner replaced during an upgrade of the Blenheim-Gilboa pumped-storage hydroelectric project has found a new home outside the New York Power Authority’s Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center.