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.

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $322,820 contract under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Suppression Systems, Inc. to replace the New Melones hydro plant’s fire suppression systems.

The Kenya Electricity Generating Company awarded a contract to Austria-based Andritz Hydro to install a third 24-MWturbine and overhaul two others at the utility’s Kindaruma Dam.

Russian equipment supplier Power Machines was awarded a US$7.3 million contract to provide five hydrogenerator stator winding sets for the Macagua 1 hydroelectric plant in Venezuela, Power Machines reported.

The Western Australia government awarded a US$40 million contract for upgrades to the 70-year-old Wellington Dam as part of an ongoing dam remedial works program, the government reported.

The World Bank approved a US$60 million loan for the rehabilitation of three hydroelectric plants in Ukraine.

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $458,534 contract to Peak Hydro Services of Chattanooga, Tenn., to repair draft tube discharge rings at the 86.4-MW Blue Mesa hydroelectric plant.

Construction of a new powerhouse is underway at the Rainbow hydroelectric plant on the Missouri River, about six miles northeast of here.

Climax Portable Machine Tools received a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Corps of Engineers to refurbish the Markland Locks and Dams on the Ohio River. According to Climax, the project will create 30 jobs in Oregon.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded Albuquerque, N.M.-based Gardner Zemke Co. a $26 million contract to replace six transformers at the Grand Coulee Dam project on the Columbia River, about 90 miles west of Spokane, Wash.

BC Hydro has completed the refurbishment of a 700-MW hydropower plant on British Columbia’s Peace River.

The Corps of Engineers has awarded a $9.5 million contract to HDR Engineering Inc. to support the hydroelectric powerhouse and high-voltage switchyard engineering and design activities of its Northwestern Division.

New York Power Authority said it has entered the fourth and final phase of a four-year, $135 million program to modernize and extend the life of the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped-Storage project.

Irish utility ESB Power Generation has awarded a contract to Quartzelec Ltd. to refurbish a 330-KW house hydro set at the Cliff hydropower plant on Erne River in County Donegal.

German utility EnBW laid the foundation stone July 20, 2009, for an expansion of the 105-MW Iffezheim hydroelectric project to make it the largest hydro plant on the Rhine River.