China plans to boost its installed hydroelectric power capacity to 300 million kW by 2015 from the current 200 million in an effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to wire reports.
A newly-released report on the World Bank Group's water strategy calls for support for hydropower in developing countries, while urging a more integrated approach to water resources management.
Hydropower generator Run of River Power Inc. has appointed Richard Hopp president and chief executive officer, wire services reported.
Fortis Inc., in partnership with Columbia Power Corp. and Columbia Basin Trust, will construct a 335-MW hydropower generating facility at an estimated cost of $900 million, Fortis announced.
Germany-based Siemens Energy will connect Georgia and Turkey's electricity grids, with the transmission lines sending power from hydropower plants in Georgia to Turkey, wire services reported.
The Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre, a test center for commercial-scale wave and tidal energy hydropower devices, announced it has completed an expansion project, increasing its set of test sites from nine to 12.
Mozambique's government has approved construction of the US$2 billion Mphanda Nkuwa hydropower project on the Zambezi River, with the project slated to begin construction in 2011.
ScottishPower Renewables' Managing Director Keith Anderson joined First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond in Oslo as Norway-based marine hydropower developer Hammerfest Strom announced contracts worth 4 million pounds (US$6.2 million) to construct the first of their advanced HS1000 tidal power turbines in Scotland.
Vermont's two largest utilities announced they have signed a contract to buy hydroelectric power from provincial utility Hydro-Quebec for 26 years.
Marine hydro developer Atlantis Resources Corporation has unveiled the AK1000, the largest and most powerful tidal power turbine ever built.
France's gas and electric utility GDF Suez SA has entered into a merger deal with Britain's International Power. The move would create the world's largest independent power producer, with more than 66,000 megawatts of capacity.
Power and automation technology group ABB has announced the commissioning of the Xiangjiaba-Shanghai project, the world's first ultrahigh-voltage direct current transmission link to go into commercial operation.
The U.S. Department of Energy has designated the Center for Ocean Energy Technology at Florida Atlantic University a national center for ocean energy research and development, naming it the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center, FAU announced.
Following the conclusion of a record-setting HydroVision International 2010 in Charlotte, N.C., a call for abstracts has been announced for HydroVision International 2011. HydroVision International 2011 will take place the week of July 18 in Sacramento, California.
At least eight laborers died and at least two went missing after floodwaters swept through their sleeping quarters at a hydropower project under construction in Nepal, according to wire reports from the region. Some reports indicate that at least nine people were killed.
During a recent Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee hearing on hydropower, Congressman Adrian Smith, R-Neb., introduced the Small-Scale Hydropower Enhancement Act (H.R. 5922). The bill is designed to encourage and promote efforts to produce more hydropower from smaller sources.
Hydropower represents a vast renewable energy resource that has much potential to play a greater role in the renewable energy mix, said Duke Energy's Jim Turner, who delivered a keynote address during the opening keynote session of HydroVision International 2010 in Charlotte N.C.
Indigenous protesters in Brazil's Amazon have occupied the site of a hydropower plant they say has been built on an ancient burial ground, local media and wire services reported.
HydroVision International, the largest annual gathering of hydropower professionals, is set to break attendance records for the event. HydroVision 2010 is located in Charlotte, N.C.
Two security guards were killed Wednesday in a raid on a hydropower plant in southern Russia in which attackers detonated bombs that disabled the plant, wire services reported.
