Hydroelectric power news articles 
Climate Change Minister encourages skills for the Green Deal and launches The Green Deal Skills Alliance
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government’s flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in instalments on the energy bill. The Green Deal... [more]
Carbon free energy system presented at Energy Roadmap 2050
In March 2011, the European Commission published the overall decarbonisation roadmap covering the whole economy. All sectors, power generation, transport, residential, industry and agriculture, were analysed. The Commission has also been preparing sectoral roadmaps, among which the Energy Roadmap 2050 is the last one, focusing on the whole energy sector. In order to cut emissions by over 80% by 2050, Europe's energy production will have to be... [more]
Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacen... [more]
As a result of high costs, low demand, and recent disasters, global nuclear generation capacity falls
The latest Vital Signs Online (VSO) report from the Worldwatch Institute indicates that due to increasing costs of production, a slowed demand for electricity, and fresh memories of disaster in Japan, production of nuclear power fell in 2011. Despite reaching record levels the previous year, global installed nuclear capacity, the potential power generation from all existing plants, declined to 366.5 gigawatts (GW) in 2011, from 375.5 GW at the... [more]
The new power mix in Germany – what does it mean for the rest of Europe?
In the wake of Fukushima disaster, energy experts now agree that securing Europe’s future electricity supply will require an increasing convergence between existing fossil fuel sources and the fast-growing renewable generation sector. Nowhere is this fusing of interests required more than in Germany, in the light of the government’s decision to phase out all nuclear power by 2022. The case for integration is now compelling and is something that a... [more]
Other Hydroelectric power news and reviews
China Hydroelectric Corporation Receives New Tariff Increases for Power Projects in Yunnan and Fujian Provinces
NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Hydroelectric Corporation (NYSE: CHC, CHCWS) ("China Hydroelectric" or the "Company"), an owner, developer and operator of small hydroelectric power projects in the People's Republic of China ("China"), today announced the...
Patagonia Dams: The Polarities Of Hydroelectric Power And Environmental Preservation
Far from the politics of Santiago and within eyeshot of each other are two projects that epitomize a growing divide in Chile: the $10 billion HidroAysen dam scheme and the proposed Patagonia National Park.
NIPSCO proposes green power rate program
MERRILLVILLE — Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) on Tuesday announced a proposal for a program that would allow customers to designate a portion, or all of their monthly electric usage to be attributable to power generated by renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and hydroelectric power.
Panama's Energy Firms Plan 720 Megawatts of Hydroelectric Power, an Industrial Info News Alert
CORDOBA, ARGENTINA-- - Researched by Industrial Info Resources Latin America -- Panama plans to increase installed capacity of hydroelectric power generation by 720 megawatts with 30 new hydropower plants. ...
China Hydroelectric Corporation Receives Tariff Increases in Fujian Province
NEW YORK, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Hydroelectric Corporation (NYSE: CHC, CHCWS) ("China Hydroelectric" or the "Company"), an owner, developer and operator of small hydroelectric power projects in the People's Republic of China ("China"), today...
ABB Wins $20M Swiss Order To Boost Efficiency Of Hydroelectric Power Plants
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has received orders worth around $20M from two power utilities managed by Axpo, a leading Swiss power utility, to refurbish the generators at two of its hydroelectric power plants
China Hydroelectric Corporation Files Fiscal 2011 Annual Report on Form 20-F with the SEC
NEW YORK, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Hydroelectric Corporation (NYSE: CHC, CHCWS) (the "Company"), an owner, developer and operator of small hydroelectric power projects ...
Agus, Pulangi plants may be privatized 'to Mindanaoans'
MANILA, Philippines - The privatization of the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric power plants as part of efforts to solve the power shortage in Mindanao is still in the cards despite opposition from several groups and restrictions under law, President Aquino said Monday, May 14. " Ang idea doon , kung ipa -privatize, i -privatize sa ...
CESC acquires two hydroelectric projects
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) Power utility CESC Ltd, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, Wednesday said it had entered into an agreement to take over two hydroelectric power projects with an aggregate capacity of 146 MW in Arunachal Pradesh.
Pulangi power plant repair completed; blackout lessened
ZAMBOANGA CITY — The rehabilitation of the Pulangi 4 hydroelectric power plant in Bukidnon has finally been completed, and was initialing supplying 200 megawatts (MW) of its 255-MW installed capacity to the entire Mindanao grid as of Thursday.
