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US independent power provider Hydro Alternative Energy is in talks with the City of Durban on plans to develop a world-first project that would harvest hydrokinetic energy from the fast-flowing Agulhas current off South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal coastline ...

A proposal by Assemblyman David Valadao, R-Hanford, would have allowed utilities to include hydroelectric power from large-scale facilities when calculating their renewable energy percentage. That would have created an incentive to build new ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nimbus Data Systems today announced that Mitsubishi Power Systems, a global leader in power generation solutions, has selected the award-winning Nimbus S-Class multiprotocol flash memory platform to accelerate its SAP...

Brazil's Eletrobras Eletrosul has started-up operations of the first generation unit at the Passo São João hydroelectric plant in Rio Grande do Sul, with the second unit expected to come online this month. The move marks the state-owned company's ...

Railway Gazette reported that KiwiRail has installed a small hydroelectric plant and solar panels to power signals and lighting at the Tiroroa passing loop. The equipment replaces two diesel generators. These started automatically as a train approached ...

A reservoir can also generate hydroelectric power if water is pumped up to a height and allowed to cascade downwards. The Ministry of National Development is to look at the costs and benefits of clustering the facilities – which also include ...

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JHRH includes seven small hydroelectric plants, one wind farm and one co-generation plant with a total gross capacity of 379 MW. Total gross capacity of the plants to be sold is 2727 MW, or 717 MW on an ownership-adjusted basis.

First, there was the scathing criticism about the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative's efforts to build hydroelectric plants on Kauai to provide low cost, energy to local residents. To top it off, The Garden Island, Kauai's main newspaper got the ...

by White & Case LLP on 5/7/2012 The Japanese government is poised to kick-start the renewable energy industry by establishing high feed-in tariffs for solar, wind, geothermal, small-scale hydro and biomass. Following the 3.11 nuclear crisis, ...

By Michael Harris, Online Editor, HydroWorld.com Washington, DC A report released by the Center for International Environmental Law suggests that hydroelectric development in the Andean Amazon could have a significant, negative environmental impact.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc. ("HAE" or the "Company"), an emerging independent power provider ("IPP"), announced today it has received broad based ...

KUALA LUMPUR: State-owned Sarawak Hidro Sdn Bhd, the chief promoter of the problem-plagued Bakun hydroelectric dam, is faced with claims of more than RM820 million, raising the cost of what already ranks as one of the country's most expensive ...

Just three days after President Benigno Aquino III led the ceremonial switch-on of the much-touted mini-hydroelectric plants of Sunwest Water and Electric Co. here, the entire Catanduanes grid began experiencing six-hour brownouts beginning Saturday when a bunker-fuel generating set conked out and the three hydro power plants on stream failed to deliver due to low water levels