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Latin America Hydro News

Alstom to supply turbines and generators to Colombian hydropower project

11/08/2012 Alstom has been awarded a contract worth around €170 million ($216.3 mil...

License approved for 3.3 GW hydroelectric plant in Brazil

10/23/2012 Brazil's environmental regulator Ibama has granted an operating license ...

GDF Suez opens 1 GW hydroelectric power plant in Brazil

10/17/2012 GDF Suez, through its subsidiary Tractebel Energia, inaugurated a 1,087 ...

Investments in clean energy down in third quarter, may hit 8-year low

10/09/2012 Global investment in clean energy totaled $56.6 billion in the third qua...

Alstom to supply equipment for hydropower project in Brazil

10/01/2012 Alstom has signed a contract with Neoenergia for the supply of three Kap...

Brazil to invest $132bn in renewables and transmission expansions

09/26/2012 The Brazilian government said it will invest 269 billion reals ($132.2 b...

Alstom unit to supply equipment for hydro project in Colombia

09/17/2012 Colombia-based utility EPM awarded Alstom Brasil Energia e Transporte a ...

Sixth turbine starts up at hydroelectric power plant in Brazil

09/11/2012 Brazil's power regulator Aneel has approved the startup of a sixth gener...

Hydroelectric power plant in Colombia secures financing

09/10/2012 Colombian state power generator Isagen has secured a $73 million credit ...

Work to resume at Brazil's 11.2 GW Belo Monte electric plant

09/04/2012 Just two weeks after a federal court shut down progress on the 11.2-GW B...