New Zealand generators say that wind rather than hydro power projects are an immediate focus in the aftermath of their decisions to halt hydro plans on the West Coast of the South Island.

Meridian Energy is defending the high price of its South Island hydro power.

The state-owned generator and retailer appears to be the company whose recent management of southern wholesale power prices will be of most interest to the Electricity Authority.

Costa Rica's installed private generation capacity last year rose 14% to 374MW from 2010, according to statistics from public services regulator Aresep.

The 374MW (205MW hydro, 100MW wind, 40MW thermo, 29.6MW geothermal) represent 14.1% of the country's installed capacity of 2.65GW at end-2011 that rose 1.39% from the year before.

Federal regulators have cleared a Kauai company to begin work on a hydroelectric power proj­ect along the Kokee Ditch irrigation canal, but the proj­ect's developers still need the support of the local electric utility.

Developers of the proposed 5.3-megawatt Puu Lua Hydropower Proj­ect on Kauai's west side received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last month in a ruling that gives the proj­ect priority over another hydroelectric facility planned for the Kokee Ditch backed by the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative.

Wind energy developer AlliancePower has selected RMT, a renewable energy engineering, procurement and construction contractor, to design and construct the 67-MW Colorado Highlands Wind project.

According to a release, the project is located in Logan County, Colorado.

The following information was released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA):

Electricity storage technologies that can operate on timescales such as hours or days are often deployed at specific times of day to take advantage of variations in the price of electricity (see chart above, right). Storage operators can buy electricity when prices are lower (overnight or on weekends), store it, and then discharge or deliver it later, selling the stored electricity when prices are higher (daytime, weekdays). Following a previous article introducing electricity storage technologies and functions, this article focuses on technologies that operate on these longer timescales, or energy management technologies, and their two overarching benefits to the electric power system: flattening the daily load shape (see chart above, left) and integrating variable generation like wind.

Australia, May 22 -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Tokyo, has filed an application (2010271484) on Oct. 29, 2010, for 'Control system of wind power generator, wind farm, and method for controlling wind power generator.'

Inventor(s): Takumi Nakashima, Masayuki Hashimoto, Akira Yasugi, Tsuyoshi Wakasa and Hisanobu Shinoda Application Status: Filed The original document can be viewed at: http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/applicationDetails.do?applicationNo=2010271484 For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com

The following information was released by the Scottish Government:

First Minister Alex Salmond

7-Fjellskonferansen

'Scotland's renewables revolution'

Bergen , Norway

May 14, 2012

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I am delighted to be here at this very prestigious conference and particularly pleased to be speaking here in the Grieghallen.

This auditorium, and the Grieg name, is emblematic of the strong ties of diplomacy, trade and friendship which have existed between Norway and Scotland for generations.

As many of you will know, Edvard Grieg's great grandfather, Alexander Greig - as he was then known then - came to Bergen from Scotland in the 1770s, and founded a family business which traded lobster and dried fish across the North Sea.

CESC Limited has acquired the entire equity shares of Pachi Hydro Power Projects, Ltd. (PHPP) from Indiabulls Group. All the entities involved in the transaction are based in India.

Concurrently, CESC Limited has also acquired the entire equity shares of Papu Hydropower Projects Limited (PHPL) from Indiabulls Group.

CESC Limited is engaged in the business of generation and distribution of electricity. Indiabulls Group is a diversified business group with business interests in power, financial services, real estate and infrastructure sectors.

PHPP is a special-purpose vehicle established to undertake the 56 MW Phangchung hydro electric project in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. PHPL is a developer and operator of 90 MW Papu hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Surbhi Sharma:

With the world going gaga about environment friendly technology to suffice our daily needs, Scotland is not far behind. Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) has conducted a test on an immersed turbine which can be utilized to harness tidal power to produce electricity. This turbine coined as 'Andritz Hydro Hammerfest' has successfully completed its testing period in northern isles of Orkney - in the island of Eday, This will prove to an encouraging step in Scotland's idea to go green by generating electricity from tidal power as part of the tidal power initiative.

BHUBANESWAR, May 20 -- From Sunday, there will be scheduled power cuts adding to the woes of the people already reeling from sweltering heat.

As such with mercury soaring and the summer becoming harsher, frequent load-shedding and long-duration of unscheduled power cuts across the State have made life miserable.

The last time Tim Hudak campaigned to be premier, he promised to lower hydro bills in two tantalizing ways:

First, he'd take the HST off hydro. Second, cancel that annoying "debt retirement charge" on your monthly electricity bills.

But Hudak's hard sell failed to light up his 2011 election. Now, the Tory leader is plotting new ways to win the next campaign - reversing the polarity of his failed energy platform with more electrifying promises.

The capacity to produce electricity from wind power in Japan increased about fivefold to 2.5 million kilowatts over the past decade, people familiar with the matter said Saturday.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 18 -- Airgenesis, Wheatland, Wyo., has been assigned a patent (8,178,991) developed by Danny J. Smith, Wheatland, Wyo., for a "wind power generation system."

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Wyoming.

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Airgenesis Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 18 -- Airgenesis, Wheatland, Wyo., has been assigned a patent (8,178,991) developed by Danny J. Smith, Wheatland, Wyo., for a "wind power generation system."

Lucknow, May 17 -- Faced with a scorching summer and a looming power crisis, the Uttar Pradesh government Thursday announced that two new thermal power units - unit 9 of 250 MW Harduaganj power station and unit 5 of the 250 MW Parichha project - would be made operational next month.

Kolkata, May 16 -- Power utility CESC Limited, the flagship company of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, today announced its plans to expand hydel power capacity, taking over two hydro-electric power projects in Arunachal Pradesh.

A day after he released his party's latest policy statement on electricity prices, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak kicked off a follow-up tour this morning in Mississauga. Hudak will tour Canus Industries, a furniture wholesaler on Annagem Blvd., before hosting a press conference just before noon. Speaking to reporters yesterday about his "white paper" on the soaring cost of power, Hudak said Ontario can slow the rise in electricity prices by going back to former premier Mike Harris' plan to sell off stakes in Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One. Hudak is also pushing for a special industrial electricity rate after 300,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the recent recession.

Ontario can slow the rise in electricity prices by going back to former premier Mike Harris's plan to sell off stakes in Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said Tuesday.