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  1. Voith Hydro Secures Contract for Generators and Turbines at Red Rock Hydroelectric Facility; Project Construction will begin in 2013 at the Red Rock Dam on the Des Moines River in Iowa

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    Tue, 24 Apr 2012

    Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The contract awarded today comes as two of Voith's other major domestic new hydro projects - AMP's Ohio River Projects and the Holtwood Hydroelectric Project - are under construction. Within the last

  2. Venezuela invests in large-scale hydro

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    Mon, 20 Sep 2010

    according a report in El Nacional. Up to now, the Venezuelan government has been reticent in the construction of new hydro projects because of their perceived impact on the environment. However, the necessity to satisfy the population’s electricity

  1. Hydroelectricity: The Versatile Renewable

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    Mon, 1 Jun 2009

    Norm Bishop, vice president for the hydro dams market sector of MWH, a Colorado-based firm that helps develop new hydro projects and update existing ones. In addition to the demand for renewables and the rising costs of fossil fuels, Bishop

  2. Tractebel to invest $248m in 2007 in Brazil, Uruguay

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    Tue, 20 Mar 2007

    invest 516m reais ($248m) in 2007. Investments will go mostly to expanding installed capacity by building two new hydro projects and studying new coal and biomass-fired generation plants, according to chief financial officer Marc Verstraete

  3. BC Hydro awards energy contracts

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    Fri, 28 Jul 2006

    Power, awarding 38 contracts to independent power producers throughout the province with the majority going to new hydro projects . According to BC Hydro, the projects will help to meet growing demand for electricity in the region by adding

  4. RusHydro: First new hydro -power unit put into operation at Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP

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    Tue, 20 Dec 2011

    HYDR; MICEX and LSE, RSHYY; OTCQX) announces that the new hydro -power unit #1 has been put into industrial operation at ..... characteristics, meeting all reliability and safety requirements. The new hydro -power units' lifespan will be extended up to 40 years

  5. New hydro plant in Norway features equipment from GE Hydro

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    Mon, 3 Mar 2003

    OSLO, Norway, March 3, 2003 -- GE Hydro has supplied a new hydro turbine and additional equipment to Tysseland Kraftlag AS, a consortium of local Norwegian landowners, for a new hydroelectric

  6. Aneel calls for new hydro reservoirs to promote renewable energy growth

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    Wed, 9 May 2012

    Brazilian power regulator Aneel says environmental restrictions on hydroelectric dams are limiting the nation's potential to expand its renewable energy sector. Speaking at the 2nd BNamericas Hydro Power Summit Latin America in São Paulo on Wednesday, Aneel's general director Nelson Hubner said ...

  7. Quebec report proposes 25 new hydro power stations

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    Thu, 16 Jul 2009

    A new report says that Quebec could bring in up to C$9.5 billion ($8.5 billion) a year by reversing the flow of three rivers to generate power from as many as 25 dams and export water to the United States.

  8. Philippines plans new hydro plant

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    Mon, 30 Apr 2007

    Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) has announced plans to build another hydroelectric power plant in Mindanao at a cost of about $250m to help prevent a looming energy crisis in the country's second-biggest island.