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  1. Work starts on Kaprun pump storage plant

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    Tue, 4 Jul 2006

    4 July 2006 - Austria's Verbund is starting construction of the new peak current power plant "Limberg II". Today, Tuesday, is the groundbreaking ceremony in the lower Kaprun Valley for the €365m pumped storage power plant.

  2. Alstom signs MoU with RusHydro for development of hydropower in Russia

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    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    potential first case, Alstom and RusHydro have agreed to consider how they could cooperate on the modernization of the Kubanski cascade hydropower complex in the south of Russia and the new pump storage plant (2 x 70 MW) at Zelenchuk.

  1. Scottish Power calls for nuclear power U-turn, seeks hydropower as back-up to wind

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    Thu, 21 May 2009

    several wind farms in Spain, was extending one pump - storage plant near Valencia and building a new one in northern Spain. The company has one pump - storage plant in Scotland, the 400 MW Cruachan power station

  2. HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT IN LIMBO

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    Thu, 8 Dec 2011

    federal regulators said they would not reconsider their rejection of the proposal. The project, called Lake Elsinore Advanced Pump Storage , or LEAPS, includes pumps at the lake and a water-storage facility, dam and transmission line in the mountains above

  3. Alstom to equip Switzerland's Nant de Drance hydropower station

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    Tue, 5 May 2009

    Drance hydropower station, near Finhaut in the southwestern Canton Valais of Switzerland, with its first variable speed pump storage power plant. This partner project, between Swiss energy provider Alpiq, Forces Motrices Valaisannes (FMV) and Swiss

  4. SCOTLAND'S RENEWABLES REVOLUTION

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    Mon, 21 May 2012

    have a production surplus, and enabling energy from your pump storage sites to be transmitted to Scotland when required. Initial ..... demonstrated by the Sognfjord aluminium smelter and the Ben Cruachan pump storage scheme, and, as is again apparent, in the plans for the

  5. NORWAY AND SCOTLAND KEY TO EUROPE'S GREEN ENERGY FUTURE

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    Mon, 14 May 2012

    would enable flows of energy from Scotland to Norwegian pump storage hydro schemes during periods of high renewable production ..... freezing weather that may restrict the capacity of pump storage hydro. Copyright 2012 States News Service

  6. First round of funding for hydroelectric project completed

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    Wed, 18 Apr 2012

    Green Planet Group Inc. has completed the first round of financing for its $1.2 billion, 800 MW Pump Storage hydroelectric Project in Arizona. Alabama-based Porter Capital Corp. agreed to provide the funds to establish a security deposit

  7. Interview with Mr Francois Carpentier

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    Tue, 24 Apr 2012

    Small hydro projects will not be able to cater to the huge demand. As such, medium to large hydro projects, in addition to pump storage projects will be the future options. Also, managing the balance between energy production and consumption levels has become

  8. LADWP receives documents to expand transmission line

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    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    approximately 75 miles from the Mojave Desert in south to the . It will extend another 12 miles west to the Castaic Power Plant, a pump - storage generating facility. Other components of the BRRTP include: Expanding the existing Barren Ridge Switching Station, located