Hydroelectric Power News

North Little Rock will receive up to $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to pay for an intake device to prevent obstructions to the water flowing through the citya s Murray Hydroelectric plant, the federal agency announced Wednesday.

KUCHING, Sat: Sarawak is to accelerate its power generation expansion plan to meet the demand of local industries and also for sale to Peninsular Malaysia, the state Planning and Resource Management Minister II, Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan said today.

Downstream from St. Anthony Falls' wide concrete apron spanning most of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, state and city officials Thursday toured the 10-megawatt hydropower plant being built near the new Interstate 35W bridge.

Hydroelectric plant will make enough to power 7,500 homes - P ower from a new hydroelectric plant on the Mississippi River will produce enough electricity for about 7,500 homes by the end of next year, according to officials who provided an update on the project Thursday.

Democratic state lawmakers and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak are touring a hydroelectric project under construction on the Mississippi River on Thursday.

Up to $30.6 million in economic stimulus funds will be used to finance seven hydroelectric projects nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The International Water Management Institute has urged the Bui Hydro Power Authority, the Volta River Authority and other related Institutions to execute their operations in a transparent, accountable and equitable manner, in order to win the trust of the people living in the communities where they work.

Nov. 02, 2009-- As part of a $12 million order from an electric power company, Rockwell Automation has supplied 15 of 33 new control systems planned for Snowy Hydro Limited, owner and operator of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in Australia.

A 100-year-old hydroelectric project in Boulder could receive up to $1.18 million in federal stimulus money for upgrades and modernization projects.

Approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of a request by PPL Holtwood, LLC, is a significant milestone in the plan to increase generation of clean, renewable energy and improve migratory fish passage, the company said Tuesday .

Rockwell Automation Inc. said Monday that it is supplying new control systems for the upgrade of a hydroelectric power system in Australia under an order valued at $12 million.

That's 19 times as much as the physcists who authored "A Solar Grand Plan" were asking for in order to build a massive solar array to provide most of our electricity by 2050.

A Colorado ranch owner plans to use a federal grant and loan to build a "micro-hydroelectric" plant and sell the power back to a utility.

Nebraska Game & Parks is taking advantage of the Kingsley Dam restoration project; they're killing off every fish in Lake Ogallala, but it's for good reason.

TIRUNELVELI: The Tamil Nadu Assembly Public Accounts Committee has asked Collector M. Jayaraman to initiate appropriate and stringent action against the contractor, "who is collecting excess vehicle entry fee" at Courtallam.

Following her meeting with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a contribution of $125 million for the first phase of a Signature Energy Program in Pakistan aimed at increasing electricity output and conserving wasted energy and money.

Utilizing these currents we can create significantly higher levels of power generation as compared to other renewable and/or alternative energy sources such as, wind and solar power.

Donna Charpied remembers a day last February, when she and her husband, Larry, visited entrepreneur Arthur Lowe in his Palm Desert, Calif., office to talk about renewable energy projects proposed for the Mojave Desert.

When the River Runs Dry Melting glaciers might seem like good news for hydro power, but that's only in the short term.

The PacifcCorp Hydroelectric Company is working on a number of fish-friendly addition to their plants in order to improve the lives of area fish and wildlife.