Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:40:15 +0000
For many years, the National Hydropower Association has designated August 24 as National Hydropower Day in the U.S. In honor of the occasion, POWER is highlighting a variety of things […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:03:31 +0000
The Lijiaxia Hydropower Station No. 5, one of the world’s biggest hydropower plants in a dual-row turbine layout, completed its 72-hour trial run and became officially operational on Oct. 10. Completion of
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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:02:00 +0000
Extreme temperature and weather events have become more prevalent in the past decade. The December 2022 Christmas freeze in the southeast U.S. saw many areas experiencing single-digit temperatures. The February […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:37:50 +0000
Salt River Project (SRP) has become one of the first U.S. utilities to shift from an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to an Integrated System Plan (ISP), a “holistic roadmap” that […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Una Nowling, PE| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:12:00 +0000
Providing employees with a safe and healthy workplace is paramount. Never dismiss persistent workplace environmental complaints, no matter how “crazy” they may seem. A lone SUV motored through wooded hills
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:39:56 +0000
Officials in Angola announced that the Laúca hydroelectric power station is now fully operational, with Austrian company Andritz wrapping construction of the final 70-MW environmental flow power station at the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:23:18 +0000
Voith Hydro in 2022 replaced four vertical Pelton turbines at Verbund’s 75-year-old 326-GWh Gerlos 1 pumped storage facility in Austria with a first-of-its-kind horizontal six-nozzle Pelton turbine
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:21:55 +0000
The hydropower industry has placed a keen focus on sustainability in recent years. “The San José Declaration on Sustainable Hydropower,” a landmark declaration issued on Sept. 24, 2021, by the hydropower
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:44:02 +0000
Kenya’s government is pinning a nationwide blackout on Aug. 25 to the loss of 270 MW from the 310-MW Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant (LTWP), though the wind generator has […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:05:57 +0000
The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) will for the first time consider “energy policy” among five significant evolving and interdependent risks to grid reliability. In its latest biennial ERO Reliability […]
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