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GE connects all units at 1.2 GW Jinzhai pumped storage
In line with the planned schedule, all units of the Jinzhai pumped storage power plant in China have been successfully connected to the grid, completed 15 days of trial operation, and...
First horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine installed
The trial operation of the first horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine at the Gerlos 1 pumped storage power plant is reported as running successfully, for over two months now, and...
First two pumped storage units at Jinzhai commissioned
GE Hydro Solutions has been contracted by Anhui Jinzhai Pumped Storage Power Co, one of the divisions of State Grid XinYuan, to supply four new 300 MW Pumped Storage...
Foresight Energy invests in combine PSH/wind power project
Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners, Foresight Group’s flagship energy transition fund, has made its first investment in pumped storage hydro technology.
Drought reduces hydro generation in the USA
The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2021, a historic drought that affected much of the western United States led to reduced water supply and, as a result, to...
US hydropower generation to decline 14% in 2021
In its latest Short Term Energy Outlook the US Energy Information Administration forecasts that electricity generation from US hydropower plants will be 14% lower in 2021 than it was...
Hydropower made up 66% of Brazil’s generation in 2020
The Energy Information Administration reports that Brazil, which largely relies on hydropower for electricity generation, met 66% of its electricity demand in 2020 from that...
MAN and Andritz seal hydrogen co-operation agreement
MAN Energy Solutions and Andritz Hydro have completed a strategic framework agreement to jointly develop international projects for the production of green hydrogen from hydropower.
Wudongde 10.2 GW hydro comes fully online
The Wudongde (WDD) project is the seventh largest hydropower station in the world, and has the largest capacity single unit in operation. Now, under a year after the commissioning of...
First hydro pumped power project in the Gulf region
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has contracted to supply Andritz Hydro with what is said to be state-of-the-art technology for grid connection and stabilisation at a unique pumped...
Glenmuckloch pumped storage project goes on sale
Buccleuch has announced that with the assistance of Edinburgh-based investment bank, Noble & Co, it is to put on the market a consented 210 MW pumped storage hydro system together with...
Mocean Energy unveils wave energy prototype
Wave power specialists Mocean Energy unveiled on 21 April its ‘Blue X’ wave energy prototype, a machine that will be deployed at sea in Orkney during May.
GE to equip Verbund’s new pump storage power plant
GE Power Conversion has been selected to equip Verbund’s new fully fed pump storage power plant Resseck II+ to be located between the two reservoirs Grosser Mühldorfer See and...
Giant stator by Voith Hydro is on the road
During the night of Tuesday/Wednesday 6-7 April, Voith Hydro successfully completed the transporter journey of the first stator for the expansion of the hydropower plant Töging am Inn...
Voith wins major orders for pumped storage
Voith Hydro has been awarded two major orders for pumped storage plants in Austria and Israel worth €80m. Pushed by global targets for reducing CO2 emissions, electricity generation...
Is this a revolution in hydro-power storage?
British company RheEnergise has invented a low-cost, energy efficient and environmentally-benign energy storage solution designated ‘High-Density Hydro’, and is currently undertaking...
Voith in small hydropower collaboration
Voith has won an order for the supply and installation of a vertical Kaplan turbine rated 8.6 MW, together with all the electrical and hydromechanical ancillary equipment, at the...
Contract for the 174 MW Asahan 3 hydro plant is awarded
Voith Hydro has been awarded by Mitsubishi Corporation the electro-mechanical equipment contract for the Asahan 3 hydropower project in Indonesia, which will be operated by...
Renewables are ‘defying the Covid crisis’ – IEA report
Renewables will account for almost 90% of the increase in total power capacity worldwide in 2020 and will accelerate in 2021 to their fastest growth in the last six years, according to...