In yet another effort to provide relief to the State from the increasing power crisis, government has initiated steps to generate power by setting up mini hydel projects. The implementing agency APGENCO identified 100 potential sites to set-up the projects in the State. The GENCO officials said that the sites have been identified in 17 districts, with 20 of them in Nalgonda, 19 in Karimnagar, 30 in Adilabad ...

Indian energy company NTPC is merging its hydro projects unit, NTPC Hydro (NHL), with itself as a part of its business restructuring process. NHL was formed to under the development of small- and medium-sized hydropower projects. Confirming the speculations, NTPC spokesperson was quoted as saying that the merger would result into positives including operation consolidation, reduction in overhead expenditure ...

P2 Solar, Inc. has announced that it has acquired a unique renewable energy project to develop a mini-hydro facility in Punjab, India, on the Sidhwan irrigation canal in the city of Ludhiana. P2 now owns the project outright through its new wholly owned subsidiary, Jagat Energy Private Limited and will be moving to begin construction as soon as this summer. The project involves the installation of a 700 KW ...

China's environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country's tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 metres, will serve the Shuangjiangkou hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over 10 years by a subsidiary of state power firm Guodia ...

Tata Power Co is in pact with Clean Energy Invest AS and IFC InfraVentures to develop two hydro power projects totaling 400MW in Georgia at an estimated cost of $ 700 million, the Tata group power utility said Friday. Tata Power and Clean Energy would hold 40% stake each in the joint venture. The hydro projects would be developed in three phases with the first phase expected to be completed before mid-2016. ...

Malaysia-based electric utility firm Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) Remaco has collaborated with US technology company IBM to develop its $235m hydroelectric plant in Pakistan. IBM will provide its assistance through its asset management software to automate its manual systems besides catering to increase in resource demands. Further, IBM's software will provide the developers with integrated energy data and ass ...

General Electric's Power Conversion business will deliver its variable speed drive technology for a 1,000 MW pumped storage hydropower plant in India owned by Tehri Hydro Development Corp. India Ltd. Alstom picked GE to provide the Voltage Source Drive technology for all of the plant's variable-speed motor and generator sets of the pump turbines, which will enable continuous control of the plant's pump outp ...

After the Indian side stopped the operation of West Gandak Canal, electricity production from the Gandak Hydropower Centre of Suryapura in Nawalparasi district has come to a halt. As per the Gandak Agreement, the water supply in the West Gandak Canal is stopped only for two months (March 25- April 25, and Oct 30-Nov 30) in a year. But, the Indian side has obstructed water supply to the canal till date, affl ...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) is extending a total of P439.64 million worth of grants to the Philippine government for the setup of mini-hydropower plants in the provinces of Ifugao and Isabela. “Harnessing hydropower potentials in the countryside will help the government in its strategy of intensifying the development and use of renewable and environment-friendly alternative-energy reso ...

French heavy engineering group Alstom said Thursday it had completed in 24 hours the spinning of the four 60-MW turbines it installed at the Uri-II hydropower plant (HPP) in India's state of Jammu and Kashmir. Having completed that stage of the project, the company will now proceed with the grid synchronisation of the vertical turbines which is to take place in the next few months. Alstom won in 2007 a turn ...