Ethiopia will receive funds from China for a transmission line valued at $1 billion that will bring electricity from a hydropower plant to the capital, Addis Ababa according to a government official. The 619-kilometer (385-mile) link from the 6,000-megawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River will be constructed over the next three years by China Electric Power Equipment and Technology, D ...

China Hydroelectric Corporation, an owner, developer and operator of small hydroelectric power projects in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it has closed its previously announced sale of the Yuheng hydroelectric power project, a 30 MW project located in Fujian province. This sale, for total consideration of approximately $44.3 million, has resulted in net proceeds of $20.8 million to the ...

It has been announced that the Klong Koh Pee public dam in Chalong – which has been out of action for almost two years – is going to be repaired. Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkhaosuthirak visited the dam with representatives of the Damrongtham Center – the province’s ombudsman – and local authorities on April 19th. The dam was built two years ago in order to end water shortages among local residents, bu ...

A foreign-funded initiative aims to install some 240 micro-hydro-power generation units in militancy-affected parts of Malakand Division in an effort to benefit community infrastructure and ease poverty. "An investment of €40m (Rs. 5.1 billion) is being made available to set up micro-hydro-power units in parts of Malakand lacking electricity supply lines," Shamsul Mulk, chief executive officer of the NGO Sa ...

Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-Water), the leading water resources and power firm in South Korea, on Thursday signified its agreement to the water protocol governing the operations of the 246 MW Angat hydropower plant in Bulacan. This was formalized in a memorandum of agreement signed by representatives of K-Water and state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp., according to PSALM preside ...

The 'friendship' bridge across the Mekong River between Thailand and Laos may prosper trade at the cost of destabilizing livelihoods. As the fourth "friendship" bridge across the Mekong River, between northern Thailand and Laos, waits to open later this year, agreements for a fifth one, also between Thailand and Laos, and a sixth, between Laos and Myanmar, have just been announced. When these bridges, and m ...

Bangladesh has opposed construction of two hydro-based power projects along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya until India and Bangladesh signs a water sharing agreement. Meghalaya power minister Clement Marak told the assembly on Wednesday that Bangladesh has said the construction of the two dams will have adverse impact on Bangladesh sides, while replying to the Call Attention motion moved by Shillon ...

Construction of run-of-the-river hydropower projects by India on Western rivers poses a serious threat to agriculture sector and could severely affect water availability in the country at crucial times. Farmers Associates of Pakistan (FAP), Research Institute of Natural Resources of Pakistan (RINP), Water Resources Development Council (WRDC) and Punjab Water Council (PWC) expressed the concern in a meeting ...

Deficient rains have compounded power woes in Kerala as the water-level of reservoirs is receding fast in the state which relies heavily on hydro power. The situation is bound to worsen if the catchment areas of major hydro-power projects fail to receive copious summer rains before the onset of South West Monsoon, which normally hits Kerala coast by the first week of June. Nearly 71 per cent of the state's ...

The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is hoping to commission its 240-MW Uri 2 hydropower plant by the end of the month, the Indian utility said. The run-of-river complex was originally scheduled to be operation by September 2009, but development of the Uri 2 project has been delayed by a number of factors. Most recently, heavy rains in flash floods in Fall 2011 flooded the project's tailrace ...