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Dexter looks to harness hydropower from stream
Nov 18 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Diana Bowley Bangor Daily News, Maine - With financial help from the federal and state governments, this town in the future could generate half of the electricity used in its municipal buildings through hydroelectric power, thus reducing its consumption of fossil fuels, according to a town official. More...
Griggs hydro-power idea hits resistance
Nov 16 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Robert Vitale The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio - A fledgling Cincinnati energy company is looking at the Scioto River as a potential source of green power for at least 3,000 homes. More...
Control Microsystems Releases the Accutech TM10 Wireless Turbine Meter Totalizer
Control Microsystems, Inc. (CMI) - Accutech, a division of Control Microsystems, today announced the launch of the TM10 Turbine Meter Totalizer, the latest battery powered wireless instrumentation product that offers precise flow rate and total accumulated flow volume data for standard turbine meters. more...
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Grant PUD awarded $140 million for hydro project upgrades
Grant County Public Utility District - Grant PUD has been approved by the federal government for $140 million in low interest bond financing for turbine and generator upgrades at Wanapum Dam, on the Columbia River. more...
Alstom to supply electrical equipment for a new unit at Ruacana, Namibia's biggest hydropower plant
ALSTOM Power Inc. - Alstom Hydro, in consortium with Andritz Hydro, has been awarded a contract with Namibia’s state-owned power utility Nam Power for the supply of the electro-mechanical equipment and penstocks for a new 92 MW turbine-generator unit at Ruacana power plant in Namibia. more...
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