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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...
Emerson to Install Ovation Expert Control System at Two Korean Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plants
Emerson Process Management - Emerson Process Management announced today that it has been selected by Korea Southern East Power Company (KOSEP) to install its Ovation® expert control system at two power generation facilities in Korea: the MuJu Pumped Storage Power Plant (PSPP) and Yecheon PSPP. more...
Snowy Hydro Provides Peak Demand Power Using $12 Million Control Systems Solution from Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. - As part of a $12 million order from an electric power company, Rockwell Automation has supplied 15 of the 33 new control systems planned for Snowy Hydro Limited, owner and operator of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in Australia. more...
Alstom signs E178 million variable speed pumped-storage hydro contract
ALSTOM Power Inc. - Expanding Switzerland’s renewable energy production capacity by 1000 MW, Alstom Hydro has been awarded a €178 million contract to provide four 250 MW variable speed pump turbine and motor generator units for a new pumped storage installation in Switzerland. more...
ABB wins $120 million hydropower order in Switzerland
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $120 million from Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG (KLL) related to the construction of a new hydropower plant and energy-storage facility in eastern Switzerland. more...
PPL Montana breaks ground for $230 million redevelopment of Rainbow hydroelectric plant
PPL Corporation - PPL Montana welcomed federal, state and local officials on Thursday (10/15) to celebrate the start of the $230 million project to expand the Rainbow hydroelectric plant for a second century of producing clean, renewable energy. more...
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