Articles Tagged with ''hydropower''

Work to complete 145-mile line to channel Canada hydropower to New England, halted in 2021 by a successful ballot measure and multiple legal battles, announced its restart after winning a court ruling last spring.

Despite a unanimous decision that halted NECEC project developer Avangrid has enough cash invested to legally resume construction despite a 2021 state voters' block, the firm CEO told investors April 26 it won't know work restart schedule until after mid year.

A consortium led by Norwegian green energy developer and operator Scatec has signed a commercial agreement to finance, construct, operate and maintain a greenfield hydroelectric power plant with peak capacity of 350 MW in the southern African country of Malawi.

The $1.4-billion electromechanical portion of the Kwanza River dam project includes a power plant with an installed capacity of 2,070 MW. 

A concept floated by Republican Mike Simpson, a U.S. congressman from Idaho, holds the potential to loosen the intractable logjam that has persisted for years among lawmakers, community members and federal officials to find a way to save the dwindling salmon population in the Columbia River Basin before it is too late.

The New York Power Authority is spending $1.1 billion to extend the life of the Niagara Power Project, including the 2,525-MW Robert Moses station.

Projects to build a hydropower water tunnel in New South Wales and a rail tunnel in Queensland total $7.4 billion

A newly installed $376,000 hydropower turbine in a south Seattle water main aims to generate roughly 70 percent of the annual energy consumed by the district's administrative facilities.