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Feds select hydro developers to receive testing support through Hydropower Testing Network

With support from one of HyTN’s 18 test facilities, each of these developers will perform tests intended to advance the readiness of their hydropower technologies.
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Hydropower

Interior announces nearly $850M to revitalize aging water infrastructure

The funding supports 77 projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington. They will improve water…
3 min read
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Hydropower

DOE invests almost $15M for hydro grid-balancing projects

DOE noted that the ability to operate flexibly allows hydropower facilities to help balance electricity grids with an increasing amount of variable renewable resources such…
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Hydropower

Equipment overhaul completed at Maentwrog hydro plant in Wales

The project upgrade was awarded through a competitive tender process to ensure greater reliability of the unit.
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Ranney Falls OPG
Hydropower

Digital twins: modernizing the oldest source of clean energy

With the nation's dams sitting at an average age of 60 years, multiple generations of employees have likely worked on each turbine, leaving behind knowledge…
4 min read
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Hydropower

We need to do a better job at refurbishing hydropower plants. An EU-funded project is taking on the task

The SHERPA project will aim to develop and validate new technologies for refurbishing current hydropower plants.
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Hydropower

BPA takes over Grand Coulee Dam switchyards from Reclamation after six-year effort

The transfer of Grand Coulee's 115-kilovolt, 230-kV, and 500-kV switchyards from the Bureau of Reclamation to BPA represents the largest asset transfer in BPA's history.
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Hydropower

TVA undertakes spillway component replacement at Fort Loudoun Dam

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is spending at least the next seven months replacing spillway gate hoists at the Fort Loudoun Dam in Loudon County,…
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Hydropower

A look inside Itaipu Dam, the #1 tourism attraction for infrastructure nerds

The Itaipú Dam is a 14-gigawatt (GW) hydroelectric power plant that straddles the border of Paraguay and Brazil. Commissioned in 1984, it was once the…
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Hydropower

How Little Goose Dam was brought back online after equipment failure

After a discontinued motor-operated disconnect switch (MOD) failed, a multiple agency effort ensued to bring the dam back online.
3 min read
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Vamma hydro
Hydropower

Hafslund names ANDRITZ to modernize unit at Vamma hydropower plant in Norway

Norwegian utility Hafslund has selected ANDRITZ to upgrade one of the plant’s turbine-generator units, increasing its capacity by 22 MW. ANDRITZ said this upgrade will…
2 min read
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Garrison Dam
Hydropower

How will you celebrate Global Hydropower Day this October 11?

Global Hydropower Day, on Oct. 11, 2024, will celebrate the positive impacts of sustainable hydropower on people and communities around the world.
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DOE doles out another $33M for hydropower projects, R&D

10.07.2024
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Hydro Tasmania completes $10M upgrade on Meadowbank spillway gates

09.13.2024
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HYDROGRID selected to digitalize, optimize Brazilian hydro plant

09.13.2024
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New NREL framework helps hydro plant owners assess cybersecurity risks

09.12.2024
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Federal manufacturing effort targets shorter wait times for large hydropower parts

09.06.2024
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Downing to digitalize 32 Swedish hydropower plants

09.04.2024
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Out with the old, in with the new: Otto Holden station gets new bearings

08.20.2024
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$21M ADB grant to help modernize Tajikistan hydro plant

08.13.2024
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The U.S. hydropower supply chain is struggling. Can it recover?

08.06.2024
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Mercury provides update on status of Karapiro hydropower station upgrade

07.16.2024
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Cornell includes hydropower in six research projects receiving over $900,000

07.11.2024
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Ontario government supporting OPG’s refurbishment of eight hydroelectric stations

06.28.2024
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