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Hydro


Large and small hydropower, hydrokinetic, and ocean power projects and technologies

Hydropower Horizons: Pioneering a Pelton Turbine Breakthrough

Voith Hydro in 2022 replaced four vertical Pelton turbines at Verbund’s 75-year-old 326-GWh Gerlos 1 hydropower facility in Austria with a first-of-its-kind horizontal six-nozzle Pelton turbine. Revolutionizing 140-year-old Pelton technology,…



Accelerating Sustainable Hydropower Development Around the World

The hydropower industry has placed a keen focus on sustainability in recent years. “The San José Declaration on Sustainable Hydropower,” a landmark declaration issued on Sept. 24, 2021, by the…


POWER Digest [September 2023]

Indian USC Coal Plant, First Transnational Power Project, Begins Operation Indian independent power producer Adani Power on July 12 began full commercial operation of the coal-fired 1,600-MW Godda Ultra Super-Critical…


Dispute Brews About Wind Farm’s Role in Kenya’s Nationwide Blackout

Kenya’s government is pinning a nationwide blackout on Aug. 25 to the loss of 270 MW from the 310-MW Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant (LTWP), though the wind generator has…


NERC Identifies Energy Policy as Key Risk to Grid Reliability Amid Evolving Challenges

The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) will for the first time consider “energy policy” among five significant evolving and interdependent risks to grid reliability. In its latest biennial ERO Reliability…


Hydropower Plant in Norway Partly Collapses Due to Floods

Record-high river levels stemming from Storm Hans, a storm that battered southern Norway this week, have partially destroyed a dam on the Glåma River and inundated Hafslund Eco’s Braskereidfoss hydroelectric…