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Hydropower
Electrical energy produced by falling or flowing water. See hydroelectric power plant. (source: EPA) Background from Wikipedia To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. Please discuss this issue on the talk page, or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Undershot water wheels on the Orontes River in Hama, Syria Saint Anthony Falls Hydropower (or waterpower) harnesses the energy of moving or falling water. This is usually in the form of hydroelectricity from a dam, but it can be used directly as a mechanical force. The term refers to a number of systems in which flowing water drives a hydraulic turbine or waterwheel. Prior to the widespread availability of commercial electricity, hydropower was used for milling, textile manufacture, and the operation of sawmills. Saint Anthony Falls is an example of a natural site with considerable potential for water power. During the last half of the 19th century, scores of grist mills were built at Saint Anthony Falls, taking advantage of the 50-foot drop in the Mississippi River. The concentration of mills burgeoned the city of Minneapolis. In the 1830s, at the height of the canal-building era, hydropower was used to transport barge traffic up and down steep hills using the technology of inclined plane railroads. International Water Power and Dam Construction,Boott Hydropower has entered into a settlement arrangement with Massachusetts over its failure to notify the US state about an oil spill that reached the Atlanta won't go thirsty - 22 Oct 2007 Atlanta Journal Constitution,The corps operates these facilities to provide for flood control, water supply, water quality, fish and wildlife, recreation, hydropower production and E.ON launches package for electricity supplied only from renewable ... - 22 Oct 2007 Forbes,The EasyGreen package will provide small and large businesses alike with electricity solely from wind farms and hydropower stations. BHP Billiton plans $3bn smelter - 22 Oct 2007 iAfrica.com,The smelter would use electricity from the proposed Inga 3 hydropower station at Inga on the Congo River. "Initial concept studies have been completed for * 'Hydro Sri Lanka' opens today - 22 Oct 2007 Colombo Page,Oct 22, Colombo: The first international conference on small hydropower projects, 'Hydro Sri Lanka' will be declared open by Minister of Irrigation and Yahoo! goes carbon neutral - 22 Oct 2007 Grist Magazine,After much due diligence, Yahoo! has decided to offset its 250 thousand metric ton carbon footprint from 2006 through hydropower in rural Brazil and wind Hu Jintao -- general secretary of CPC Central Committee - 22 Oct 2007 People's Daily Online,Graduated from the specialty of hub hydropower stations of the Department of Water Conservancy Engineering of Tsinghua University. Wind power gaining momentum on Labrador's coast - 22 Oct 2007 Labradorian,We want hydropower. We have the possibility of small hydropower right in our region that we are not benefiting from. This means we are not getting the power BHP to study building $3bn aluminium smelter in DRC - 22 Oct 2007 Engineering News (press release),The smelter would use electricity from the proposed Inga 3 hydropower station at Inga, on the Congo river, the mining giant said in an emailed statement. Regional power supplier plugging into wind energy - 22 Oct 2007 The Missoulian,Those hydropower plants include headwater reservoirs such as Montana's Hungry Horse and Libby dams, and provide at-cost electricity to 140 utility companies Uganda: How to Save the Rural Poor From Darkness - 22 Oct 2007 AllAfrica.com,...'Pico Hydro' is a term used to describe small hydropower systems with a power output of up to 5KW. These are being successfully used for rural Boott Hydropower settles with Mass. AG - Oct 18, 2007 Boston Globe,Andover-based Boott Hydropower Inc. has agreed to pay $125000 to settle allegations that it failed to report an oil spill, the office of Massachusetts Norway firm overtakes Indians in Nepal hydropower deals - Oct 18, 2007 Earthtimes,Statkraft Norfund Power Nepal, which entered Nepal's power market last year, has bagged the licence for two hydropower projects - Tamakoshi II and III Gezhouba to build hydropower plant in Iran - Oct 18, 2007 Interfax.cn (subscription),...(IWPC) to build a hydropower project at Iran's Roudbar-Lorestan dam and power plant. The full text of this story is available to subscribers of our weekly Difficult decisions for Scottish hydropower - Oct 17, 2007 Environmental Data Interactive,Dr Chris Spray SEPA's director of environmental science, said: "Hydropower is an important source of renewable energy which helps to tackle greenhouse gas World Bank Raises Funding For Renewable, Energy Efficiency By 67 ... - Oct 21, 2007 AHNWashington, DC (AHN) - The World Bank funding for renewable energy - comprising wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower - and energy efficiency Gezhouba Group Won Iranian Hydropower Project - Oct 17, 2007 Trading Markets (press release),WUHAN, Oct 17, 2007 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- ZZGEC | charts | news | PowerRating -- China Gezhouba Group Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600068) announced it had won the Russian electricity monopoly head proposes to construct hydropower ... - Oct 16, 2007 Times of Central Asia (subscription),...delivering a statement at the 32nd session of the CIS Electric Power in Dushanbe had offered construction of a hydropower plant on the Lake Sarez as one Hydropower Doesn't Count as Clean Energy - Oct 5, 2007 AlterNet,Bill Fehrman, president of PacifiCorp, the hydropower company that owns these Klamath dams, says replacing the power from these dams "could result in adding Gezhouba Group wins hydropower project in Iran - Oct 15, 2007 China Knowledge Online,Gezhouba signed a contract on Monday with Iran Hydropower Resources Development Company (IWPC), the owner of the dam. The contract value amounted to EUR 310 Chilean hydropower project wins antitrust approval - Oct 20, 2007 ReutersSANTIAGO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Chile's antitrust commission has given electricity generators Endesa and Colbun the green light to build five hydroelectric Q: Who owns river power? - Oct 17, 2007 Boston Globe,These are modern hydropower plants being proposed under the bridges, no more dams. The plans for the Piscataqua involve little more than placing turbines Xcel Hydropower-Plant Fire in Colorado Kills Five Contractors - Oct 3, 2007 BloombergBy Maher Chmaytelli Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A fire at Xcel Energy Inc.'s hydroelectric plant outside Georgetown, Colorado, killed five contractors who were Alstom gets 190 mln eur contract for hydropower station in Vietnam ... - Oct 1, 2007 Forbes,PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Alstom has signed a contract worth 190 mln eur to supply 'electromechanical parts' for a hydropower station in Vietnam. China's hydropower may be global warming time bomb - Sep 25, 2007 ReutersBy Emma Graham-Harrison - Analysis BEIJING (Reuters) - China is scrambling to build massive hydropower dams to curb pollution and slake its thirst for Tibet's new hydropower plant begins operation - Sep 23, 2007 Hindu,24 (Xinhua): A hydropower plant with the biggest single-unit capacity in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region started operation on Sunday. Five dead in fire at Colorado hydropower plant - Oct 3, 2007 AFPDENVER, United States (AFP) — Five workers were killed after being caught in a subterranean pipe at a Rocky Mountain hydroelectric plant in Colorado when a Three Gorges official defends environmental impact - Oct 18, 2007 Reuters UK,Li, also president of the state-run corporation responsible for hydropower development along the Yangtze river, said the world's largest hydropower project Thailand to buy another 2000 MW of power from Laos - Oct 18, 2007 Reuters UK,BANGKOK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Thailand agreed on Thursday to buy another 2000 megawatts of electricity from hydropower dams in neighbouring Laos on top of 5 more Napocor assets to be sold next year - Oct 21, 2007 Inquirer.net,Also, PSALM had sold eight Napocor hydropower facilities--the 3.5-MW Talomo plant in Davao, the 1.6-MW Agusan facility in Bukidnon, the 1.8-MW Barit plant SA, Namibia in talks to build hydropower station - Oct 12, 2007 Engineering News (press release),South Africa and Namibia may build a 30-MW hydro-electrical power station on the Orange River, to ease the burden on the countries’ tight electricity Himachal hydropower projects to get World Bank funds - Oct 9, 2007 Earthtimes.org,Shimla, Oct 9 - The World Bank has agreed to provide Rs.70 billion to build eight hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh, say top government sources. Financing for local hydropower facility closer - Oct 7, 2007 Stabroek News,Though the target date for start-up of a hydropower facility for the national grid has passed, its actual implementation could be closer now that the Armenia and Iran construct hydropower plan on the Aras - Oct 9, 2007 Messenger.ge,By M. Alkhazashvili Armenia’s attempts to diversify its energy sources took a step forward on October 4 when the parliament in Yerevan ratified an agreement Russian giant to build Indian hydropower plants - Oct 5, 2007 Earthtimes.org,Moscow, Oct 5 (RIA Novosti) HydroOGK, the world's second-largest hydropower generating company, may invest $30 billion to build hydropower plants in India, Mighty River Waikato runs through Waikato Museum - Oct 18, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,The Mighty River Waikato: from Hinaki to Hydropower opens at Waikato Museum on Saturday, 27 October 2007 signifying a landmark destination exhibition that Three Gorges hydropower plant creates equivalent of 18 nuclear ... - Oct 3, 2007 EngineeringNet.be,Hydro generators from Astom are turning waterpower into electrical energy in the largest hydropower project ever built, the Three Gorges in China. Andover company fined for oil spill at hydro plant - Oct 19, 2007 Eagle Tribune,By Crystal Bozek , Staff Writer ANDOVER - Boott Hydropower Inc. will pay a $125000 penalty to settle allegations it failed to report an oil spill, Low-cost hydropower announced for two western New York businesses - Sep 27, 2007 EmpireStateNews.net,Albany -- The state will provide low-cost hydropower to two businesses in Tonawanda and Lewiston, which will create 58 new jobs. China Holdings Inc. Signs Development Contract to Construct New ... - Oct 16, 2007 Grainnet,The Company is developing and building up its RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS & PIPELINE in Hydropower Plants and Biomass Energy Projects, and to reach a total Making smarter use of region’s hydropower - Sep 23, 2007 Buffalo News,Sam Cole, UB professor who studied the impact of hydropower Think of the giant hydropower plant north of Niagara Falls as a set of jumper cables with enough African technicians graduate from China's small hydropower courses - Sep 24, 2007 People's Daily Online,The training program involves all knowledge about how to build small hydropower plants from China's experience to specific techniques such as water energy Trade deficit should not be reduced at any cost - Oct 16, 2007 Vietnam Economic Times,In 2007, Vietnam had to import valuable machinery and equipment for big construction sites, including Ca Mau Power and Fertilizer Plants, Son La Hydropower E.ON to Raise Stake in Swedish Reactors in Asset Swap (Update3) - Oct 12, 2007 BloombergStatkraft will receive 934 megawatts of Swedish hydropower generation, about 1.1 gigawatts of generation in Germany, Poland and the UK and more than 2 Stabbing the mountains - Sep 25, 2007 The Statesman,In May 2003, the Centre launched the 50000 MW hydroelectric initiative as a step forward to tap the near 78 per cent unutilised hydropower potentials in the Alstom Hydro wins new contracts worth €350 million - Oct 11, 2007 International Herald Tribune,In China, Alstom Hydro has also signed four contracts worth approximately €200 million (US$282.5 million) to supply hydropower equipment. Alstom Hydro wins contracts in Brazil, China - Oct 11, 2007 ReutersPA: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it won several contracts worth around 350 million euros ($494.3 million) to supply equipment for hydropower NRNs Urged to Join Hands for Infrastructure Development - Oct 16, 2007 Himalayan Times,Making a presentation on opportunities in hydropower investment, Anup Kumar Upadhaya, joint secretary at the ministry of water resources, Meeting will cover water - Oct 17, 2007 Augusta Chronicle (subscription),14 from 4 to 8 pm at the Hilton Garden Inn in Anderson, SC The corps, which manages the three lakes and their hydropower and recreation facilities, Datang Power Electricity Hiked 31.6% for Three Quarters - Oct 16, 2007 Trading Markets (press release),...and the Yayangshan Hydropower Project of Yunnan Datang International Lixianjiang Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. 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