Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 21, 2020

Both the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysts (IEEFA) have revealed that, from March 25th through May 3rd, utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower collectively generated more electricity than coal! renewables first beat coal last year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

After less than a year in his job, a Scottish Water apprentice has clinched both Scottish and UK top awards for his innovative work and presentation on using the natural flow of water to generate electricity. It was excellent and a worthy winner. Zac presented confidently with interactive elements to engage the audience.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hydropower to help integrate wind and solar energy resources, helping move toward the joint vision to reach a majority renewables American electric grid within a decade

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. Abundant rainfall, massive gorges, enormous waterfalls: the geography of Africa has all the elements for producing electricity from river flow.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

Hydropower is an extremely old source of energy, whose provenance extends back to the watermills that were relied upon by ancient civilisations. Hydroelectricity remains an attractive renewable energy source today, especially in Europe which has a large network of small and large hydropower plants. WEG installation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

The scheme is well underway and is being led by Scottish Water’s commercial subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons and the group says it is expected to generate 0.42GWh of green electricity each year – the equivalent of boiling around 1,800,000 kettles a year – and offset 13 per cent of the treatment works’ annual electricity demand.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

The 16-GW Baihetan hydropower plant on the upstream branch of China’s Yangtze River has begun generating electricity for the first time, according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV. The project forms part of a national drive to generate electricity and deliver it to high energy-consuming regions on the east coast.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Electric actuators for a major hydropower dam installation in China are to be supplied by parts manufacturer Rotork. The giant Baihetan Dam hydropower plant is part of a cascade of dams on the Jinsha River (the upstream part of the Yangtze). Satellite view of the Xiluodu dam and hydropower plant on the Yangtze River in China.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Gia Schneider and her brother Abe started Natel Energy based on a hydropower turbine their father designed. It’s designed to protect wildlife and drastically cut the ecological impact of hydropower. “Our objectives have actually not wavered. Gia also has a long history in energy.

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altenergymag

JULY 25, 2022

Hydropower (also called hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, and water power) is a general term for electricity produced by hydropower systems. These systems use the force of gravity to move water and create electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 21, 2021

Hydropower sits at the nexus of energy and water, enabling hydropower projects to be unique catalysts for positive change. If designed with both energy and water in mind, hydropower projects can increase reliable renewable generation and deliver positive co-benefits for river ecosystems and water users. What is keeping the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hydropower, the world's largest source of renewable electricity, could begin using environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) measures to bolster project financing from the end of this year. The application of the hydropower criteria to the climate bonds standard and certification scheme has been under review since 2019.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 26, 2024

. | Photo by George Rose/Getty Images The amount of hydropower generated in the Western US last year was the lowest it’s been in more than two decades. That includes states west of the Dakotas and Texas, where 60 percent of the nation’s hydropower was generated. We saw that happen on a global scale in 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Over the past five years, Europe's base of conventional hydropower and pumped hydro capacity grew at about 1 percent a year, reaching 251 gigawatts in 2019, according to the International Hydropower Association (IHA). In the meantime, green hydrogen and batteries pose a rising threat to hydropower plants and their future profits.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

Kenneth Lobo Méndez, director of planning and sustainability in electricity management, and Marco Jiménez Chavez, an engineer, at the state-run electricity utility Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). For comparison, the US generates just over 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) has released a research and policy paper that outlines how hydropower could be pivotal in supporting growth in green hydrogen. Looking ahead hydropower could potentially supply at least 1,000 TWh of the additional electricity demand required in IRENA’s 2050 scenario.

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TechXplore

APRIL 18, 2024

A study, published in Nature Energy, is among the first to explore the floating photovoltaics (FPV) at the continental scale, finding that FPV installed at existing major reservoirs could produce 20–100% of the electricity expected from Africa's planned hydropower dams.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Civil engineering specialist Land & Water has won a contract to construct a new hydropower station at Caversham Weir in Reading on behalf of client Reading Hydro CBS. This will help to create a renewable source of energy, in the area, that should generate around 46kw of renewable electricity to the National Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

As laboratories of democracy, states deserve a victory lap for enacting renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that have helped transform our electricity system. Under New York's RPS, only hydropower under 30 megawatts is eligible for certain renewable energy credits (RECs). We believe existing hydropower of all sizes merit inclusion.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Natel Energy has developed a new small hydropower turbine technology that offers an environmentally friendly and compact, modular hydro generation system. Natel understood that a huge economic barrier to the practical deployment of renewable hydropower lies in the danger to fish represented by spinning turbine blades. By Lise Houston.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Energy Information Administration forecasts that electricity generation from U.S. hydropower plants will be 14% lower in 2021 than it was in 2020. hydropower capacity. In 2020, hydropower plants in these states generated 136 billion kWh of electricity, representing 54% of U.S. hydropower generation that year.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s a shockingly heady time for electricity. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Subscribe here. Surge protection.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.2% of net domestic electrical generation during 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. electrical generation in 2019 — a 15% increase over 2018 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Washington DC — Driven by strong solar and wind power growth, electrical generation by renewable energy sources (i.e., also including biomass, geothermal, hydropower) accounted for 20.45% of total U.S. electrical generation (wind – 8.50%, solar – 4.09%). Energy Information Administration (EIA). ” .

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 7, 2025

Thinktank says solar has been fastest-growing energy source for last 20 years, but remains dwarfed by hydro power The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

Tongland Power Station on the River Dee, Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme. Energy network provider SP Energy Networks says it has led a successful trial to re-energise its electricity network via renewable energy from wind turbines and hydro generation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The UK’s first all-electric intercity bus service drove off with a top prize at the Scottish Green Energy Awards on 1 December. The pioneering technology can spot the difference between individual puffins which avoids counting the same bird twice to help with monitoring wildlife at a wind farm and a hydropower site.

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BloombergNEF

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hydropower generates more electricity than all other renewable technologies combined and took a major step forward last year with as much as 34 gigawatts added. The post A Former Prime Minister Backs Hydropower as Mission Critical appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Report funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association, Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group, SSE Renewables. Long-duration storage means electricity produced by renewables such as wind farms can be stored for use when it is needed by consumers.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

electricity if installations were plopped on just over a quarter of the country’s existing human-made water bodies where FPV is feasible. That potential is even greater when FPV systems are paired with hydropower, reaching 4,400 to 5,700 GW. Under existing estimates of FPV potential, the entire world could install up to 1,000 GW.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 29, 2021

In 2020, renewables generated a record 834 billion kWh of electricity, or about 21% of all the electricity generated in the U.S., Only natural gas produced more electricity than renewables in the U.S. electricity generation and steadily increased use of wind and solar. Coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 11, 2021

Electric power generated from renewable energy sources in the U.S. electricity source in ­­2020 , trailing only natural gas. electricity source in ­­2020 , trailing only natural gas. will rise to nearly 23% in 2022, according to short-term guidance released Tuesday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Energy Central

MARCH 9, 2022

The cryptocurrency sector is adopting more renewable electricity to shrink its carbon footprint and lower operational costs. Industrial energy consumers are influencing the clean energy market, especially hydropower. These objectives are affecting different industries’ energy consumption patterns.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Peninsula Clean Energy said it has begun providing 100 percent carbon-free electricity to all of its nearly 300,000 customers, which is ahead of California’s 2045 zero-emission power generation mandate and a step in helping the agency achieve its ultimate goal of providing all customers 100 percent renewable power on a 24/7 basis.

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altenergymag

JULY 25, 2022

j+ pilot software integrates with Juice Power AG to manage the usage of green hydropower electricity for electric vehicles

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Move highlights climate risk to world’s biggest source of renewable energy

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Financial Times: Energy

APRIL 26, 2024

Batteries and other solutions aim to store wind, solar and hydropower to make up for intermittent supply

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