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Massachusetts ratepayers to pay extra $512M for transmission line for Canadian hydropower

TechXplore

Three Massachusetts utilities and Central Maine Power's parent company have agreed that Massachusetts ratepayers must shoulder $512 million in additional costs caused by delays in construction of a power transmission project in Maine that will allow Canadian hydropower to reach the New England power grid.

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Monitoring grid stability with hydropower signals

Smart Energy International

US researchers have created a new method to predict electric grid stability in real time using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities. With increasing intermittent renewable generation, such real-time situational awareness is increasingly critical for grid stability. Have you read?

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Improving the efficiency of the hydropower network

Envirotec Magazine

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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Hitachi Completes Acquisition of ABB Power Grids to Tackle Renewable Energy’s Rise

GreenTechMedia

Japan’s Hitachi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in ABB Power Grids worth up to $7.8 billion, creating a new business aimed at tackling the renewable and distributed energy frontiers of the power industry. percent stake in the venerable power grids unit of the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant.

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IHA paper: Couple green hydrogen with hydropower to create a net-zero future

Renewable Energy World

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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Oak Ridge National Laboratory - New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals

Global Renewable News

ORNL and UT researchers created a new method to calculate the power grid's inertia in real time, using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities such as TVA's Raccoon Mountain proj.

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What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity?

The Verge: Energy

Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower.