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Recent blackouts in North America and Europe have of course been the focus of much attention, but Brazil, with a population of around 180 million and an installed capacity of [...]

THE SHORTAGE of affordable electricity has long been identified as one of the main hurdles to Pakistan's industrial and economic growth. The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has continually [...]

Meridian Energy has announced it is investing more than $40M on a four-year project to refurbish the Waitaki dam and power station. The Waitaki power station is the oldest station [...]

GERMANY'S KFW Bankengruppe has signed four agreements with the Albanian government for a total of US$14M in low interest rate loans, to provide assistance for a number of projects including [...]

THE INITIAL FINDINGS OF A World Bank study team have shown that the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project is economically viable given the guaranteed power purchases from Thailand. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [...]

Around $300m of $1bn in financial aid the country hopes to receive from donor countries in 2004-2006 will be spent on the energy sector, on projects such as restoring hydro-electric [...]

THE US STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS' municipal electric companies have asked federal regulators to reconsider a decision allowing New York to halve the amount of cheap hydroelectric power the utilities can [...]

WORK HAS STARTED ON THE construction of a hydroelectric plant in the northern province of Ha Giang, Vietnam. The Thai An plant, with a total investment of US$40M, will include [...]

THE CENTRAL CHINESE PROVINCE of Hunan has relaxed requirements for investors in its hydro power sector, according to the Hunan Ribao newspaper. Individuals, private enterprises, and foreign companies now all [...]

NATIONAL HYDROELECTRIC Power Corporation (NHPC) of India is planning to pick up an 85% equity in the US$450M, 300MW Upper Karnali hydro power project in Nepal. All the power from [...]

KAUKAUNA UTILITY COMMISSION recently ordered an economic feasibility study before deciding on investing between US$4.2M to US$24.3M to maintain and increase the amount of power it produces from the Fox [...]

KYRGYZSTAN'S National Statistics Committee reports that US$1M was invested in the construction of the Kambaratinsky hydroelectric power plant in Kyrgyzstan in the first half of this year, according to the [...]

Votorantim will invest R$1.8bn ($0.61bn) in nine hydro-electric power projects to supply its own industries, the company said last month. Total installed capacity at the nine plants will be 3.12 [...]

Brazil: Brazil's Votorantim conglomerate plans to invest $627m in nine hydroelectric power generation projects to supply its own industries. The investment figure is lust Votorantim's share of the nine projects. [...]

Loans totalling $3 billion have been agreed by Chinese banks for construction of the company's Xiaowan hydroelectric station. At 42 GW the new station is second only to the Three [...]

Pakistan: Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province has signed an agreement with a Chinese construction firm to build an 81 MW hydropower generation project. Construction of the Malakand Ill Hydropower Project would [...]

BRAZIL'S GRUPO TRIUNFO and its partners are investing US$177M in three hydroelectric project concessions in Parana and Goias states. Triunfo will channel its investment through its subsidiary, Triunfo Participacoes e [...]

THE MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT, which is looking at various avenues to tackle mounting energy shortages, has cleared a comprehensive policy to encourage private sector participation in mini-hydro projects with a generating [...]

A subsidiary of Virginia-based Dominion Energy has paid US$40m to raise its stake in the 450MW Cerros Colorados hydroelectric project in [...]