Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) has engaged design and engineering firm SMEC to provide detailed engineering and project management services on the 500-MW Kundah Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project in India. State agency Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd. (TANGEDCO) is the project proponent and asset owner. The project, in the Nilgiris hills of...
The world’s first “shaft hydropower plant,” with the turbine concealed in a shaft in the river bed, is now operating in Germany. This plant was built on the Loisach River in Bavaria, in a nature reserve The new plant concept was developed at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and scientists say it allows fish...
The first unit of the 10,200-MW Wudongde hydropower station has been connected to the grid for power generation and completed 72 hours of trial operation, according to a press release from GE Renewable Energy. The project is owned by China Three Gorges and is located in the lower reaches of the Jinsha River. It is...
ANDRITZ has received an order from the Indian utility Chenab Valley Power Projects (P) Ltd. to supply the complete electromechanical equipment for the 624-MW Kiru hydropower plant on the Chenab River in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The contract has an order value of more than €50 million (US$56.3 million), ANDRITZ says. The order...
On July 9, Hydro Review will be hosting a webcast that provides attendees information on the use of efficient asset lifecycle management systems. Attendees at this webcast, called How Voith is Treading the Path Towards Intelligent Asset Management with OnCare.Asset, will hear digital hydropower experts discuss current challenges and development in the asset management of...
Brenda Burman, commissioner of the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, has named a new chief engineer: David Raff, Ph.D., PE, D.WRE. The chief engineer role dates to the beginning of Reclamation in 1902. The position was out of use for several decades, but Reclamation has “recreated this historic position for the 21st Century.”...
By Elizabeth Ingram Just one benefit, but an important one, of attending HYDROVISION International 2020 is the opportunity to earn 10 professional development hours (PDH) as a full conference delegate. HYDROVISION International is the world’s largest gathering of hydro industry professionals. It features 80 summit and knowledge hub sessions with about 300 speakers and more...
GE Renewable Energy, in consortium with Powerchina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited, announced today that it has been selected by Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to supply six Francis turbines and generators for Stage 1 of the 2,160-MW Dasu hydropower plant in Pakistan. The Dasu hydropower project is one of the most important power...
Voith and Icelandic national power company Landsvirkjun are embarking on a joint pilot project on cavitation monitoring in hydropower plants. Voith says it will install an innovative system, an add-on function for its OnCare.Health conditioning monitoring, at the 95-MW Budarhals hydropower plant in Iceland. The purpose of the new process is to quantify the effects...
Fortum has extended its operations and maintenance partnership with Maintpartner (part of Caverion) for 13 hydropower plants in Finland by two years. Maintpartner has been providing the service since 2013. Maintpartner is responsible for the local O&M of Fortum’s hydropower plants along the Oulujoki and Emäjoki rivers in the north and in Imatra region in...