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Ten influential women were given our inaugural Women with Hydro Vision awards in Nashville, Tenn., last July. Read on to learn the tools to their success and find out how to nominate women for the 2015 awards.

N. Christian Porse is now project manager with Mavel Americas Inc.

The PennWell Hydro Group is pleased to announce the inaugural class of recipients of the Women with Hydro Vision award.

For that reason, I am very proud to announce the PennWell Hydro Group’s newest program: the “Women with Hydro Vision” awards. 

Consider these facts*:— One-fifth of all electricity produced worldwide comes from renewable sources.— Of that 20%, hydropower is … far and away … the leading contributor (80% of the 20% comes from hydro).— In North America, more than 500 MW of new hydropower was added to the grid in 2010.— During 2010, the first commercial-scale, grid-connected wave generator marked its 10th year of operation, having fed electricity into the grid for about 60,000 hours and achieving an average annual availability of 95%.

Mavel Americas Inc., a unit of Czech Republic-based hydro turbine manufacturer Mavel, has announced that Bruce Sellars has joined the firm as a regional sales representative.

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Are regulatory changes enabling developers of small hydro to license projects faster and more efficiently than before?

Developers of small hydropower projects are seeking big changes in the way their projects are permitted and licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

New incentives have led to a number of proposals to build small hydropower projects in the U.S. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is considering reforms aimed at streamlining the licensing process for the developers of those projects.