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2008 Central Asia energy crisis

In Kyrgyzstan, also rich in hydroelectric resources, the cold weather has made demand 10% higher than the same time last year, which is depleting the main Toktogul reservoir for hydroelectric power.

Agua Caliente, El Salvador

The Salvadorian government had plans to build a hydroelectric dam north of the town, the Cimarron Hydroelectric project, that would have diverted flow from the Lempa River and would have increased the flow of water downstream into the Metayate River.

Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant

The oldest hydroelectric power plant supplying a commercial transmission system for alternative current is the power plant Thorenberg near Lucerne in Switzerland.

Atiamuri

Atiamuri Power Station is a hydroelectric power station on the Waikato River owned by Mighty River Power.

Becca Hall

Later used as a control centre, it performed as one of the control centres for the Dinorwig hydroelectric storage facility in North Wales.

Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant

The Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant (Бухтарминская ГЭС) is a hydroelectric power plant on the Irtysh River 5 km upstream of the town of Serebryansk, in East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan.

Buško Blato

The governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia (republics within Yugoslavia at the time) worked together on a project to build a hydroelectric power plant in Ruda (municipality of Otok in Croatia) called Orlovac that would have an output of 237 MW and an average annual yield of 366 GWh.

Charles F. Brush

In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a hydroelectric power plant at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, among the first to generate electricity from water power in the United States.

Choluteca river basin

Most hydroelectric potential and current output in Honduras is located on the Cangrejal, Patuca, and Ulua rivers.

Citarum River

H. Djuanda (Jatiluhur) hydroelectric powerplants, all supplying the electricity for Bandung and Greater Jakarta area.

Copper Angel

The international geological expedition headed by Soviet engineer Kurmaev plying by Anatoly Kuznetsov, spends in one of the Latin American countries of research with the purpose of construction of hydroelectric power station in remote mountain area.

Davidson Ditch

Davidson Ditch lay dormant until 1958, when the new Chatanika Power Company purchased it and used one of the siphons to power a hydroelectric plant that drove a dredging operation near Chatanika.

Donzère-Mondragon Dam

This hydroelectric dam is located in the French commune of Bollène in the Vaucluse department of southeastern France.

Edison Engineering Development Program

EEDP is most popular at the more technical businesses in GE's portfolio, including GE Technology Infrastructure (which includes the Healthcare, Aviation, and Transportation businesses), GE Global Research, and GE Energy Infrastructure (which includes the Wind, Hydroelectric, Solar, and Oil & Gas businesses).

Farkhad Dam

The Farkhad Dam (also known as Dam-16) is a hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Syr Darya River, near Shirin in Sirdaryo Province, Uzbekistan, and Khujand in Sughd Province, Tajikistan.

George Pattinson

Working with Sir Adam Beck on the Electrical Power Commission, he helped bring hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls to Preston.

Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Between 1948 and 1959, the dam of Gorky Hydroelectric Station (now Nizhny Novgorod Hydroelectric Station) was built a few kilometers upstream from Gorodets, and along with the station a new industrial town, Zavolzhye, was built on the right side of the Volga.

Guthega Power Station

The power station's purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and it is the first completed and smallest of the seven hydroelectric power stations that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Halcrow Group

During the first half of the 20th century, William Halcrow (later Sir William) established the firm in other areas, notably tunnelling and hydroelectric schemes.

Harry Gesner

Father of Tara Tanzer-Cartwright (Teacher), Jason Gesner (Hydroelectric Manager), and Zen Gesner (Actor).

Hernandarias District

The Capital Latin American electric power has two hydroelectric plants, Acaray which was launched in 1968 and Itaipú, built between 1976 and 1982, is the world's largest dam, considered one of the wonders of the modern world.

Holding Slovenske elektrarne

The company consists of hydroelectric plants based on the Drava, Sava, and Soča rivers and coal-fired power plants in Brestanica, Šoštanj, and Velenje.

Hugh McFadyen

In late 2007, McFadyen criticized the Doer government for its decision to construct a hydroelectric transmission line on the west rather than the east side of Lake Winnipeg.

Hulu Terengganu Hydroelectric Project

The Hulu Terengganu Hydroelectric Project is proposed for the Terengganu region of Malaysia.

Inguri River

It is 213 km long, originates in northeastern Svaneti near the region of Racha and plays an important role providing hydroelectric power to the area.

Itaipu

Itaipu Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River, across the Brazil-Paraguay border

Jordan River Dam

It is part of the second hydroelectric development on Vancouver Island.

Judgement Tower

It is one of several surviving elements of the former city walls; others include the Water Tower and the Jewish Tower, while the Benetke Tower was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for a hydroelectric reservoir.

Lota, Chile

Lota also has Chile's oldest hydroelectric power station, the Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant, designed by Thomas Edison and built in 1897.

Lufira River

The river was dammed in 1926 at Mwadingusha near Likasi to form Lake Tshangalele, a reservoir for a hydroelectric generator supplying power for copper smelting.

Marmelo

Marmelos Zero Power Plant, a decommissioned hydroelectric power plant on the Paraibuna River in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Matiri Project

The Matiri Project is a hydroelectric scheme proposed by New Zealand Energy Limited for Lake Matiri and the Matiri River in the South Island of New Zealand.

Mighty River Power

The company owns and operates the hydroelectric generating stations on the Waikato River as well as geothermal plants in the Taupo area, the gas fired (combined cycle) Southdown plant in south Auckland and the largely unused plant (Marsden A and Marsden B) at Marsden Point near Whangarei.

Muddy Run

Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility, a hydroelectric generation facility on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania

New Zealand State Highway 30

Here, the highway meets the Waikato River at the top of Lake Maraetai, and follows the river upstream to Whakamaru, where it crosses the Waikato on top of the Whakamaru hydroelectric dam.

Novar House

Novar Estate extends to 20,000 acres (80 km²) between the Allt Graad and the River Alness and incorporates farming, forestry, open hill, traditional country sports, fishing, over 150 miles of paths and tracks, a hydroelectric scheme and the first wind farm in the Highlands.

Ole Christian Axelsen

Selurafossen, the waterfall from lake Lake Selura, had provided an opportunity for development of hydroelectric power for industry.

Roaring Meg

Roaring Meg hydro scheme, a hydroelectric scheme on the Kawarau River in New Zealand

Robert Sterling Yard

In 1920, Congress passed the Water Power Act, which granted licenses to develop hydroelectric projects on federal lands, including national parks.

Silston Cory-Wright

On behalf of Cory-Wright and Salmon, he supervised the installation of Escher Wyss turbines at Lake Coleridge, and many hydroelectric units for English Electric.

This was a similar power station to that planned for the first hydroelectric station to be built by the New Zealand Government, at Lake Coleridge in the South Island.

Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad

However, in 1909, Graves built a hydroelectric dam at Nine Mile Falls, Washington.

Suldal

The Ulla-Førre project of building huge hydroelectric dams in the mountains was initiated in the 1960s.

Sweyhat

These excavations were part of the Tabqa Dam Salvage Project, initiated to save sites threatened by the formation of the impound lake, Lake Assad, behind a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River near the town of Tabqa.

Thác Mơ Hydroelectric Power Plant

The Thác Mơ Hydroelectric Power Plant is a power plant on the Bé River in Đức Hạnh commune of Bù Gia Mập District, Bình Phước Province, Vietnam.

Uno Lamm

Lamm was appointed by ASEA in 1961 to work with General Electric on the Pacific DC Intertie project, which combined long AC and HVDC transmission systems to move electrical energy from the hydroelectric generators of the Pacific Northwest to consumers in southern California.

Upper Siang Hydroelectric Project

The Upper Siang Hydroelectric Project consists of the construction of several hydroelectric power dams in the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Vengalil family

Closely affiliated with the Dewanship of Travancore and related to the royal families of Cochin and Travancore, the Vengalil family were ranked among India's greatest landowners until the rise of the communist government in Kerala, owning such controversial regions as the hydroelectric power center of Kuttiyadi.


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