HydroWorld: DOE awards millions for marine and hydrokinetic energy technology

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Hydro Headlines DOE awards millions for marine and hydrokinetic energy technology WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu announces selections for more than US37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies. PPL to sell selected assets, including hydropower shares ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- PPL Corporation reaches an agreement to sell interests in certain non-core generating stations, including shares in one hydropower asset, to LS Power Equity Advisors, an affiliate of LS Power. For more information, click here. Featured video of the week Video: An interview with Selim Chacour, American Hydro Call for abstracts announced for HydroVision Brazil TULSA, Okla. -- HydroVision Brazil, planned for Sept. 20-22, 2011, at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, is now accepting abstract submissions for the 2011 conference program. More News • U.S. awards station service rehab contract for Garrison Dam hydro project • Wave Hub marine energy project installed off coast of England New Development Hidropaute awards contract for Sopladora hydro project in Ecuador QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador's state hydro generator Hidropaute awards consortium China Gezhouba Group-Fopeca the contract to build and put into operation the 487-MW Sopladora hydropower project. For more information, click here. Damlapinar hydropower project in Turkey begins commercial operations KARAMAN, Turkey -- Commercial operations begin at the 16-MW Damlapinar hydropower plant on the Goksu River in Karaman, Turkey. More New Development • EIA filed for Chile small hydro project Technology & Equipment Equipment innovations improve operations, decrease costs At three hydro projects in Europe, owners apply innovations and make modifications designed to make the best use of turbines. Izhorskiye Zavody manufactures hydro generator stator shells for hydropower plants in Russia ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Izhorskiye Zavody, part of OMZ Group, manufactures two hydro generator stator shells for Russia's Boguchanskaya and Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plants. For more information, click here. Tech Briefs: Weir at Little Goose improves fish passage efficiency The temporary spillway weir (TSW) installed at the 810-MW Little Goose hydro project provides high probabilities of juvenile salmon and steelhead spill passage survival and high spill passage effectiveness, says Chris A. Pinney, fisheries biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In Focus Atlantis deploys tidal turbine at European Marine Energy Centre ORKNEY, Scotland -- Marine hydro firm Atlantis Resources Corporation successfully deploys its AK1000 tidal turbine - which Atlantis calls the world's largest rotor diameter tidal turbine - on its subsea berth at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland. And More! • PPL Montana dedicates fish ladder at Thompson Falls dam and hydro plant • India lowers capacity requirements for hydro project grid connection • ADB to issue bond to support clean energy, including hydropower HYDROWORLD SPONSORED EVENTS Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo Asia Singapore November 2-4, 2010 Click Here for Details POWER-GEN International Orlando, Fla. December 14-16, 2010 Click Here for Details Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America Tampa, Florida, USA March 8-10, 2011 Click Here for Details Share: HydroWorld Weekly Brought to you by

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