Argentina's 9.4-MW Salto Andersen hydropower project in Rio Negro province has started supplying power to the national grid, wire services reported. The construction contract for the small hydro project was awarded to Spanish group Isolux Corsan in a public tender. Investment in the project is expec

Germany-based RWE Innogy and Serbian energy utility Elektroprivreda Srbije have formed a joint venture for the development of hydropower plants in Belgrade, RWE reported. In the years to come, the joint venture company, "Moravske hidroelektrane d.o.o.," is to develop five run-of-river small hydro pl

Chile's government needs to reform existing classifications for run-of-river hydropower projects in order to achieve its target of 20 percent non-conventional renewable capacity by 2020, the country's former energy minister Ricardo Raineri told news services. Current energy laws stipulate that hydro

The Mpanga hydroelectric power project in Kamwenge District, Uganda, is now operational, news agencies reported. The construction of the (US$13 million) project began in 2007 under the funding of South Asian Energy System contracted by a Sri Lankan-based NGO VSHYDRO, media reports indicate. Mpanga s

Construction work at the 20-MW Alto Tulua and Bajo Tulua small hydro projects in Colombia's Valle de Cuaca department are 84.3 percent and 68.5 percent complete respectively, hydropower generator Epsa announced. Both hydropower plants are expected to come online before the end of the year. Construct

The European Bank For Reconstruction and Development will lend Macedonia 6 million euros (US$8.7 million) for small hydropower plant development, news agencies reported. Macedonian PCC Hydro DOOEL Skopje, a renewable energy company owned by German PCC DEG Renewables GmbH, will get the loan for four

The new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA, http://www.irena.org) was established in January 2009. To date, signatories of the organisation’s statute include 48 African, 38 European, 35 Asian, 17 American and 10 Australian/Oceanian states. Mandated by these governments worldwide, IRENA aim