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![]() Nearly 93 per cent of the total installed capacity in Sri Lanka (both hydro and thermal) is in the hands of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and only around seven per cent is in the hands of Independent Power Producers. Sri Lanka generates two thirds of its electricity from water, and in 2002, after five years of failed monsoons, major cities were facing 1-4 hour preplanned power cuts due to low water levels.
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![]() ASMAE is the new entity created in February, 1999 to manage the wholesale energy market (MAE) in Brazil.
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![]() North West Water which is now part of United Utilities operated all of the water resources across the North West of England such as waste water treatment facilities, water treatment plants, reservoirs, hydroelectric installations, water supply and mains distribution as well as the full remit |
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The Mekong River is the longest river in southeastern Asia. From its source in China's Qinghai Province near the border with Tibet, the Mekong flows generally southeast to the South China Sea, a distance of 4,200 km |
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![]() ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1966 they now have 63 member countries, 2000 employees, and in 2003 approved loans totalling US$6.1 billion. A list of all the energy related projects supported by the Asian Development Bank can be found here. |
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![]() The Turkish Government has gone through a recent program of privatisation and has sold off the operating rights to a large number of power generation and distribution facilities. Turkey does not generate enough power to meet its own requirements and has predicted that by 2010 it will only produce 30% of its demand, the rest being made up through import. 40% of the current installed electricity generating capacity is hydro related. There are 6 principal hydro electric generation facilities in Turkey: Tortum: 5.8MW x 2, 7.7MW x 2 Hirfanli: 32MW x 4 Hasan Ugurlu: 129MW x 4 Keban: 183MW x 8 Kesikkopru: 46.2MW x 2 Gokcekaya: 104.4MW x 3 |
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![]() Itaipu in Brazil is the world's largest power plant of any kind. The plant is located on the Parana River 14 km north of the International Bridge linking Foz do Iguacu, Brazil and Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Planning for the project started in the 1960s, construction started in January 1975, and the first of eighteen 700-MW turbine/generators went on-line in May 1984. The total direct plant investment is estimated to be $11-bil. In 1997, Itaipu generated a record 89.2 TWh of electricity and provided 79% of Paraguay's total electricity supply and just over a quarter of Brazil's total supply. Itaipu was an immense undertaking. The main dam has a height of 196 m and the construction required 12.6-mil cubic meters of concrete -- 15 times the amount used in the Channel Tunnel -- and 478,000 tons of steel. The various dams have a total length of 7,744 m while the water flow through each turbine penstock is equivalent to the normal flow of the Seine River in France. Itaipu was going to be even larger, but plans to add two more 700-MW turbines at a cost of $190-mil were canceled in June 1999.
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![]() Energy from water (hydro) is a very important source of electric power in Tanzania currently accounting for about 67% of total available installed capacity. Tanzania’s total hydroelectric energy potential is in excess of 4.7GW of installed capacity or about 3.2GW of firm capacity. Of this potential installed capacity only about 5% has actually been developed. |
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![]() London Economics is one of Europe's leading specialist economics consultancies and, since 2000, is part of the Indecon International Economic Consultancy Group. London Economics' head office is in London, and works in partnership with the French firm, Stratorg International, which gives it a global reach. London Economics is committed to providing world-class standards of advice and services to private and public sector clients. |
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![]() The National Rivers Authority was formed in 1989 when the ten British water authorities were sold as water service companies to oversea the management of water resources, including rivers and river water quality, fisheries, leisure and pollution control. The National Rivers Authority was Absorbed into the new Environment Agency. |
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![]() The Environment Agency has responsibility across England and Wales for the protection of the environment. This includes issues relating to agriculture, rivers, air quality, industrial pollution to land air and water, solid waste, flooding, fisheries, nuclear power and water resources. |
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![]() The United Nations development Programme (UNDP) operates amongst many, the Electricity Network Rehabilitation Programme (ENRP) across the North of Iraq. The programme includes major repairs to Northern Iraq's two major dams and associated hydro power stations, as well as a survey of the electrical distribution network and preparation of a maser plan for rehabilitation and expansion.
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![]() The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. Some of the largest projects that the World Bank has supported include the Ertan hydroelectric project in China, the Ghazi Barotha hydropower project in Pakistan, the Upper Indravati hydro project in India and the Yacyreta hydroelectric project in Argentina. |
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![]() Lahmeyer International provide independent engineering consultancy services covering the fields of energy, hydropower and water resources. |
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![]() SONEL is the national electricity board for Cameroon who operate a working installed capacity of 1,014,155 KVA, producing 2,780 gwh. SONEL operate 48,000km of 225KV transmission ![]() |
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![]() ELECTROPERU S.A. runs two hydro-electric plants which make up the Mantaro complex, which has an installed capacity of 1008 MW, and a thermal power plant in the northern department of Tumbes, with an installed capacity of 18 MW. The Mantaro hydro-electric complex is the country's leading electricity generator, covering 37.5% of demand in the National Interconnected Electric System (SEIN), Peru's main power grid, while generating capacity is equivalent to 33% of national electricity demand. |
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![]() PB Power (formally Kennedy & Donkin Power Ltd) offers strategic management services in the energy and utility sectors worldwide. We provide advice to decision makers on matters as diverse as industry and regulatory reform; energy and environmental economics; and project development, |
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![]() WAPDA, the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority, was created in 1958 as a Semi-Autonomous Body for the purpose of coordinating and giving a unified direction to the development of schemes in Water and Power Sectors, which were previously being dealt with, by the respective Electricity and Irrigation Department of the Provinces. |
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![]() The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) formally the Institute of Hydrology, aims to advance the science of hydrology through research leading to a better understanding and quantification of the physical, chemical and biological processes comprising the hydrological cycle at local, regional and global scales; to investigate through monitoring and modelling natural changes in the hydrological environment and to assess past, present and future effects of man's impact on all phases of the hydrological cycle; to secure, expand and provide hydrologically relevant data so as to further scientific research and provide a basis for advice to Government and to promote the use of CEH's research and data to enhance the United Kingdom's industrial competitiveness and quality of life and for the benefit of mankind. |
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