A Shrewsbury group spearheading plans to generate green electricity from Castlefields weir is on track to win a £15,000 grant as the deadline for voting approaches.

UNDP works with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development to implement the micro-hydro-power projects. The new hydro energy sources have produced an uptick in the economies of the affected areas, since small businesses – such as tailoring shops run out of homes – can now work more efficiently and, if they choose, keep longer hours.

The success of three apprentice mini-hydroelectric projects success will pave way for hydro power in Malaysian rural villages

In Depth: Turning a twin-corkscrew turbine into ‘beautiful’ reality
The first twin-corkscrew tidal-power turbines is now turning at the European Marine Energy Centre (Emec) testing site off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, having gone from drawing board to deployment of a full-scale prototype in less than 15 months.

WARBURTON’S proposed micro-hydro energy project has been featured at a national power conference in Bendigo that is going to be model for micro hydro power

Interest in hydropower has increased in the UK in the past year, partly because of the introduction of the Feed-in Tariff in Britain, and as a direct result of dwindling fossil fuel supplies pushing up energy prices.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a EUR3m loan to Energy Partners to finance the construction of two small hydropower plants in north-eastern part of Albania.

The River Leven hydro power station is being driven by two massive hydro screws built by the company behind the world’s largest Archimedes screw hydro power station in Teesside.

“More than 60 percent of our GDP comes from hydro-power,” Bhutan’s Prime Minister Jigme Thinley told CNN. He says the clean energy business is a perfect fit for the country.

OSCE Supports Development of OSCE Supports Development of Small Hydro-Power Sector in Armenia