Spanish water reserves, needed to reduce the country's dependence on gas imports, had notice a decrease, according to official data showed on Tuesday, however the levels are above the average, being helped by very heavy rainfall in winter and spring time.
read more... 27/10/2010
Norway's state-owned company, Statkraft announced Thursday that it would invest $400 million in a hydropower plant in Peru with a capacity of 168-megawatt, and announced intentions of further investing in Chile, but it is targeting the Brazilian market as well.
read more... 01/10/2010
Carlos Feijo, Angola’s Minister of State, announced that his government is planning to invest 18 billion USD to 2016 to rebuild its dams that were destroyed in their three-decade long civil war. This investment is going to be, till now, the country’s biggest one in the energy sector.
read more... 24/09/2010
Romanian hydropower company Hidroelectrica will invest 3 billion Euros over the next seven years in building 50 new units and upgrading several current ones.
read more... 10/09/2010
Austrian utility EVN intends to take the majority stake in the Bulgarian hydropower project launched by NEK, the largest state energy utility in the country.
read more... 21/07/2010