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Costa Rica adds hydroelectric dam to clean energy grid
June 17, 2016
After six years of construction, Costa Rica’s USD 1.4 billion Reventazon Hydroelectric Project is almost fully online. Three of the facility’s four turbines are functioning, each pumping out 73 MW of electricity, and the fourth will join them in August. At full capacity the facility creates enough energy to supply 525,000 families with power. The […]
Cuban hydro project financed by Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
April 26, 2016
The Cuban energy sector will get a boost this year after a deal signed with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development will provide financing for the construction of 34 small hydropower projects. These projects will use existing infrastructure to provide a capacity of 14.6 MW of hydropower to the Caribbean island and three linking […]
Brazil planning first floating solar farms at hydropower plants
December 16, 2015
Brazil is using nascent technology to expand the production of renewable energy, with plans to build 10 MW of solar farms that will float atop two hydropower dams. The farms will be attached to the Sobradinho and Balbina dams in Bahia and Amazonas, respectively, and will be controlled by Brazilian utility companies, Centrais Eletricas do […]
Costa Rica inaugurates 50-MW hydroelectric plant
November 26, 2015
A new 50-MW hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica will reprocess water discharged from two existing hydropower plants. According to Salvador Gabarro of Gas Natural Fenosa, the company that won the bid to from the ICE to develop the project in 2008, “This power plant represents the efforts of our energy group to bring continuity to […]
Enel commissions 400MW hydropower plant in Colombia
October 15, 2015
Emgesa, a subsidy of Enel, has commission a 400 MW hydropower plant in Colombia. Once the completed, the $1.2 billion plant, which will generate 2.2 TWh per year, will meet 4% of Colombia’s electric needs. According to Enel CEO, Francesco Starace, the plant, “has already recorded a number of firsts. It is the most impressive […]
Hydrothermal Energy Potential in Jamaica
August 3, 2015
According to Silbert Barrett, a Sustainable Strategist at Brittenwoods International, a Trans-Caribbean Hydrothermal Power Plant could generate 52 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. Accessing the super-heated undersea hydrothermal vents that are located between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Mid-Cayman Trough, would take approximately $140 billion dollars and 450,000 workers. If successfully completed, […]
Hydropower Study in Guatemala Funded by CABEI
August 1, 2015
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), co-host of the Central American Renewables Investment Summit, will provide financial assistance totaling $80,000 to conduct a study for a mini hydropower plant in the Southern Coast region of Guatemala. The pre-investment study is funded by the Accelerating Renewable Energy Investment in Central America and Panama (ARECA), a […]
Nicaraguense de Electricidad Seeks Hydroelectric Plant Equipment
June 7, 2015
Nicaragua’s utility, Nicaraguense de Electricidad (ENEL) has released a tender for a supplier of plant equipment for the rehabilitation of two 50 MW hydroelectric projects. The project is funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and others.