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A micro-hydro power plant has eased the life of villagers in Nangarhar province, enabling children to study at night and families to use computers and cell phones. The power plant was made possible by ...

Snowmass Village is a community that loves gravity: It’s what gets skiers from the top of the mountain to the bottom in the winter and what gets downhill mountain bikers from point A to point B on ...

Installation of a micro-hydropower station on a stream in Serai has brought electricity to the people of the remote village in the highlands of the Upper Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan for the ...

A hydroelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing the kinetic energy of running water. Now you can not only find stationary larger-scale hydroelectric generators but also portable micro ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2003 — The e7, a group of energy companies, has finalized plans to construct a micro-hydro power plant to bring electricity for the first time to Chendebji, a small, remote ...

The Scott Hydro 1500W Water Turbine is a new innovative answer to converting running water into electricity. This micro-hydro turbine is designed as a dependable energy source that creates electricity ...

Hengbung, a remote village in Manipur, has a first-of-its-kind utility worth replicating elsewhere too — a micro solar pumped storage facility supplying 24x7 power to 50 households. Today, large-scale ...

The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011 (S. 629) was introduced last week by Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and co-sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). The ...

PITKIN COUNTY ” Pitkin County commissioners are pondering a code amendment that will make it easier to build micro-hydroelectric plants. On Monday, the board visited a proposed plant site along ...

Rooftops with arrays of tiny wind-powered microturbines and hydro microturbines generating power as water flows through municipal drinking water systems or the outflow of municipal sewage treatment ...

The mighty Mississippi River may become even more powerful – if an electricity-generating, 12-foot-in-diameter turbine as expected gets installed under a barge near Lock & Dam No. 2 in Hastings. The ...