The Egyptian government is discussing plans to upgrade the country’s major hydropower stations and strengthen the national electricity grid as part of efforts to expand renewable energy generation.
Zimbabwe has agreed to allow Zesco, Zambia’s state power utility, to draw additional water from the Kariba Dam to allow it to sustain electricity generation after the company exhausted its 2025 allocation.
China has replaced the programmable logic controllers (PLCs) supplied by Siemens and Schneider Electric at the 13.86 GW Xiluodo Dam, replacing them with Chinese-made PLCs.
JSW Energy has announced that it has successfully commissioned the first 80 MW unit of its 240 MW Kutehr Hydropower Plant in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, India.
ZESCO has signed a 25-year PPA with Lufubu Power Company (LPC) to secure 163 MW of hydropower from a new plant in Zambia’s Northern Province.
Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the operating company for the Cahora Bassa Dam, has announced that it is looking at Eskom of South Africa as a potential customer for the planned additional 1245 MW generation capacity at the facility.
Ethiopia has announced the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), located on the Blue Nile near the Sudanese border.
China has built the first of two 500 MW impulse turbines for the Datang Zala Hydropower Station in Tibet autonomous region.
First Hydro Company, a 75:25 joint venture between ENGIE and the Canadian investor CDPQ, is carrying out a £1 billion refurbishment at the Dinorwig and Ffestiniog hydro pumped storage facilities in North Wales.
Stephen Leece, Minister of Energy and Mines for the Canadian province of Ontario, announced that two new hydropower plants will be built in northern Ontario in partnership with Moose Cree First Nation, Takwa Tagamou Nation, and Ontario Power Generation (OPG).