Netherlands-Based firm, Brakel Corporation, which was facing cancellation of two mega hydro-electric projects

As the governments of Argentina and Brazil are taking a new look at the Garabi hydroelectric project, initially planned in 1972, environmentalists are calling attention to the dam's potential harm to

Following opposition at a public hearing, Canada's environment minister has blocked a run-of-river type hydro facility proposed to be built on the Upper Pitt river in the province of British

Hydel power exploitation in the state sector will get a major boost with the Asian Development Bank sanctioning a loan Rs 3,200 crore to the government for the execution of three major power projects.

The World Bank is considering providing $6 million for Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) to develop an enabling environment for hydropower business in Pakistan. According to WB sources, the component will build the capacity of the Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF), in particular the new water cell tasked with developing financing strategies for water sector programmes and hydropower infrastructure and with providing advice on a variety of financial, fiscal, legal and regulatory issues.

51st Hydro product committee meeting of BHEL, Bhopal held the other day. Executive Director, RK Singh in his inaugural address forcing on production of high capacity hydro set and seeing the demand of electricity in the year 2007-08 said that in coming days 250mw and more high capacity set would be required in northern area and we would have to ready for the same. He told that BHEL would have to increase its capacity for taking civil work with project with the help of computer networking.

A girl cheers up amidst the gathered crowd at the public rally addressed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Kishtwar A A girl cheers up amidst the gathered crowd at the public rally addressed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Kishtwar on Saturday after inaugurating the hydel project. A Tribune photo Kishtwar, April 26

Assam is reeling under severe power crisis as the shortfall in availability of power during the peak load hours is around 230 MW and it is around 170 MW during the off-peak load hours, forcing the Assam State Electricity Board to take recourse to frequent power cuts. However, the situation, ASEB sources said, is expected to improve significantly with the 100 MW Karbi Langpi hydel project back on the grid by the first week of May. The project is under shut down for annual maintenance since April 17.

Energy is the lifeline of economic development, but unfortunately, Pakistan has historically suffered from energy shortages and demand suppression because of limited supplies and lack of adequate infrastructure development for provision of energy to the industrial sector. Furthermore, the capacity of Pakistan's existing reservoirs (Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma) has declined by 27 percent and the cumulative decline will increase to 35 percent by 2012 and to 57 percent by 2025.

Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is vigorously carrying out feasibility studies and engineering designs of various hydropower projects with accumulative generation capacity of more than 25,000 MW and most of these studies are at the advance stage of their completion.