Hydro/Tidal&Wave

IFC and Partners Hold Workshop on Hydropower Project Financing in Nepal

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the Independent Power Producers’ Association of Nepal, the Nepal Banker’s Association, and the Nepal Hydropower Association today held a workshop on hydropower project financing to help promote investments in the sector.

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Portugal builds world’s first commercial wave farm

What would you do if you ran out of land for wind farms to meet your ambitious renewable energy targets? Well, if you are Portugal, you get creative and build the world’s first wave farm off your coast. The intrepid country is poised to open what will be the world’s first commercial wavefarm, off the coast of northern Portugal at Agucadoura, where the expected total output of the plant will be enough to power around 2,000 homes....

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Renewable Energy via River, Tidal, and Wave Power

Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Earth Policy Institute) Roughly 16 percent of the world’s electricity comes from hydropower, most of it from large dams. Some countries such as Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo get most of their electricity from river power. Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as opposition built because of the displacement of people and inundation of productive land. ...

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Keeping Sights On Big Breakers With Radar: Scientists Study Waves On North Sea Research Platform

Scientists of the Geesthacht GKSS Research Centre have developed a radar system with which it is possible to study the behaviour of sea waves. This technology will be used immediately on the North Sea on the FINO3 research platform in order to determine the interactions between offshore wind power machines and swells....

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