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Newfoundland and Labrado and Québec have reached a new agreement on hydropower from Churchill Falls that includes developing Gull Island.

Economic development awards to 20 firms will spur more than $940 million in capital investments and support 1,774 jobs in New York State.

Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization, called the existing environmental study "flawed," and argued that revising the study should lead to changes in the Columbia Basin that would help prevent extinction and restore imperiled salmon and steelhead populations.

The Town of Stowe Electric Department's plan is one of seven projects receiving funding through the Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program.

The contract also includes rail replacement and refurbishment, conductor bus bar system replacement, and power feeder replacements.

The U.S. hydropower industry faces a "wave of retirements," WPTO said, and these efforts are meant to help build the workforce needed to ensure this resource continues to provide renewable power across the country.

Inyanga's new company will provide marine engineering and offshore operations support to the renewable energy industry in Canada, across both the offshore wind and tidal energy sectors.

If constructed, the dam would generate up to three times more energy than China's Three Gorges Dam, currently the largest hydroelectric project in the world.

Puerto Rico Hydro Microgrid Partners has been selected as a winner of the Solutions for Lasting, Viable Energy Infrastructure Technologies (SOLVE IT) Prize for its plan to improve community resiliency with small hydroelectric powered microgrids for low-resourced, rural communities in Puerto Rico.

The decommissioning project, contracted by EMEC, involved a range of marine services and the dismantling the platform's steel superstructure - including two 18-tonne steel piles- drilled and grouted into the seabed.