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INTERNATIONAL WATER POWER & DAM CONSTRUCTION JANUARY 2010

JANUARY 2010

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F E A T U R E S

APPOINTMENTS

Executive movements

Details of the latest appointments in the industry

ENVIRONMENT

Removing Savage Rapids Dam

The 88-year-old Savage Rapids dam was removed

following concerns with fish passage and screening

PROJECT FINANCE

Hydro set to ease economic woes

What potential does hydro have in the US?

Aiming high in the low-carbon economy

Attracting investment into the renewables industry

EQUIPMENT

Rockfill production in Turkey

Drill rigs help produce material for Gokcebel dam

New Technology

The latest product developments

DESIGN

Avalanche dams

Researching the design of catching and deflecting dams

Under control

An ovation expert control system has been installed at

pumped storage projects in Korea

Finding a replacement

Designing a dam in an environmentally sensitive a

DAM SAFETY

The relationship between large dams and seismicity

Can large dams trigger earthquakes?

Behaviour management

Investigating the behaviour of Sayano-Shushenskaya

dam following the fatal accident in August 2009

4 JANUARY 2010 INTERNATIONAL WATER POWER & DAM CONSTRUCTION

WORLD NEWS

EINTRODUCTION PROGRAMS

led by the Yakama Nation and

funded in part by the Bonneville

Power Administration, combined with

restored habitat, improved dam

passage and positive ocean condi-

tions in the Columbia River Basin,

have brought unrivalled numbers of

coho salmon back to the rivers and

streams, according to recently con-

cluded annual counts.

Ten years ago, 12 adult coho

returned past Rock Island Dam near

Wenatchee, Washington. This year,

19,805 passed the dam. Returns

past McNary Dam near Hermiston,

Oregon, climbed from 4736 coho a

decade ago to 33,385 this year – by

far the most since counting began at

the dam in 1954.

The rise in adult coho returning past

seven or more mainstem Columbia

dams to spawn this winter in upriver

tributaries exceeds all expectations,

said Tom Scribner, the Yakama

Nation’s project leader. While most

of the ﬁsh came from hatcheries, an

expanding share comes from natural

spawning that biologists hope will res-

urrect self-sustaining wild stocks.

The return of spawning coho to

the upper Columbia reﬂects the suc-

cess of a pioneering reintroduction

strategy that no one had attempted

before. The program is funded by BPA,

Chelan County Public Utility District,

Grant County Public Utility District and

NOAA-Fisheries.

Biologists began rekindling the

upriver runs in the 1990s with hatch-

ery-bred ﬁsh from the lower Columbia,

since no local coho adapted to the

upper Columbia were left. Some

wondered whether lower river fish,

after many generations in hatcheries,

could rebuild runs that would have

to migrate hundreds of miles farther

up the Columbia, past several major

dams.

“There was a question whether it

was really possible to do this so far

above the dams,” said Roy Beaty,

BPA’s project manager for upper

Columbia coho restoration. “We really

didn’t know whether the fish could

swim that far.”

Irrigation diversions and develop-

ment wiped out some 90% of native

coho from the middle and upper

Columbia during the late 1800s. A

remnant population hung on but large-

ly vanished by about 1980. Upriver

coho did not receive protection under

the Endangered Species Act, since

none were left to protect.

BPA now funds the coho restora-

tion program through the Columbia

River Fish Accords and is completing

an environmental impact statement

assessing the construction and long-

term operation of program facilities.

Record ﬁsh returns boost

Columbia River restoration

WORLD

NEWS

WORLD

NEWS

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UK’s ETI in subsea cable project

HE UK’S ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

Institute (ETI) has announced

details of a project that could

considerably reduce the cost of

cabling from offshore tidal and wind

farms to the shore.

This 18-month project, cost-

ing £1.1M (US$1.77M) and led by

MacArtney, will develop an 11kV wet-

mate connector, which will be tested

and demonstrated under workshop

and real-sea conditions.

The connectors enable two power

cables to be linked together. Currently,

marine device developers either use

dry-mate connectors, which have to be

lifted out of the water and connected

on a barge, or they use a 6.6kV wet-

mate connector which is not a high

enough voltage rating for efficient

transmission of maximum outputs

from devices back to shore.

The use of these higher voltage

wet-mate connectors in future arrays

is expected to lead to considerably

lower installation, operating and main-

tenance costs, and more rapid deploy-

ment of marine energy arrays . They will

enable the use of remotely operated

vehicles to perform electrical connec-

tions on the sea-bed instead of having

to deploy barges to perform these con-

nections above the surface.

The increase in voltage rating to

11kV could significantly reduce the

capital costs associated with offshore

energy installations since higher volt-

age connectors allow more power to be

transmitted per cable.

“Developing wet-mate connectors

with a signiﬁcantly higher kV rating will

considerably reduce the cost of tidal

and energy arrays by cutting the cable

costs to shore and simplifying device

installation,” said ETI Chief Executive

Dr David Clarke. “Although it’s esti-

mated that marine energy could supply

up to 2GW of UK electricity demand by

2020 and signiﬁcantly more by 2050,

the electricity costs need to be more

competitive with established renew-

able and conventional generation.

“Achieving significant operating

cost reduction is critical to the long-

term development and success of

the marine energy industry in the UK.

Projects of this nature will beneﬁt any

marine device developer and it has

the potential to beneﬁt other offshore

energy installations.”

ATTENFALL HAS UNDERLINED

its ambitions in the marine energy

market with the announcement

of plans to develop a major wave power

farm near the UK’s Shetland Islands.

The Swedish energy giant has

launched a joint venture with Pelamis

Wave Power, the Edinburgh-based

technology firm, to develop a plant

that could achieve an installed capac-

ity of 20MW by 2014.

The move follows the acquisition

earlier this year by Vattenfall of a 51%

stake in Pandion Ltd., an ocean energy

site development. That deal could see

the Swedish ﬁrm develop wave power

stations with Wavebob, which owns

the remaining 49% of Pandion.

Vattenfall and Pelamis’ joint venture

firm, Aegir Wave Power Ltd., says that

its proposed project could use up to

25 Pelamis P2 machines and could be

expanded to a “much greater capacity”.

It has already announced information

meetings for local representatives on the

Shetland Islands, where waters have “very

close to ideal conditions” for wave energy.

Pelamis’ technology consists of

150-180m-long floating tubes that

move with the waves.

Generators positioned between the

different sections of the tubes transform

the tubes’ movement into energy.

Vattenfall says that if planning con-

sents are granted for the proposed

project, and the planned Shetland-

Scotland subsea cable is constructed

on time, the project could achieve

20MW of output by 2014.

800kV DC link

in operation

N LATE DECEMBER LAST YEAR

Siemens Energy and China

Southern Power Grid put into opera-

tion the ﬁrst pole of an HVDC system

of unprecedented scale and mag-

nitude and created two new bench-

marks in HVDC technology. With a

capacity of 5000MW and covering

a distance of more than 1400km

the Yunnan-Guangdon transmission

system is the world’s most powerful

of its kind to have been implemented.

At the same time it is the ﬁrst HVDC

link operating at a transmission volt-

age of 800 kV. Commissioning of the

second pole and startup of the full

system is scheduled for mid-2010.

China has raised the DC voltage of

its new long-distance HVDC links to

800kV in order to reduce transmission

losses and to be able to bridge even

greater distances than the 1000 km or

so that has already been achieved in

several long distance lines. This inter-

connector will serve to transmit power

generated by several hydro power

plants in central China to the rapidly

growing industrial region in the Pearl

River delta in Guangdong Province

with its megacities Guangzhou and

Shenzhen. This system can reduce

by over 30 megatonnes annual CO2

emissions that would otherwise have

been produced by additional fossil-

fueled power plants linked to the

interconnected grid.

Vattenfall and Pelamis in marine deal

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WORLD NEWS

Areva wins Maderia transmission contract

In brief

THE US BUREAU OF

Reclamation has awarded

Triad Mechanical Inc a

US$806,496 contract

for improvements to the

Roza Diversion Dam

in Washington state,

US. The improvements,

funded under the American

Recovery and Reinvestment

Act of 2009 (ARRA), will

involve replacing the bot-

tom and side seals of the

existing west roller gate at

the dam, and adding a new

horizontal seal to the bot-

tom of the gate.

THE WESTERN

Australian Government

has awarded a $40M

contract to Wellington

Dam Alliance for upgrade

work at the 70-year-

old Wellington Dam,

as part of the Water

Corporation’s ongoing

State-wide dam reme-

dial works programme.

The successful contrac-

tor is a JV of Leighton

Contractors, AECOM,

Hydro Tasmania and

Structural System

Limited, working with

the Corporation. As part

of the work, a series of

high-tensile steel cables

will be installed vertically

through the wall into the

bedrock below to enhance

the dam’s stability.

ABITIBIBOWATER INC

has closed the sale of its

60% indirect interest

in the 335MW hydro-

electric facility currently

owned and operated by

Manicouagan Power

Company (MPCo) to

Hydro-Quebec for gross

proceeds of C$615M. The

other hydro power assets

owned by AbitibiBowater

are unaffected by the

transaction.

N G I N E E R I N G FI R M GE I

Consultants has been selected

by PPL Montana to provide eco-

logical engineering services for the

construction of its $7M full height ﬁsh

ladder – the ﬁrst of its kind in the US

– at the Thompson Falls Hydroelectric

Plant in Thompson Falls, Montana.

The project, which is being con-

structed specifically to provide

over-dam passage for bull trout,

was developed as a collaborative

effort through an inter-agency, multi-

disciplinary team composed of PPL

Montana; the US Fish and Wildlife

Service; Montana Fish, Wildlife and

Parks; Montana Department of

Environmental Quality; the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission; the

Confederated Salish and Kootenai

Tribes; GEI Consultants, and others.

GEI provided technical assist-

ance to the team by performing ﬁsh

behaviour studies in the tailrace and

assessing the feasibility of a range of

alternatives. Study results were pre-

sented to the inter-agency team for

a consensus decision on a preferred

alternative. GEI provided further sup-

port to the owner and inter-agency

team by designing the facility and

assisting with construction oversight.

The construction of the Thompson

Falls Upstream Fish Passage project will

allow migratory ﬁsh to swim upstream

of a dam on the Clark Fork River in

Thompson Falls, Montana for the ﬁrst

time in nearly one hundred years. The

bull trout, which has been identiﬁed as

a threatened species by the US Fish

and Wildlife Service since 1998, was

once common throughout the Pacific

Northwest, but is now found in small

numbers in their native range including

the Clark Fork River in western Montana.

Because of their dependence on a high

quality habitat, the existence of bull trout

is seen as an indicator of stream health.

A “threatened” species is deﬁned as

one that is likely to become endangered

in the foreseeable future.

The new fish ladder facilities will

allow bull trout to ascend 48ft over the

existing dam structure through 48 indi-

vidual concrete step pools. The facili-

ties will also have a ﬁsh lock, which is

an elevator-like structure that can lift

ﬁsh up to a sampling platform where

biologists have the ability to physically

track the success of the project and

obtain valuable scientific data. The

project will allow ﬁsh access to hun-

dreds of miles of free-ﬂowing rivers and

spawning tributaries in the Clark Fork

River. Data generated at the project

will be used by the inter-agency team

to enhance bull trout restoration efforts

in the Clark Fork River basin.

Construction of the ﬁsh passage

project began in July 2009 and is

anticipated to be complete during the

summer of 2010.

GEI to work on Thompson

Falls ﬁsh ladder construction

Milestone for Theun Hinboun Expansion

N IMPORTANT MILESTONE HAS

been reached at the Theun

Hinboun Expansion project with

the successful closure of the river

channel for the Nam Gnouang dam

on 7 December.

Flow has now been diverted through

the diversion channel in preparation

for placement of RCC for the main

dam body, which is expected to start

in February 2010. Preparations for

the launch of a tunnel boring machine

with 6.9m internal diameter are also

reaching their conclusion, with the

tunnel bore scheduled to start later

this month. The TBM (pictured far

left) will be used for construction of

the main headrace tunnel for the new

220MW station.

Resettlement activities for the

project are well advanced with the

first phase having been completed

before the 2009 rainy season started

in May. The second phase of reset-

tlement will take start over the next

few months.

The Theun Hinboun Expansion

project, being developed by the Theun

Hinboun Power Company, comprises

a 70m high RCC dam, a 60MW power

station at the dam, a 5500m long

headrace tunnel and a new 220MW

power station adjacent to the existing

220 MW power station.

Construction started in October

of 2008 with the main civil works

on the project being performed by

CMC di Ravenna and the electrical

and mechanical equipment supply by

Andritz Hydro.

REVA T&D HAS BEEN AWARDED

a US$400M contract by IE

Maderia for work on a 600kV

HVDC transmission link for the

Maderia hydro complex in Brazil.

The Madeira complex in the

Amazon region is comprised of two

hydroelectric power plants - Santo

Antonio and Jirau – and has a total

power capacity of 6300MW. Power

from the project will be transmitted

through two HVDC bipoles from the

northwest to the southeast of Brazil,

allowing the integration to the SIN

(National Interconnected System)

and the utilization of the energy

throughout Brazil. IE Madeira is

responsible for 1 of the bipoles, with

supply from Areva.

The bipole and its two converter

stations will transform AC to DC with

the capacity to transfer 3150MW from

the Porto Velho (Rondonia) collector

substation in the Amazon region, to

the Araraquara II substation in Sao

Paulo, Brazil, where it is converted

back to AC.

Areva’s contract includes all the

equipment, engineering, erection

supervision, pre-commissioning and

commissioning for the convertor sta-

tions, which will be delivered for com-

mercial operation in April 2013.

6 JANUARY 2010 INTERNATIONAL WATER POWER & DAM CONSTRUCTION

WORLD NEWS

In brief

THE GOVERNMENTS OF

Norway and Ethiopia have

signed a $40M agreement to

help fund the development of

hydro power resources in the

African country, including

the Mandaya and Bako-

Ambo multipurpose projects.

Approximately $35M of the

agreed grants will be used

to fund feasibility studies

of the Mandayo and Bako-

Ambo schemes, which are

planned for the Ethiopian

regional state of Oromia.

The remaining funds will

be used on a collaboration

project between Hawassa

and Mekelle Universities and

the Norweigian University of

Life Sciences to study ways

to improve the livelihoods of

rural communities in the arid

highlands of Ethiopia.

SN POWER OF NORWAY

has won a contract to build

the US$300M Cheves

hydroelectric project in Peru’s

Lima region. Construction

work on the 168.2MW plant

is expected to start early next

year, with completion sched-

uled for July 2014. As part of

its contract, SN Power will

also build a 220kW transmis-

sion line for the project.

A CONSORTIUM LED

by Korea Electric Power

Corporation (KEPCO) has

signed a memorandum

of understanding with

the energy department

of Georgia to develop a

$1B hydro power scheme

in the country. Under

the agreement, KEPCO,

together with South

Korea’s SK Engineering

& Construction Co and

Turkey’s Nuroli, will devel-

op three hydro plants in

Namakhvani on the river

Rioni in the Tsageri district

of western Georgia., with a

total capacity of 450MW.

CEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES

Inc (OPT) has selected Oregon

Iron Works (OIW) to begin

construction of its ﬁrst commercial

wave energy PowerBuoy system in

North America, to be installed off the

Oregon coast near Reedsport.

Co n s tr u c ti o n of t h is f i rs t

PowerBuoy system represents Phase

One of an expected 10-PowerBuoy

Reedsport wave power station, the

ﬁrst commercial-scale facility of its

type in North America, which will

generate approximately 1.5MW.

The nine additional PowerBuoys will

be constructed and installed under

Phase Two of the project.

OPT and OIW estimate that con-

struction of the ﬁrst PowerBuoy PB150

wave energy device, rated at a capac-

ity of 150kW, will create or sustain

approximately 30 jobs over the next

nine months.

OPT is currently in the advanced

stages of completing its ﬁrst PB150 in

the UK for deployment in the Orkneys,

Scotland mid next year. The technology

development for this device will also be

applied for projects in North America.

Back in October last year, OPT

announced it had also signed an exclu-

sive agreement with a Japanese con-

sortium comprising Idemitsu Kosan

Co, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding

Co and Japan Wind Development Co to

develop a demonstration wave power

station in Japan.

The initial phase of the project

would be to identify favourable sites

for OPT wave power stations and

assess their commercial prospects.

The parties would then enter into

an agreement to build a demonstra-

tion plant with up to three of OPT’s

PowerBuoys units. The trial plant

would provide the basis for the expect-

ed building of a commercial-scale sta-

tion of 10MW capacity, or more.

OPT awards PowerBuoy

construction deal

C O N S O R T I U M L E D B Y

Italy’s Impregilo and includ-

ing Columbian companies

Conalvias and Tecnica Vial, has been

awarded the tender to build a hydro-

electric plant on the river Sogamoso

in northwestern Columbia.

The project, worth approximately

EUR 345M, involves the construction

of a 190m high, 300m long dam and

an underground power station that will

house three turbines totalling 820MW

of installed power.

Impregilo is already carrying out

preliminary work for the dam, which

involves building wo diversion tunnels

870m in length and 11m in diameter

and the system of access tunnels and

roads to the underground power sta-

tion, worth a further EUR 55M euro.

The tender was awarded by Isagen,

a mixed public/private concession

holder active in power generation in

Columbia.

Earlier this week, it was announced

that the Andean Development

Corporation (CAF) has approved a

US$140M loan for Isagen to cofi-

nance construction of project, which

will be one of the ﬁve largest power

generating plants in the country upon

its completion in 2014.

Sogamoso will increase the power

generating capacity of Isagen by 38%

from its current 2132MW. Located

in Santander in northwest Colombia,

the US$1.74B project will contribute

5056GWh/year to the national power

grid, equivalent to 50% of the con-

sumption of Bogota and about 10%

of the power consumed in the country

in a year.

Impregilo began operating in

Columbia in 1966 with the construc-

tion of the ﬁrst hydroelectric plant in

Guatapé. It is currently construct-

ing another three hydro plants in

Venezuela, Ecuador and South Africa.

Impregilo-led consortium to build Sogamoso

USSIA’S POWER MACHINES

will supply hydro-mechanical

equipment to the damaged

Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro plant in

Siberia following the recent signing

of a Rub 11.7B (US$399M) contract

with project owner RusHydro.

Under the contract, Power

Machines will prepare 10 turbine gen-

erator units each with a capacity of

640MW and six excitation systems.

Specialists from the company will

also demonstrate installation moni-

toring services and carry out set up

and initial operation work.

Production of the first unit is

planned for January 2011 and addi-

tional production will be carried out

on two to two-and-a-half month inter-

vals. In total, six new hydro-units

will be produced in 2001, with the

remainder scheduled for 2012.

The new hydro-units’ operational

lifespan will be up to 40 years – a

25% increase compared to previ-

ous units – and they will operate at

96.6% efﬁciency. The turbines will be

ﬁtted with more effective protection

to enable automatic work stoppages

when output exceeds the regimes’

limits. The capacity of the new hydro-

units will be within the same limits as

those that previously operated at the

hydro power plant

Power Machines is currently work-

ing on fulﬁlling a large order for the

Boguchanskaya hydro power plant,

which will see the company deliver

nine 333MW turbine generator units.

Bringing the Boguchanskaya units

on line is seen as the most effective

way of quickly replacing capacity lost

at Sayano-Shushenskaya, following

the fatal accident which occurred on

17 August.

New turbines

for Russia plant

TRATEGIC POWER Development

Corp has been named the win-

ning bidder for the National

Hydropower Corporation’s con-

tracted capacity of the San Roque

multipurpose hydroelectric project

in the Philippines, with Amlan Power

Holdings named the highest bidder

for the combined Benguet and Bakun

project capacities.

The Philippines Power Sector

Assets and Liabilities Management

Corporation (Psalm) was reported as

stating that Strategic Power, which

is part of San Miguel Corp, offered

$450M for the 345MW San Roque

project’s contracted capacity during

the bidding today. Amlan, a consor-

tium of local investors, was said to

have bid $145.473M for the capaci-

ties of the 70MW Bakun project and

the 30MW Benguet scheme.

All three projects are located in

Northern Luzon in the Philippines. The

Bakun plant is sited in Alilem, Ilocos

Sur, the Benguet mini-hydro facilities

lie in the Cordillera Administrative

Region province, while the San Roque

hydro plant is based in San Manuel,

Pangasinan.

Winning bidders named for

Philippines project capacities

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WORLD NEWS

Tuffboom barrier to aid upgrade

work at Keepit dam, Australia

In brief

MEMBERS OF THE

James Smith Cree Nation in

Saskatchewan, Canada, have

voted in favour of developing

the 250MW Pehonan hydro-

electric project. CBC News

reported that approximately

96% of voters in a recent

referendum held by the First

Nation said they wanted

the project to be developed.

Plans have been in place for

the $1B Pehonan project

since 2001. The project,

partnered by Brookﬁeld

Renewable Power, would

involve building a dam on

the Saskatchewan River, near

the conﬂuence of the North

and South Saskatchewan

Rivers.

G.UB.MK CONSTRUCTORS,

a joint venture of

WorleyParsons, Williams

Plant Services and URS

Corporation’s Washington

Division, has been awarded

a contract for maintenance

and modiﬁcation construction

services at Tennessee Valley

Authority’s (TVA) electric

generation facilities. The

contract covers seven coal-

ﬁred plants and all of TVA’s

hydroelectric facilities located

primarily in Tennessee,

Kentucky and Alabama, and

some work in North Carolina,

Virginia and Mississippi. The

contract has a base term of ﬁve

years and a total maximum

contract value of US$950M

over the base period.

BRAZIL’S ENVIRON-

MENTAL regulator

Ibama has given the go-

ahead for construction to

start on the Santo Antonio

do Jari hydro project

on the Jari River in the

Amazonian region. The

plant – with an installed

capacity of 300MW – will

be built on the border

between the Brazilian

states of Para and Ampa.

TUFFBOOM WATER SAFETY

barrier has been installed at

Keepit Dam in New South

Wales, Australia, aiding the multi-mil-

lion dollar upgrade of the reservoir.

Australian company EarthTEC

supplied and installed the Tuffboom

following the award of a contract

by the State Water Corporation of

NSW. The barriers will protect the

public during water releases from

the dam and prevent access to the

spillway during a $116.4M upgrade

to bring the dam up to contemporary

safety standards for extreme ﬂoods

and earthquakes.

The Tuffbooms separate the dam

wall from a nearby boating ramp and

are connected by concrete anchor-

ages on the shoreline and the

dam ﬂoor. One of the booms has a

mechanical gate to allow construc-

tion craft access to the water side

of the dam wall.

The Tuffbooms are also equipped

with solar-powered lights, installed

at 20m intervals, to ensure recrea-

tional craft can identify the water

barriers at night.

As a further safety measure,

warning signs are moulded into,

rather than painted on, the surface

of the Tuffbooms.

The 55m high Keepit Dam is a

rock-ﬁll gravity structure located on

the Namoi River, between Gunnedah

and Tamworth. The dam was complet-

ed in 1960 and has since become a

popular fishing area, stocked with

large numbers of Murray Cod as well

as gold and silver perch.

It is used primarily for irrigation of

the Namoi Valley, and since it was

built, a large cotton-growing industry

has been established in the area.

Environmental Groups want alternative

to Klamath dams settlement agreement

COALITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL

groups have announced they

are supporting an alternative

to the draft Klamath Hydroelectric

Settlement Agreement that it says

would secure a shortened timeline

for removal of four dams on the

Klamath River in the US states of

Oregon and California.

The Klamath Conservation Partners

– which includes the Northcoast

Environmental Center, the Center for

Biological Diversity and Oregon Wild,

amongst others – says while it appre-

ciates the considerable effort that has

gone into creating the Klamath Hydro

Deal, it cannot support the deal in its

current form since it fails to compel

Paciﬁcorp, the states of Oregon and

California or the federal government to

commit to dam removal now.

The coalition believes the dams

must come down as soon as pos-

sible. As such they are developing

an alternative that would separate

the Settlement Agreement from the

proposed Klamath Basin Restoration

Agreement (KBRA). It also wants a

plan for federal removal of the dams

to be submitted to congress by 2012,

instead of the proposed 2020.

The Klamath Hydroelectric

Settlement Agreement was released

at the end of September by the 28

parties negotiating the fate of dams

on the Klamath River.

The settlement is based on the

Agreement in Principle reached between

PaciﬁCorp, Oregon, California, and the

federal government in November of

2008. It provides for funding up to

US$200M in dam removal costs by

collecting a surcharge from PaciﬁCorp’s

Oregon and California customers over

the next 10 years. Earlier this year,

the Oregon legislature authorized the

customer surcharge. If necessary, the

State of California would provide up

to $250M more towards the cost of

removal with the total project costs not

to exceed $450M.

MoU addresses First Nations’ dam issues

HE GOVERNMENT OF NEW

Brunswick and the Tobique

First Nation have signed a

memorandum of understanding

(MoU) resolving a number of out-

standing issues related to the

Tobique and Beechwood dams in

the Canadian province.

Under the MoU, the provincial

government and the Tobique First

Nation have reached agreement on

a number of items, including:

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along Saint John and Tobique rivers.

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gram to train Tobique First Nation

workers to perform maintenance on

hydroelectric stations, including the

Tobique and the Beechwood dams.

This activity will include normal

maintenance related to the safe

and efﬁcient delivery of electricity.

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ed to the Tobique First Nation.

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Dam including power lines, owner-

ship; and leases.

As a part of the MoU, the Tobique

First Nation will ensure that NB

Power will have access to the

restricted dam area so that normal

activity related to the safe and efﬁ-

cient delivery of electricity will occur

within Tobique.

The provincial government and

the Tobique First Nation will con-

tinue discussions over the next sev-

eral months.

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DIARY OF EVENTS

8 JANUARY 2010 INTERNATIONAL WATER POWER & DAM CONSTRUCTION

DIARY

February

1-3 February

Hydropower ‘10

Tromso, Norway

CONTACT: International Centre

for Hydropower.

Tel: +47 73 59 07 80.

www.hydropower10.org.

16-17 February

4th Renewable Energy Finance Forum

- Central and Eastern Europe

Prague, Czech Republic

CONTACT: Euromoney Energy

Events Ltd, Nestor House, Playhouse

Yard, London, UK, EC4V 5EX.

Fax: +44 20 7779 8946.

Email: energyevents@euromoney-

energy.com.

23-25 February

IAM10 (Infrastructure Asset

Management Exchange 2010)

London, UK

CONTACT: IQPC Ltd, Anchor

House, 15-19 Britten Street,

London, UK SW3 3QL.

Tel: +44 20 7368 9300.

Email: enquire@iqpc.co.uk.

25-28 February

International Power Summit 2010

London, UK

CONTACT: Arena International,

Brunel House, 55-57 North Wharf

Road, London, W2 1LA.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7915 9717.

Fax: +44 (0)20 7753 4250.

events@arena-international.com

www.internationalpowersummit.com

March

9-10 March

Dam and Reservoir Refurbishment

and Safety

London, UK

CONTACT: Rebecca Knowles,

Arena International, B rune l

House, 55-57 North Wharf Road,

London, W2 1LA.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7915 9769.

Fax: +44 (0)20 7753 4250.

rebbecaknowles@arena-internati-

onal.com.

www.arena-international.com

24-26 March

HydroVision Russia

Moscow, Russia

CONTACT: Mathilde Sueur,

Conference Manager, PennWell.

Tel: +44 1992 656 634.

Fax: +44 1992 656 735.

Email: mathildes@pennwell.com.

www.hydrovision-russia.com.

April

5-9 April

13th Annual Power and Electricity

World Asia

Singapore

CONTACT: Ya Ling Ng ,

Terrapinn Asia, Singapore.

Tel: +65 6322 2771.

Fax: +65 6223 3554.

yaling.ng@terrapinn.com.

7-9 April

3rd International Conference on

Problematic Soils

Adelaide, Australia

CONTACT: Conference Secretariat,

CI-Premier Pte Ltd, 150 Orchard

Road, #07-14, Orchard Plaza,

Singapore 238841,

Tel: +65 6733 2922.

Fax: +65 6235 3530.

Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg.

www.cipremier.com.

15-16 April

Small Hydro 2010

Montreal, Canada

CONTACT: Frances Parker,

Arena International, Brunel

House, 55-57 North Wharf Road,

London, W2 1LA.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7915 9642.

francesparker@arena-internati-

onal.com.

21-23 April

Power-Gen India & Central Asia

New Delhi, India

CONTACT: Kelvin Marlow,

PennWell.

Tel: +44 1992 656 610.

exhibitpgica@pennwell.com.

www.power-genindia.com.

23-25 April

R e p a i r s , A p p r a i s a l a n d

Maintenance of Buildings and

Structures and Fibre Reinforced

Materials

Yantai, China

CONTACT: Conference Secretariat,

CI-Premier Pte Ltd, 150 Orchard

Road, #07-14, Orchard Plaza,

Singapore 238841,

Tel: +65 6733 2922.

Fax: +65 6235 3530.

Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg.

www.cipremier.com.

May

11-12 May

5th Renewable Energy Finance

Forum - China

Beijing, China

CONTACT: uromoney Energy

Events Ltd, Nestor House, Playhouse

Yard, London, UK, EC4V 5EX.

Fax: +44 20 7779 8946.

energyevents@euromoneyenergy.

com.

23-29 May

Recent Advances in Geotechnical

Earthquake Engineering and Soil

Dynamics

California, US

CONTACT: Conference Secretariat,

CI-Premier Pte Ltd,

150 Orchard Road,

#07-14, Orchard Plaza,

Singapore 238841,

Tel: +65 6733 2922.

Fax: +65 6235 3530.

Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg.

www.cipremier.com.

June

8-10 June

Power-Gen Europe 2010

Amsterdam, Netherlands

CONTACT:

Emily Pryor, Conference Manager,

Power-Gen Europe.

Tel: +44 1992 656 614.

Fax: +44 1992 656 735.

Email: paperspg@pennwell.com.

www.powergeneurope.com.

8-10 June

R e n e w a b l e E n e r g y W o r l d

Europe 2010

Amsterdam, Netherlands

C O N T A C T : A m y N a s h ,

Conference Manager, Renewable

Energy World Europe.

Tel: +44 1992 656 621.

Fax: +44 1992 656 735.

Email: amyn@pennwell.com.

www.renewableenergyworld-eu-

rope.com.

23-25 June

International Conferences on

Green Ocean Construction and 7th

Ground Improvement Techniques

Seoul, Republic of Korea

C O N T A C T : C o n f e r e n c e

Secretariat, CI-Premier Pte Ltd, 150

Orchard Road, #07-14, Orchard

Plaza, Singapore 238841,

Tel: +65 6733 2922.

Fax: +65 6235 3530.

Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg.

www.cipremier.com.

July

27-30 July

Hydrovision International

North Carolina, US

CONTA C T : Libby Sm i t h ,

PennWell.

Tel: +1 (918) 831-9560.

Email: LibbyS@PennWell.com.

www.hydroevent.com.

August

25-27 August

35th Conference on Our World in

Concrete and Structures

Singapore

CONTACT: Conference Secretariat,

CI-Premier Pte Ltd, 150 Orchard

Road, #07-14, Orchard Plaza,

Singapore 238841,

Tel: +65 6733 2922.

Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg.

September

12-16 September

21st World Energy Congress

Quebec, Canada

CONTACT: Organsing Committee,

740 Notre-Dame Street West, 8th

Floor, Montréal, Québec, Canada

H3C 3X6.

Tel: + 1 (514) 397-1474.

www.wecmontreal2010.ca.

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September 2010 Innsbruck, Austria

DAM SAFETY

Sustainability in a Changing Environment

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personnel resources for design, construction, and

operation of dams occurred in many European

countries, leading to a decrease of skilled practiti-

oners. In contrast to that, the construction of new

dams undergoes a renaissance now, due to the de-

mands of sustainable water and energy management,

whereas the existing dams require increasing efforts

for their maintenance and upgrading in order to sustain

adequate safety and operability.

Therefore, strategic resource management beco-

mes more and more important for the dam industry.

One main aspect thereby is the transfer of valuable

experience and knowledge from senior practitio-

ners to their successors – an issue crucial for all

parties involved: dam owners, designers, and contrac-

tors, as well as authorities. Accordingly, sustainable

management of knowledge transfer between the ge-

nerations and between science and “day-to-day-busi-

ness” will be one main scope of the symposium.

Day 1

September 2010

Technical Excursion: Finstertal, Zillergruendl

Evening: Meeting European Working Groups

SYMPOSIUM

Day 2

September 2010

Sypmposium

Evening Event

Day 3

September 2010

Symposium

Evening: Meeting European Club Board

Day 4

September 2010

Technical Excursion: Finstertal, Zillergruendl

PROGRAMM

 Sustainability of Know How

 Public Awareness of Dams and Dam Safety

 Maintenance and Rehabilitation

 Regulations and Guidelines

 Small Dams

 Surveillance Practice

Here you will ﬁnd details on some of the executive appointments made by companies within the hydro power and dams industry

over the past few months. To submit details of appointments for publication in a future issue of the magazine,

please send an email to the editor, Carrieann Stocks, at: carrieannstocks@globaltrademedia.com

EXECUTIVE MOVEMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

10 JANUARY 2010 INTERNATIONAL WATER POWER & DAM CONSTRUCTION

JSC RusHydro appoints Evgeny

Vyacheslavovich Dod Chairman

of the Management Board

Dod has worked in the power

industry for more than 10 years.

From 1999 to 2000, he served

as Deputy Head of the Export

Department at RAO UES of

Russia. From June 2000 to 2008,

he was the General Director at

CJ SC Int er RAO UES, the n

was appointed Chairman of the

Management Board at JSC Inter

RAO UES in May 2008.

Dod was born in Moscow in 1973.

He graduated from the Moscow

Aviation Institute (the University

of Aerospace Technology), “MAI,”

with a degree in “The economics

and management of engineering

enterprises” in 1995. He holds a

ph.D. in economics. He has been

awarded an honorary diploma from

the CIS Electric Power Council.

He has also been awarded the title

‘Honoured Power Industry Worker’

and ‘Honoured CIS Power Industry

Worker’ as well as receiving other

state awards.

Dod will take over the Chairman

rol e from A cting Chairm an

Vasily Zubakin, who will con-

tinue his work as a Member of the

Management Board.

At the meeting, five top-man-

agers from JSC Inter RAO UE”

were also elected to RusHydro’s

Management Board: Alzhanov

Rakhmetullu Shanshievich, Gorev

Evgeny Evgenyevich, Mantrov

Mikhail Alekseevich, Rizhinashvili

George Ilyich and Sharov Yuriy

Vladimirovich.

Power Jacks names Craig

Yeoman as new Financial

Director

Fo l l o w i n g t h e

r e t i r e m e n t o f

Financial Director,

Andrew Horne,

linear and actua-

t o r c o m p a n y

Power Jacks has

appointed Yeoman to help meet the

demands of the company’s products

global growth and diversiﬁcation of

its engineering services.

Yeoman joins Power Jacks from

the Clydesdale Bank in Aberdeen

where he was Area Director, lead-

ing the Specialist and Acquisition

Finance team. He was responsible

for providing finance aimed at

acquisitions, MBO’s and MBI’s in

a wide variety of sectors across the

North-East.

A graduate of The Robert Gordon

University, Yeoman spent 12 years

with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

After gaining his Chartered

Accountant qualiﬁcation during his

ﬁrst three years with the company’s

audit department, he spent nine

years as their Assistant Director

of Corporate Finance. During his

time at PWC, Yeoman worked

with Power Jacks assisting with

due diligence on acquisitions.

He will be responsible for

the management of the finance

se c t i o n , a s s i s ti n g wit h the

fundraising for the company’s

f o r t h c o m i n g m o v e t o n e w

premises in Ellon, and looking at

strategic acquisitions.

Ocean Power Technologies

appoints Philip J. Pellegrino

as Vice President,

North America Business

Development & Marketing

Reporting to Dr. George W.

Taylor, OPT’s Executive Chairman,

Pellegrino will be responsible for

business development, sales and

marketing activities of the Company

throughout North America.

Prior to joining OPT Pellegrino’s

career encompassed extensive expe-

rience in energy technology, direct

sales of electricity products to elec-

tric utilities and major multinational

companies, and the negotiation of

power supply arrangements with

independent power producers and

large-scale power project develop-

ers. Pellegrino’s previous positions

include six years as President of

Super Power, Inc, a subsidiary

of Royal Philips Electronics (for-

merly Intermagnetics General

Corporation). Super Power devel-

ops and sells second generation

high-temperature superconduc-

tors for customers in the electric

power, industrial and military sec-

tors. Before joining Super Power,

Pellegrino was Chief Executive

Officer and Director of the New

England Independent System

Operator (the New England elec-

trical power grid), Senior Vice

President of the Transmission

Business Unit of the New York

Power Authority, and he held sev-

eral positions at American Electric

Power Service Corporation.

Pellegrino holds a Master of

Science degree in industrial man-

agement from Columbia University,

and a Bachelor of Science degree

in Electrical Engineering from

City College of New York. He is

also a past member of the Electric

Power Research Institute’s Research

Advisory Committee, and Chair of

its Retail Energy Council.

TrustPower appoints Vince

Hawksworth as Chief

Executive

Hawksworth is currently Chief

Executive of Hydro Tasmania and

was previously General Manager

Retail for Genesis Energy. He has

extensive experience of both the New

Zealand and Australian electric-

ity markets, covering wind project

development, resource consent-

ing, management of hydro inflow

risks as well as retailing experience.

Hawksworth has both management

and engineering qualiﬁcations and is

considered well suited to his new role

at TrustPower.

Hawksworth is expected to com-

mence with TrustPower around

the end of April 2010. Until then

the Retail Division Manager Chris

O’Hara will carry the responsibil-

ity as Acting Chief Executive.

Cavico announces senior

management changes for

Cavico Vietnam

Cavico Corp has announced that the

Board of Directors of Cavico Vietnam

has appointed Mr Thanh Vu Tran as

the new President of its wholly owned

subsidiary Cavico Vietnam. Tran will

replace Mr Phuc Minh Pham, who

will now serve as Cavico Vietnam’s

Chief Operating Ofﬁcer, replacing Mr

Hieu Van Phan.

Tran previously served as President

of Cavico Transport, a majority

owned subsidiary of Cavico Corp.

The Board of Cavico Vietnam also

appointed Mr Khoa Xuan Do as

President of Cavico Transport.

Ernie Wright joins Black &

Veatch’s energy business,

Eamonn Kelly appointed

Managing Director of water

business in Asia Paciﬁc

Ernie Wright

has joined Black

& Veatch as

a Senior Vice

P r e s i d e n t i n

the company’s

global energy

business. Wright

will be respon-

sible for overseeing large-scale,

engineering, procurement and con-

struction (EPC) projects across the

Americas, as well as growing the

number of these types of projects

for Black & Veatch in the region.

“Ernie has a successful track

record in delivering complex energy

infrastructure projects across the

United States,” said Dean Oskvig,

President and CEO of Black &

Veatch’s global energy business.

“His more than 30 years of project

experience and industry knowledge

is beneficial for developing new

opportunities with clients and busi-

ness partners.”

Prior to joining Black & Veatch,

Wright was an Executive Vice

President and Board member of

a large US general industrial con-

struction company, where he was

Industrial Group President.

Eamonn Kelly will join Black

& Veatch as the new Managing

Director for South Asia Paciﬁc early

next year. Kelly will be responsible

for growing Black & Veatch’s water

business throughout the region and

will be based in Melbourne.

Kelly has more than 20 years’ expe-

rience in the water industry with a

majority of the time spent in Australia,

China and other parts of Asia.

His experience prior to joining

Black & Veatch includes seven

years with a state-owned water

corporation in Victoria, Australia,

where he served most recently as

General Manager for the Planning

and Infrastructure Groups.