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CONTENTS

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INSIGHT

Positioning for the future

During the National Hydropower Association annual

conference in Washington, DC, delegates were encouraged

to capitalise on the growing momentum for hydro in the US

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE

Redeveloping Aberfeldie

This paper discusses all technical aspects of the project to

redevelop Aberfeldie hydro scheme in BC, including the

optimization exercise, geotechnical investigations, hydraulic

model studies of possible sediment excluders, removal of

the old components and replacement with new.

Cleaning up

The world’s largest trash rack cleaning system has been

installed at Rock Island dam in the US. Read more about

the development and installation of this impressive system

in this article by Florian Kufner

Bearing up under tight deadlines

Custom-made bearings were delivered to tight deadlines

to minimize downtime at UHE Salto Osorio hydro plant

Control issues at Cardiff Bay Barrage

ABB recently upgraded the control system at Cardiff Bay

Barrage to allow for more integrated and sophisticated

control and improve ease of use for operators

SMALL HYDRO AWARD

Best of the best in small hydro

The final shortlisted schemes in our small hydro

competition are detailed here. Please vote for a scheme to

win the title of ‘Best Small Hydro Plant’ by visiting our

website at www.waterpowermagazine.com

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

On trial

Geographic information systems have played a key role in

the identification of micro hydro sites in one US State

Long-term behaviour of dams with internal erosion

Hans F Ronnqvisit provides a summary of his research

reviewing the performance history of dams with

internal erosion.

Powering up the Mississippi

US-based company Free Flow Power is utilising untapped

hydrokinetic energy on the Mississippi River

The paper used in this magazine is obtained

from manufacturers who operate within

internationally recognised standards.

The paper is made from Elementary Chlorine

Free (ECF) pulp, which is sourced from

sustainable, properly managed forestation.

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ORKSHOP TALKS IN THE

Democrat ic Republic of

Congo (DRC) have paved the

way for the next stage of development

of th e Inga III hydro power scheme,

with plans to establish a project com-

pany and steering committee.

It was proposed in the workshop,

held in the capital Kinsasha, that a

company be established to develop

the 4320MW scheme and have

responsibility to negotiate contracts for

Workshop talks help prepare

way ahead for Inga III

design and construction activities,

funding, licensing and operations.

The talks, which followed completion

o f the p re-feasibility study by SNC

Lavalin last year, also proposed that

a p roj ect steering com mittee be

e stablished within 60 days, or by

late August.

Construction of the run-of-river Inga

III scheme is estimated to cost approx-

imately US$7.6B and be commis-

sioned around 2018-21.

Roles of development partners were

clarified during the workshop, and it

was confirmed that sufficient funds

were available for the next phase of the

planning. It was noted that a focus of

the funding assessment dealt with

development supporters so far, mainly

the Western Power Corridor (Westcor)

countries – DRC, Botswana, Angola,

Namibia and South Africa – and also

the concerns of BHP Billiton with regard

to its aluminium smelter.

Organisations that participated in

the pre-feasibility study, which con-

cluded in February, included the World

Bank, Asian Development Bank

(ADB), the EU, BNP Paribas, Fortis,

BCDC, ANAP and K'Water.

A technical and financial analysis

of the scheme was carried out by a

group including BNP Paribas and

Ingerop with financial support from

the World Bank.

eparately, the African

Development Bank (AfDB) is under-

taking comparative studies of the Inga

site. The bank approved funds a year

ago to study hydro power potential of

the Inga complex on the river Inga,

and links to the power grid. The stud-

ies are being undertaken by DRC's

national electricity company, Societe

Nationale d'Electrcite (SNEL), assist-

ed by Africa Power Tools, and is to be

completed in 2010.

The Inga complex, on the lower

Congo river, is one of the key areas

of hydro power potential in the world.

The Inga 1 and 2 plants are being

refurbished and beyond plans for

Inga III there is the possibility of con-

structio n of the world 's largest

scheme – Grand Inga – which would

have an installed capacity of approx-

imately 40GW, and could be built by

2020-25.

Last year the World Energy Council

(WEC) hosted talks in London to help

examine the financial aspects of devel-

oping the hydro potential of the river

Inga. In the talks, the Inga III and

Grand Inga projects were viewed as

strategic, complementary ventures

with estimated potential electricity pro-

duction of 320TWh per year. The total

cost of the two plants would be more

than US$40B, excluding the trans-

mission system.

Refurbishment work is underway

under a public-private initiative for the

Inga 1 and Inga 2 plants, which had

original capacities of 351MW and

1424MW, respectively. However,

reduced demand and funding limita-

tions resulted in a poorer maintenance

budget and power output.

Rusal OKs funds for Boguchanskaya build

USHYDRO HAS ANNOUNCED

that the funding for construction

of the 3GW Boguchanskaya

project, in Russia, has been saved fol-

lowing agreement with aluminium pro-

ducer Rusal to continue support of

the 'strategic' scheme.

The Russian hydro power utility said

that Rusal had 'backed off' from its

proposal to freeze construction.

Instead, Rusal is to contribute a total

of Rouble 1.7B (US$54.6M) over June-

July towards the hydro power project,

which the aluminium producer again

views as a strategic development.

The utility, though, wants to see

their new investment agreement

signed as soon as possible, and

hopes it will happen soon.

The Boguchanskaya plant is under

construction on the river Angara, in

Siberia. It is to be equipped with nine

units, each of 333MW nominal capac-

ity supplied by Power Machines.

The first 7.86m diameter turbine

was despatched in Q3-2008, and the

next two units are to be sent to site

later this year. It is planned that three

generating units ar e to be commis-

sioned each year over 2010-12, which

is just over 30 years after work start-

ed during the Soviet era.

At full operation, the plant is

expected to generate 17,600GWh of

electricity per year.

The agreement between the

Russian hydro power utility and Rusal

would cover the remaining construction

work and include details on the time-

line, funding required and monthly pay-

ments to be made. The cashflow

forecast would provide information for

the development partners to provide

or seek supplementary funds, such as

bank debt.

Rusa l recently paid Roubl e 256M

( US$8.2M) towards the project

funds and plans to hand over a

fur ther sum of Rouble 551M

(US$17.8M) before the end of June.

I n add ition, in July it is to transfer

FFORTS TO DEVELOP SMALL

hydr o a nd other renewable

energ y proj ects in Sri Lanka

thro ugh private secto r involvement

are to be helped by the International

Finance Corporation (IFC).

IFC, part of the World Bank Group,

plans to help boost renewables in Sri

Lanka through a package valued at

US$15M to support the activities of

the Commercial Bank of Ceylon.

The package value is based on risk-

sharing facilities, such as data on

financing, project structuring and

benchmarking to support the local

bank's efforts to evaluate and help

fund renewables projects.

IFC added that institutional building

for the local bank's work was also

included in the value of the package,

with an advisory component being

funded by the government of Ireland

and Japan as well as the Global

Environmental Facility.

Key energy sources that the Sri

Lankan Government is seeking to get

more private sector support for are

small hydro power, wind and biomass.

While there are some large r hydro

schemes, such as Samanalawewa,

Sri Lanka to get renewables support from IFC

most of t he countr y's electricity

generation assets are based on

fossil fuel s.

IFC said the funding support would

help diversify the energy mix in Sri

Lanka, and is part of its wider strate-

gy to help the private sector become

more involved in mitigating the impact

of climate change while meeting infra-

structure needs in the region.

Roub le896M (US$28.6M) extra

towards the project finance needs.

RusHydro said that a signed legal

document on the financing procedure

wo uld ensure funds are secure d to

make prompt payments to the

supply chain, and as such would

allow the co-developers to focus on

const ruction progress.

Renewal of support for the hydro

power scheme comes from Rusal

changing plans to ensure the start-up

of two smelters, Buguchanskaya and

Tayshetskogo, to take advantage of the

electricity available. In addition, Rusal

has made changes to optimise the

construction costs of the smelters.

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In Brief

A REPORT BY Panama's

Public Services Authority

says that 31 new hydro-

electric plants will be

operational in the country

by 2013, providing an

additional 1047MW to the

national grid. According to

local media, 15 of the

lants are currently under

construction, with the

remaining 16 in the final

design stage.

THE NORTHWEST

Regional Development

Agency (NWDA), Scottish

Enterprise and the Nuclear

Decommissioning

Authority have agreed to

commission a £100,000

feasibility study to evaluate

options for harnessing

tidal energy on the Solway

Firth in the UK. The study

will be carried out by a

consortium led by the

Halcrow Group.

THE INTER-AMERICAN

Development Bank (IDB)

has app roved $120M in

grants for 2010 to help

Haiti invest in key sectors

such as i nfrastructure,

and disaster prevention,

with a po rtion of the

funds expecte d to help

towards a second phase

of rehabilitation of

the country's Peligre

hydroelectric plant.

TWO DAM PROJECTS

planned in Angola are to

receive funding support

from Russia.The dams are

to be constructed on the

Kwanza river in the

Kapanda and Cambambe

areas. Details of the

proposed scale of the

funding for the projects,

which together would

have approximately 2GW

of installed capacity, were

not disclosed.

SSE proposes new pumped storage plants

COTTISH & SOUTHERN ENERGY

is proposing to develop two new

pumped storage schemes in

Scotland, with planning applications

likely to be submitted in 2011.

The plants, to be located in the

Great Glen, are expected to have

installed capacities between 300-

600MW. Although both schemes

would require construction of a dam,

the majority of the infrastructure is

likely to be built underground, avoiding

any impact in the Great Glen itself.

The company is planning to seek

the Scottish Government's formal opin-

ion on the scope of the environmental

impact statement for the projects –

which, if given the go-ahead, would be

the first pumped storage schemes to

be developed in the UK since work

began on the Dinorwig scheme in

Wales in 1974.

SSE alr eady owns and operates a

300MW pumped storage scheme at

Foyers, on the south side of Loch

Ness. It will also be submitting an

application to develop a 60MW

pumped storage scheme at its exist-

ing Sloy hydroelectric power plant at

Loch Lochmond.

In an average year, Sloy produces

around 120GWh of electricity and,

according to SSE, converting it to a

pumped storage facility will allow it to

produce an additional 100GWh to help

meet peak demand.

The company has also just com-

pleted the development of the UK's

first large scale conventional hydro sta-

tion for 50 years at Glendoe, with the

project officially opened today by Her

Majesty the Queen at the end of June.

EVELOPMENT OF UP TO

100MW of mini-h ydro power

capacity in Panama is to be

inves tigated by a joint venture

between Panama Central Electric

(PCE), a subsidiary of gold producer

Petaquila Minerals, and Generadora

Hidroelectrica Santa Maria.

The JV partners have just signed a

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

to develop a 25MW plant in the

province of Veraguas, and hope con-

Power companies in mini-hydro JV for Panama

struction can commence before the

end of 2010.

To develop the scheme to a bank-

able feasibility study stage, the JV will

also update a 1998 Environmental

Impact Study which was previously

approved by national authorities.

Following the initial development

work on the first project the partners

plan to investigate developing up to

another 75MW of capacity in further

projects in the central province of the

country, taking their JV's total portfo-

lio to about 100MW.

PCE is held within Petaquilla

Minerals via another subsidiary,

Petaquilla Infrastructure, which it is

preparing to spin-out of the group

within the coming months.

Last month, the national Public

Services Authority said that 31 hydro

plants with combined installed capac-

ity of 1047MW will be operational in

Panama by 2013.

HREE EUROPEAN COUNT RIES

have ended their expor t credit

support for the 1.2GW Ilisu hydro

project in Turkey, and suppliers are

waiting to learn how the Government

will proceed with the project.

In a joint statement in early July, the

three agencies of Germany, Austria

and Switzerland said that their export

credit guara ntees were withdrawn

because, despite 'some significant

i mprovements' in environmental,

c ultural heritage and resettlement

matters, there had n ot been enough

by the 6 July deadline, which was

set last year.

The export credit agencies of Germany,

Austria and Switzerland are, respectively,

Euler Hermes Kreditversicherungs,

Oesterreichische Kontrollbank and

Swiss Expor t Risk Insurance

(Schweizerische Exportriskoversicherung

- SERV). They agreed over two years ago

to take on the warranties for the proj-

ect with conditions related to environ-

ment, resettlement and archaeology.

Ilisu involves construction of a

135m high by 1820m long dam on the

Tigris river, and a powerhouse with six

Francis units. The project is part of the

Southern Anatolia Project masterplan,

and was expected to be completed

around 2014-15.

In the third quarter of 2007 a con-

sortium of European companies

received a contract for supply and engi-

neering services to the Ilisu project,

which is being developed by the

General Directorate of State Hydraulic

Works (DSI). The consortium includes

Andritz, Alstom, Ed Zublin, Stucky,

Colenco and Maggia.

Other companies involved with the

project include local firms Nurol,

Cengiz, Dolsar, Rast and Temelsu.

The export credi t agencies noted

that there had been 'some signifi-

cant improvements' on the environ-

ment al, cultural and resettleme nt

aspects of the project. However, they

said there h ad not been en ough to

cont inue to secure the insurance

cover provided by thei r export cred-

its to cons or tia w ith const ruction

and supply contracts.

In a statement following the agen-

cies' move, Andritz said: 'It is ver y

unfortunate that the intense effor ts

that Turkey has made in the past

months to implement the accompany-

ing measures in the environmental,

resettlement and cultural areas did not

receive adequate recognition'

Andritz added that many of the

pending items and requirements set

by the agencies had been fulfilled, as

noted by their own review. But the com-

pany said that it is waiting to learn how

the Turkish Government plans to pro-

ceed with the project.

At the end of last year there was a

suspension of the support for con-

struction contracts at Ilisu due to the

exports credit agencies concerns over

the environmental, cultural and reset-

tlement issues.

The statement said the move in

December was made to drive their

insistence on international standards

being met 'agai nst the backdrop of

repeated delays in implementing the

measures'.

It continued: 'Although some

progress was made, several visits to

the project region and exchanges with

the project management appointed by

the bui lders invariably revea led

deficits in implementing the require-

ments to be fulfilled during the previ-

ous project phases.'

Official groundbreaking for the proj-

ect was in August 2006 and the origi-

nal completion deadline was 2013.

Andritz said it had booked only a

small par t of the order value so far

and therefore there wou ld be no

material financial impact to its per -

formance due to the exports credits

agencies' decision.

Illisu export credit support pulled

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Contracts

MAVEL HAS BEEN

awarded a contract to

supply a replacement

micro generating unit at

the Boatlock plant in

Massachusetts. The Czech

manufacturer is to supply

0.74MW turbine and

related equipment under

an arrangement with US

contractor Waterline

Industries, Inc. The works

are to be fini shed by mid-

2010. Mavel has also

been given the greenlight

to supply turbines to the

Lovosice-Pistany I project

in the Czech Republic

and has been awarded

a contract for units at

the Kuokkastenkoski

plant in F inland.

CAVICO HAS WON A

contract to build a spill-

way for the Da Ban dam

in Vietnam. The group

said that its subsidiary

Cavico Energy

Construction had been

awarded the approximate-

ly US$2.5M contract by

the Ministry of

Agriculture and Rural

Development. Da Ban

dam is 26m high and

348m long, and was built

in the 1980s as part of an

irrigation project in the

Ninh Hoa district, north

of Khanh Hoa province.

The US Bureau of

Reclamation has awarded

Koontz Electric of

Arizona, US, a US$2M

contract for transformer

replacement and switch-

yard modification work at

the Green Springs power

plant on the Rogue River

in Oregon. The new

modification work is

expected to start in

October 2010 and will

take approximately two

months to complete.

Iberdrola agrees

sale of Chilean

hydro stakes

IBERDROLA HAS AGREED TO

sell its stakes in two hydro-

electric companies in Chile to

CGE as part of its asset

divestment programme.

The stakes involved are

94.74% of Iberoamericana de

Energia (Ibener) and 55% of

Empresa Electrica Lican,

which are valued at a total of

$297.55M for a capital gain

of $118M. Ibener owns two

hydro power stations in Chile

– the 75MW Peuchen and

49MW Mampil projects

–while Electrica Lican owns a

17MW project that is

currently under construction.

Iberdrola's Strategic Plan

projects US$3.5B in divest-

ments this year, with the goal

of maintaining its balance

sheet strength and improving

its capital structure.

GIH completes sale of

Yesil Enerji to Statkraft

URKISH GROUP GLOBAL

Investme nt Holding (GIH) has

completed the sale of its major-

ity stake in local energy developer

Yesil Enerji to Statkraft.

GIH said it had sold 95% of Yesil

Enerji in a deal valued at Euro139.2M

(US$195M), including earn out. The

deal has closed on schedule.

The company added that Yesil Enerji

holds controlling interests in six hydro

power projects in Turkey with combined

capacity of 560MW, and all have gen-

eration licences. Further, it said that

development and construction of the

plants would call for approximately

US$1B over the next five years.

In March, when announcing the pro-

posed deal, the companies said that

Yesil Enerji had controlling interests in

a developing portfolio of seven projects

with potential for 633MW of installed

capacity. One plant (20MW Cakit) is

under construction and, back then,

four of the projects had generation

licences and two were seeking them.

GIH also said then that if the final

deal included all seven projects then

the development and construction

budget could be up to Euro700M

(US$980M).

In structuring the final deal, the

agreed enterprise value of Yesil Enerji

was taken to be Euro98.1M

(US$138M), based on all six plants

being fully owned, and including

Euro7.9M (US$11M) of external loans.

To ac hieve full ownership of all

plants, said GIH, payment totalling

E uro 16.2M (US$22.7M) is to be

m ade for the non-held s takes in

two proje cts.

In addition, there is an earn out

mechanism in the deal which will see

Statkraft make further payments to

GIH during the first three years of oper-

ation of each plant, the payments

being based on 50% of over-bench-

marked electricity wholesale price and

50% of carbon credits to 2017.

China Power buys majority

stake in Wu Ling Power

HINA POWER INTERNATION AL

Developm ent Ltd (CPID) has

agreed to buy a majority stake

in Chinese independent hydro power

developer Wu Ling Power.

CPID has agreed to acquire 63% of

Wu Ling Power for RMB4.47B

(US$654M) from CPI Holding, a wholly-

owned subsidiary of CPI Group. The

deal is a connected transaction.

Strategic reasons for the acquisition

include the leading importance of

hydro power among renewable energy

sources in China, said CPID. Hydro

accounted for approximately 21.6% of

the country's total installed capacity

and 16.4% of total electricity genera-

tion at the end of 2008.

CPID added that the move also

gives a leading role in the hydro power

sector in Hunan as well as bringing

more balance to its generation portfo-

lio. Wu Ling Power is the largest inde-

pendent hydro producer in Hunan.

Wu Ling Power primarily develops

hydro power projects in Hunan and

Guizhou provinces. Upon completion

of the transaction, Wu Ling Power will

bring 2245MW of installed capacity to

boost CPID's portfolio by a quarter to

almost 11.3GW. The deal includes 10

hydro plants and one coal plant, but

not Qian Dong Power's facility which is

being sold separately.

The company wholly owns seven

hydro plants and has majority own-

ership (95%) in three facilities, plus

a minority stake in a coal plan t, al l

of which gives it 3564MW of attrib-

utable installed capacity. With 63%

ownership, CIPD obtains 2245MW of

capacity from its majority holding of

Wu Ling Power, which focuse s on

cascade development on the Yuan

Jiang river.

The biggest hydro plants being

transferred are 1200MW (5 x 240MW)

Wu Qiang Xi, built in the mid 1990s in

Hunan, and 1000MW (4 x 250MW)

San Ban Xi in Guizhou, in which it

holds a 95% stake and was finished

in 2006.

Over 2006-8, Wu Ling Power's

annual gross hydro power output was

7409GWh, 10,903GWh and

10,730GWh, respectively. This equat-

ed to 44.3%, 52.2% and 49.8% of

Hunan's total centrally despatched

hydro power generation.

Three hydro projects are under con-

struction with combined installed

capacity of 2450MW but the capacity

attributable to Wu Ling Power is

2388MW. The plants are: the

1200MW (4 x 300MW) Hei Mi Feng

pumped storage plant, due to be oper-

ational from later this year and wholly-

owned by the company; the 420MW (3

x 140MW) Bai Shi project, to be fin-

ished in 2011 and 95% held by Wu

Ling Power; and, the 830MW (4 x

200MW plus 2 x 15MW) Tuo Kou

plant, to be finished in 2012 and 95%

held by the company.

Wu Ling Power was incorporated in

1995 and 11 years later was regis-

tered as a sino-foreign JV with limited

liability, owned by CPI Group and

Hunan Xiangtou International

Investment Ltd - itself a sino-foreign JV,

owned equally by Meija Xiangtou Power

Co Ltd and Hunan Xiangtou Holding

(Group) Ltd.

A Memorandum of Understanding

(MoU) for the deal was agreed in late

May and the latest move comes from

the parties signing an Acquisition

Agreement. It is anticipated that the

transation will be completed by late

June and attached conditions by the

end of 2010.

Financial adviser to the transaction

was BOCI Asia Ltd.

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DIARY OF EVENTS

August

10-14 August

Internation al Association of

Hydraulic Engineering & Research

3rd Biennial Congress

Vancouver, BC, Canada

CONTACT: Stacey Ann P.

Gardiner, CMP, Congress

Manager.

IAHRConferenceManager@asce.org

16-18 August

34th Conference on Our World in

Concrete and Structures

Singapore

CONTACT: Conference

Secretariat , CI-Premi er Pte Ltd,

150 Orchard Road, #07-14,

Orchard Plaza, Singapore 238841.

Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg.

September

16-17 September

RCC 2009 Short Course and Tour

Missouri, US

CONTACT: Ken Hansen.

Tel: +1 303 695 6500.

Email: ken@ken-hansen.com.

27 September – 1 October

Dam Safety 2009

Florida, USA

CONTAC T: Association of State

Dam Safety Ofﬁcials (ASDSO),

450 Old Vine Street, Lexington KY

40507, US.

Tel: +1 859 257 5140

Email: info@damsafety.org

www.damsafety.org

October

3-8 October

Canadian Dam Association Annual

Conference

British Columbia, Canada

CON TACT: Barry Hurndall,

Canadian Dam Association.

Tel: +1 780 432 7236.

http://www.cda.ca .

12-13 October

2nd International Conference on

Long Term Behaviour of Dams

Graz, Austria

CONTAC T: Prof Gerald Zenz,

Technical University of G raz.

Email: geral d.zenz@tugraz.net

www.itbd09.tugraz .at

14-15 October

British Hydropower Association

Annual Conference

Liverpool, UK

CONTACT: Ellan Parry, BHA. 12

Riv erside Park, Station Road,

Wimborne BH21 1QU, UK

Tel: +44 1202 880 333.

Email: info@ british-hydro.org

www.british-hydro .org.

26-28 October

Hydro 2009

Lyon, France

CON TACT: Aqu a-Media

International Ltd, 123 Westmead

Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 4JH

Tel: +44 20 8643 5 133.

Fax: +44 20 8643 8200.

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10 JULY 2009 INTERNATIONAL WATER POWER & DAM CONSTRUCTION

INSIGHT

HE National Hydropower

Association hosted key industry

leaders, legislators, and policy-

makers durin g its annual confer -

ence in Washington, DC from 11-13 May

2009. This year’s theme, ‘Tapping the

Future: Hydropower, Energy Demand, and

Water Supply’, look ed at the ways hydro

power supports US policy objectives, includ-

ing energy growth, climate change, and eco-

nomic development, while the association

offered presentations and events designed to

capture the industry’s growing momentum

in North America.

“This has been a big year for us as an

industry,” said NHA exec utive director

Linda Ch urch Ciocci. “We’ve seen hydro

power included in major legislative initia-

tives, such as the Recovery Act and various

renewable energy standards proposals;

we’ve increased the federal R&D budge t

tenfold; we’ve seen the Federal Ene rgy

Regulator y Commission (FERC) issue the

first commercial hydrokinetic licence; and

we are witnessing growin g un derstan ding

from all groups about the role water power

can – and should – play in our energy mix.”

Church Ciocc i said the NHA designed

the conference to build on all these

developments and position the industry

for the future.

“NHA works year-round to advocate for

hydro power before national legislators, reg-

ulators, and policymakers,” she said, “but

our strength come s from activating th e

entire industry to do the same thi ng on a

local and national level.”

The conference started with a reception

and awards ceremony on Capitol Hill hosted

by NHA and the House Hydropower

Caucus. Caucus founder and chairwoman

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers told the

crowd that the industry’s messages are res-

onating in Congress, and she urged industry

officials to keep up the push.

In the west, especially in her home state of

Washington, she said, people understand the

clean, affordable, domes tic energy that

hydro power offers, and the y know that’s

what attra cts high-tech companies to her

region. She also talked about how more and

more people – even in Congress – are begin-

ning to recognise that these benefits exist on

a national level too.

McMorris Rogers joined NHA officials in

presenting the Outstanding Stew ards of

America’s Waters awards, which recognise

superior achievement and best practices in

the industry. This year’s winners included

projects at New York Power Authority,

Puget So und Energy, TransCanada, and

Yuba County (CA) Water Agency.

Later t hat day, NHA honoured ano ther

legislator, Sen. Maria Cantwell, with its leg-

islator of the year award, reco gnising her

longtime advocacy of water p ower tech-

nologies in energy, environmental, and eco-

nomic legislative proposals.

“She has been a strong supporter on key

legislative initiatives tha t include hydro

power, such as the Recovery Ac t,” said

NHA outg oing president Richard Miller.

“As Chairwoman of the Senate

Subcommittee on Energy and a member of

the Subcommittee on Water and Power,

Senato r Cantwell has helped us build

bridges to the enviro nmental community

by encouraging us to forge an agreement

that recognises the benef its of ocean, tidal,

It’s time for the US hydro

power industry to grow

and shine. This was the

strong message to

emerge from the National

Hydropower Association’s

annual meeting in the US

Positioning for the future

Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers

addressing the NHA audience

(Left to right) Incoming

NHA President,

Andrew Munro of Grant

County PUD, Linda Church

Ciocci, NHA Executive

Director, 2008-09 NHA Past

President Richard Miller

Water Power and Dam Construction - Issue July 2009

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