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 Austria
 Vienna Steps Up Renewable Energy
After large-scale projects, climate targets and soaring power prices turn also small hydropower into an interesting option. One example is the new drinking water power plant at Nasswald  [more...]



 Hydropower Expansion: Opponents Are Forming Up
Austria’s power industry wants to build many new hydropower plants. To WWF and its partners, this is a misguided energy policy that puts the last free-flowing river sections at risk  [more...]



 Ways to Optimising Small Hydropower Plants
Electricity demand is soaring. From an Austrian perspective, the only way out of the dilemma – along with the Kyoto climate protection targets – is the harnessing of hydropower.  [more...]



 Solutions for Fluctuating Water Flow in the Pipeline?
A work group of high-ranking experts under the umbrella of ÖWAV deals with this problem arising from storage power plants and has formulated some crucial questions  [more...]



 Convince but don’t deal in polemics...
This says Christoph Wagner, who succeeds Hanns Kottulinsky as new President of the Austrian Small Hydropower Association. aqua press asked him for an interview  [more...]



 Small Hydropower Increasingly Buoyant
The 10th International Forum for Small Hydropower, held along with an exhibition at Salzburg AG in late September, clearly indicated this trend  [more...]



 ECO FLOW Turbine puts Residual Flow to Good Use
The implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive is said to curb the productivity of diversion-type hydropower plants. Kössler GesmbH presents a new technique that counteracts this effect  [more...]



 Austro-Russian cooperation to build new hydropower plants
 It’s Time for more Eco-Energy!
With the Schreyerbach drinking water power station near the community of Aldrans, Tyrol, IKB launches another project for eco-electricity production in existing plants  [more...]



 New Power Plant in Austria
Verbund and Salzburg AG are to construct the new Salzach power plant at Werfen/Pfarrwerfen in joint venture.  [more...]



 Pipe Systems for Hydro Power Plant Schwarzach in Austria
The application of environmentally sound energy technologies such as hydropower are essential to a sustainable development and help secure the quality of living and the well-being for future generations.   [more...]



 World novelty: Gravitation vortex hydropower unit
The inventor originally sought to devise a simple but efficient aeration system for his swimming pond. The outcome opens up new perspectives for energy supply and the environment  [more...]



 Small hydropower: efficient and eco-friendly
What implications would have an overly stringent implementation of the Water Framework Directive on Austrian hydropower industry? The majority of experts agree that it would predominantly affect small hydropower (SHP).  [more...]



 VA Tech Hydro Receives Contracts in Scotland and Germany
VA TECH HYDRO, one of the world´s leading suppliers of equipment and services in Hydropower, has won a contract to supply and install the complete electromechanical equipment for the Glendoe Hydropower project in Scotland.  [more...]



 ALSTOM: An Edge by Innovation
ALSTOM Power Austria GmbH looks back on about hundred years of experience in power plant construction. Today, the company is part of an international group with a staff of 70,000 worldwide. 25 percent of all energy producing plants in the world come from ALSTOM – a figure that speaks for itself!  [more...]



 Between Contradictions
The already traditional annual meeting of small hydropower plant operators at Zell am See (Salzburg) still showed that small hydropower is more than a valid form of energy generation  [more...]



 Ancient Principle – Ultramodern Effect
SAG Energietechnik GmbH, system partner of Ritz Atro, has reinterpreted the idea of the Archimedean screw pump and integrated the ancient success design in the complex system of a modern small hydropower plant.  [more...]



 Success for VA Tech Hydro in Austria
In 2004, VA TECH HYDRO started to implement the ISO 14001 standard at all of its Austrian locations. An external pre-audit was performed in May 2005, while the external certification audit by Bureau Veritas International took place from July 13-20, 2005.  [more...]



 Hydromatrix: Turbines for Power Station in Vienna
Power from renewable energy and enhancing the safety of supply for Austria’s capital are major targets.  [more...]



 Not Necessarily a Turbine
When our ancestors spoke of waterpower, they meant water wheels and Archimedes screws. Today both are experiencing a revival as alternatives in small hydropower  [more...]



 New Impetus for Small Hydropower!
After the agitation around the Water Framework Directive and support programmes, the “Thematic Network” of the ESHA shall provide a bundling of all forces.   [more...]



 New Hydropower Plant in Vienna
VERBUND-Austrian Hydro Power AG (AHP), Wienstrom, and EVN are together building a small hydropower plant at Nussdorf on the outskirts of Vienna.  [more...]



 Salzburg: Better River Flow Conditions for the Almbach
The department of Provincial Councillor Dr. Othmar Raus advocates in negotiations with the Supreme Water Authority an increase of the minimum flow volumes for the Almbach.  [more...]



 Is the WFD Killing Austrian Hydropower?
With the Water Framework Directive (WFD), some certainly intended to create a "Water Power Hindrance Directive". The consequences for existing plants, however, were obviously not considered!  [more...]



 Salzburg AG: Financing of New Power Station Projects
Salzburg AG will invest € 110 million in 2004. This is the highest investment budget of the past 5 years. New power plants and network developments (mainly municipal heating, electricity and telecommunication) were the most important decisions of the "Salzburg AG für Energie, Verkehr und Telekommunikation".  [more...]



 Lobby for Small Hydropower Plants in Austria
The Austrian Society for the Promotion of Small Hydropower Plants (ÖVFK) represents the interests of 780 operating companies, manufacturers and hydraulic conveyors.  [more...]



 Small Hydropower: A Wistful Goodbye?
The Federal grant system for small hydropower in Austria ended in June 2003. In view of the Kyoto objectives, the resistance against this measure is getting stronger.  [more...]



 Situation of Small Hydropower in Austria
While small hydropower plants depended in the past on the tariffs policy of the provincial governors with their provincial power utilities and the "Verbundgesellschaft", they are today full competitors on a liberalised energy market.  [more...]



 Industry Criticises the Recently Adopted Green Electricity Act
 First Experience with Certificate Trading
In full operation in Austria since January 1, 2002, more than 5 million certificates were generated until April. Nevertheless, the required share might not be fully reached this year.  [more...]



 A Chance for Survival: Small Water Certificates
In an interview with "Aqua Press International" (API) the president of the Austrian Association for the Promotion of Small Hydropower Stations (OEVFK), Hanns Kottulinsky, underlines the importance of "small water certificates" for the survival of small power generators.  [more...]



 Energy from Nature
Electricity has become a vital element in our society for working, cooking, lighting, etc. Since Austria cannot have atomic power plants due to a referendum, the necessary power is generated in environmentally sound hydropower plants and caloric works.   [more...]



 Power for the People: From Hall to Nepal
According to tradition, Austria’s electricity largely comes from hydropower. Tradition is also very important for the Geppert company in the construction of small-scale hydropower stations, precisely since 1896. The idea to supply many people in Tyrol with electricity may have occurred to company founder Carl Geppert during his practical training at the "Rüsch-Werke" in Dornbirn.  [more...]



 Small Hydropower Stations in Austria
Small suppliers generate 7.5 percent of the total electrical power needed in our country in an environmentally friendly way. The latest amendment of the EIWOG shall support them. We all remember clearly the protests of atomic power opponents against the atomic power station Temelin at the borders to the Czech Republic. But although we protest against the energy policy of our neighbour, the Austrian energy management imports about 4,100 kWh of electricity from the Czech Republic (and thus also from Slovenia and Hungary) paradoxically generated in atomic power stations.  [more...]




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