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Private and public - time to work together?
14 December, 2004
Constantine Ogunbiyi looks at the reasons for the perceived success or failure of schemes to attract private sector participation in the power sector, and argues that a new paradigm has to be developed, in which the public and private sectors work together in a partnership in which both commit to investing in the power supply

Utilising nuclear techniques
01 December, 2004
Kamal Laksiri gives a brief report on the use of safe nuclear techniques in dam and reservoir seepage and leakage investigations

Power from Pamir
01 September, 2004
David Hayes takes a look at how work is commencing on Tajikistan’s Pamir hydro power project

A market in deficit
17 August, 2004
Completion of the development stage of Ecuador’s Sabanilla hydroelectric project is a milestone in a country where private investment in electricity has been absent, say Carlos Diego Jácome and Edgar Almeida

Privatisation likely for Georgian hydro stations
23 July, 2004
Georgia’s Economic Development Ministry has included five hydroelectric power plants, with a combined capacity of 250MW, in a list of companies that will be privatised over the next 18 months.

Growing pains for Indian small hydro
20 July, 2004
With environmental concerns making new large hydro schemes politically unfeasible and conventional thermal resources simply too expensive for large-scale deployment, the government of Kerala state in southern India is turning to mini-hydro to meet its growing power demand. David Appleyard reports

Weighing up small hydro
24 June, 2004
A new approach for assessing environmental impact may help to change perceptions of hydro power, says Björn Svensson

A winning combination
21 June, 2004
PPL Montana’s commitments on the Missouri and Madison rivers have led to the company being named as one of the winners of the National Hydropower Association’s Outstanding Stewardship of America’s Rivers award

Flash of inspiration
17 May, 2004
The United Arab Emirates is extending its flash flood dam construction programme as part of efforts to increase the availability of fresh water supplies. David Hayes reports on the work being undertaken in the country and gives details on some of the most important flash flood dams

On the market
24 March, 2004
Will the contents of a new framework for developing market reforms in Brazil lead the hydro-dominated electricity supply industry to successfully create a commodities market, or turn it into a 'dead man walking'?

And the winner is...?
16 February, 2004
Risk-adjusted discounted cash flow methodology is leading to a radically revised costing hierarchy between power generation technologies. Hydro could soon be considered the most valuable of them all, explains Tim Sharp

The next wave - funding hydro in India
27 January, 2004
I.M.Sahai explores the various avenues of funding available to hydro power projects under development in India

Money matters for hydro
22 January, 2004
As the year 2003 saw hydro generation projects around the world finding themselves in financial difficulties, Richard Metcalf looks at project finance and considers whether this financing technique still offers a viable method of developing hydro power projects