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Electricity-hungry Africa urged to use hydropower, increase capacity

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Africa, in urgent need of electricity to lighten millions of households and fuel economic development, should make a better use of its enormous hydropower potential, energy experts and officials heard recently.

The hydropower potential of the continent, mostly in central and western Africa, amounts to 13 percent of the world and can play a critical role in meeting its energy needs while safeguarding the criteria of sustainable development, said Joshua Ofedie, CEO of Ghana’s Volta River Authority (VRA). But the enormous low cost hydroelectric potential, such as from the Inga Falls in the Democratic Republic of the …


Yangtze Power output up 8.85 percent

China View-April 10th 2006BEIJING- Yangtze Electric Power Co., operator of the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam, said Friday it had generated 8.85 percent more electricity in the first quarter than a year earlier.

Yangtze Power produced 5.77 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in the January-March period, with 43 percent of the output coming from the Three Gorges, it said in a statement.

The company, China’s most valuable power firm, shares Three Gorges output with its State-owned parent, China Three Gorges Project Corp. The plant is the world’s largest hydropower project.

Its share of the dam’s output had been 3.378 million MWh in the first …


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