Hydroelectric Power Generation Industry Competitors

CE Casecnan Water and Energy Company won't sell you down the river, but it will sell you the electricity generated on rivers in the Philippines. The company developed, constructed, and is operating a 150 MW hydroelectric plant and irrigation control facility on the Casecnan and Taan rivers in the central Luzon Island in the Republic of the Philippines....

A mighty big river runs through this one. China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) is building the world's largest hydropower project -- the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River. Located near the Xilingxia gorge, a 185-meter-high project dam controls a drainage area of 1 million square km and an average annual runoff of 451 billion cubic meters....

China Yangtze Power generates hydropower on the Yangtze River from its two hydropower plants -- The Three Gorges Power Plant and Gezhouba Power Plant. CYPC has an installed generating capacity of 6,977 MW. It oversees China's Three Gorges Dam project (the world's largest hydroelectric dam) on behalf of China Yangtze Three Gorges Development, which holds more than 60% of CYPC....

The dryly named electric utility Electric Power Development Co. has a much more fun nickname -- J-POWER. With a generating capacity of 16,380 MW, the company supplies power used all over Japan. It has 67 hydroelectric plants, as well as some thermal and geothermal plants, and owns a transmission network that covers 2,400 km....

Privatization is the light at the end of the tunnel for Companhia Energética de São Paulo, one of Brazil's largest power generators. Known as CESP, the company is the largest generator of electricity used in the Brazilian state of São Paulo....

Itaipu Binacional is more than a dam or even power plant. The project encompasses the Itaipu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant as well as Itaipu Lake and resulting environs. Built on the Paraná River (which serves as the border between Brazil and Paraguay) Itaipu Binacional serves both countries by providing electricity through the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant....