Hydropower & Dams

Managing unprecedented RCC challenges at Gibe III dam.

The Economist

African energy
Easter El Dorado?

International Water Power

Powering on with hydro designs
With over 60 years of experience, Studio Pietrangeli prides itself on merging technical qualifications with culture and creativity to find solutions to challenging engineering problems. Here the company discusses the importance of powerhouse design in hydropower project development.

National Geographic

Africa, latest frontier
Ethiopia's Omo Valley is still a place ruled by ritual and revenge, but change is coming, from up river

Hydroworld

Studio Pietrangeli wins the contract for Ruzizi cascade HPPs.

The Financial Gazette

Italian firm wins Batoka tender
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), a company jointly owned by the government of Zimabwe and Zambia, has engaged an Italian firm to update the feasibility studies for the proposed bi-national Batoka Gorge hydro-electric project.

African Review

Batoka Gorge HPP capacity to increase to 2'400 MW
The power generating capacity of the Batoka Gorge hydropower plant is expected to increase to 2'400 MW from the originally-expected capacity of 1'600 MW.

Water Power

GIBE III Record Breaker
- Highest RCC dam in the world (249 m)
- Highest RCC daily production (18'519 m3/day)

Water Power

Gibe III and Grand Ethiopian Renassance among the five largest hydropower plants under construction in Africa.

Hydropower & Dams

New RCC placement world record at GERDp dam (23'200 m3/day).

Il Venerdì di Repubblica

The new locomotive of Africa
The GERdp projects Ethiopia toward an impetious growth.

Repubblica.it

Giorgio Pietrangeli with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi during his visit to Gibe III - July 2015

Jamaica information services

Studio Pietrangeli signs a new contract for 6 small hydro in Jamaica

Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

Studio Pietrangeli Projects on Wikipedia:

• RIO GRANDE PSP
  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complejo_Hidroeléctrico_Río_Grande
• BELES HPP
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beles_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant
• GIBE III HPP
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgel_Gibe_III_Dam
• GIBE II HPP
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgel_Gibe_II_Power_Station
• BUMBUNA HPP
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumbuna
• GRAND ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE (GERdp)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam

Observer on Saturday

ITALIANS GET NOD FOR E20M NONDVO DAM STUDY
Studio Pietrangeli has won the bid to undertake the feasibility study of Nondvo dam.

Water Power

Koysha, Gibe III and GERD, entirely designed by Studio Pietrangeli, among the key projects under development across Africa.