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How mountain lakes are being used to store the world’s excess renewable energy

High in the Swiss Alps a pair of giant Wolff tower cranes are working to replace a dam at lake Grimsel. Alex Dahm reports

D.A. Collins utilized a Link-Belt 248 HYLAB 5 lattice crawler and Link-Belt ATC-3275 all-terrain. 

Mountains, tight turns, steep inclines and minimal space were all challenges met by Fanger with its 160 tonne Demag AT crane on a dam job in the Swiss Alps

Flood protection scheme in UK boosted as Ainscough Crane Hire was enlisted to install 8.5 metre gate using 500 tonne Liebherrs

New CS350 climbing jack lifting system joins CS1000 and CS5000 models in the Sarens heavy lift fleet

The company will custom-build an engineered, suspended platform to operate within the penstocks of the new $9b Canadian megaproject 

Contractor Fulton Hogan takes delivery of 120 tonne capacity Tadano crawler crane for remote dam project

Ibergru, Linden Comansa distributor in Portugal, has supplied 15 flat top tower cranes for the Baixo Sabor hydro electric plant project in Torre de Moncorvo

Larsen & Toubro has provided two Potain MC 475 cranes for a major hydroelectric power project in India

A trio of Potain tower cranes are being used on a hydroelectric dam expansion project in the USA

Brazil's Santo Antonio dam is under construction by the Madeira Energia consortium using a fleet of 10 Liebherr tower cranes

Enerpac used its power lifting hydraulic system to help install eight 300 tonne Hydroplus Fuse gates in a new auxiliary spillway to protect the Jindabyne Dam, part of Australia's Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme. IC reports