Utility’s proposed sale of 13 Michigan dams involves buying back electricity for 30 years at double the market rate for ...
A chart showing the global amount of megawatts produced, since the 1920s, using hydropower by traditional and pumped storage facilities as well as others. The chart shows a significant increase in ...
As the gates leading from Sam Rayburn Lake open, the water rushes towards the Kaplan turbines some 100’ below. The river begins to rise and swell below the dam as the ground below your feet vibrates ...
America’s hydropower industry, its oldest and largest source of renewable energy, is at a crossroads, facing aging ...
When the Portuguese electric power grid needs more electricity, a large multinational power company releases millions of gallons of water from a dammed reservoir. By Stanley Reed Photographs by ...
A traditional power plant would generate 8,000 tons of carbon dioxide to create the same amount of energy that a proposed hydroelectric generating system in the Lehigh River could do cleanly, ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers highlighted the role of hydroelectric power in the region’s renewable energy push during a Thursday media tour of Bonneville Dam. The Corps hosted the event to mark ...