This is the fourth in a series of posts about how system-scale perspectives are vital to the planning and development of sustainable power systems, including hydropower. The previous post focused on ...

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Hydropower provides a vast majority of Kentucky's renewable electricity generation, and many unused dams could offer an opportunity for more. Unlike other technologies like solar and wind, hydropower ...

The selections — funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law — are aimed at enhancing dam safety, improving grid resilience and protecting jobs. The Energy Department announced it had selected nearly ...

The U.S. has a long record of extracting resources on Native lands and ignoring tribal opposition, but a decision by federal energy regulators to deny permits for seven proposed hydropower projects ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass. - The tide is turning in favor of hydropower. The recent acquisition by Agilitas Energy of the 30-megawatt Tygart Hydropower Project in Grafton, West Virginia, and the 14-megawatt ...

At first glance, the potential for hydropower in the U.S. seems limited. Of the country’s 84,000 dams, only a small fraction produce hydropower, and the country seems to have an appetite for tearing ...

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan that had ...

Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain ...