61% of hydropower dams worldwide will be in river basins with high to extreme risk of water scarcity, floods or both by 2050 Climate change will dramatically increase the frequency of floods and ...

What’s more, hydropower is the backbone of Washington’s clean energy grid, providing 80%-90% of clean energy in Washington, ...

The US House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved the Build More Hydro Bill (H.R. 2072) ...

Construction in Maine will resume next week on an electricity transmission project bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid despite a half-billion dollar cost increase, the head of ...

Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce ...

The recent approval of two hydropower dams in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains could undermine a REDD+ carbon project in the area. The Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project relies on keeping the forests in ...

Dug In: Leftover mining infrastructure at the abandoned Eagle Mountain iron mine. As Eagle Crest Energy awaits what it hopes will be final governmental approval for its proposed $2 billion hydropower ...

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Early this century, the Vernon Station hydropower dam on the Connecticut River generated an average of 135,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In 2008, nearly a century after the Vermont dam was first ...

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has completed three hydropower projects with a combined capacity of 63 megawatts using its own resources, a move expected to generate Rs4.4 billion in annual revenue ...