The Belo Monte hydropower plant, located in the Brazilian Amazon, is one of the largest in the world. It was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...

Energi has awarded supplier contracts worth around NOK 1bn for the construction of the Øygard hydropower plant ...

Utility-scale batteries can revolutionize how we harness renewable power. Coupled with wind and solar, these batteries could increase the reliability of green energy by storing excess energy during ...

ALBANY — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that nearly $11 million in federal funds will go to upgrades at eight upstate hydropower plants, including two in the Capital ...

IDAHO FALLS – In many electricity markets, hydropower operators earn a significant portion of their revenue from the day-ahead market. In this market, utilities buy electricity based on expected ...

The first ever Europe-wide inventory of hydropower plants shows rivers to be saturated with hydropower dams and thousands more on the cards. This is despite EU rules which should limit new hydropower ...

Around 158,000 households in Nueva Ecija are now benefitting from the 5-megawatt (MW) Dupinga run-of-river (ROR) hydro power plant in the municipality of Gabaldon. In a news release Monday, ...

Sognekraft has signed an agreement with Veidekke to construct the Offerdal hydropower plant in Årdal, Norway. The target ...

Two recent studies published in Biological Conservation and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the ...

Tens of thousands of Moldovans have been left without water after a Russian strike on a hydroelectric plant in neighboring Ukraine resulted in oil polluting a major river that flows through both count ...

Washington state’s Lake Merwin Dam (Credit: Anuj Sanghvi, NREL) The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework (CVF), a free, ...

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 ...