Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change. Drought and age ...

When I arrived in Reykjavík, Iceland, last March, a gravel barrier, almost thirty feet at its highest point, had been constructed to keep lava from the Reykjanes volcano from inundating a major ...

The world's transition to a net-zero future requires vast amounts of long-duration energy storage, a need that current lithium-ion batteries cannot fully meet because they can only store energy for a ...

Sizable Energy set up its aquatic, gravity-based storage device at a test facility in the Netherlands in September to prove it can withstand choppy seas. (Sizable Energy) The ocean has beckoned to ...

Mass Megawatts has unveiled a new hydroelectric technology with a claimed quick financial payback: a low-cost hydroelectric power system that the company argues can pay for itself in less than two ...

Abstract: Nowadays, global energy trends (large-scale emergence of weather-dependent energy producers, electrification) call for the development of energy storage technologies and their integration ...

As Idaho’s population expands and droughts increase in frequency, the state faces unprecedented challenges in balancing energy-water supply with rising demand. Such challenges press the following ...