Hydropower, primarily from the Hoover Dam, accounts for about 40 percent of the renewable energy produced in Nevada. The Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam harnesses the energy of the Colorado River to ...

Climate Solutions Giving old dams new life could spark an energy boom. Out of about 90,000 dams in the U.S., few generate hydropower. A push to retrofit nonpowered dams could change that.

Hydropower has several advantages. Once a dam has been built and the equipment installed, the energy source—flowing water—is free. It's a clean fuel source renewed by snow and rainfall.

With hydropower dams at the heart of debates about energy and the environment, Reality Check looks at what's behind the dam-building rush. Energy for growth.

“Hydropower is, or it can be, a very viable complement for the other renewables.” The U.S. has some 80,000 dams, and only 2,000 are being used to harness electricity, according to Uria-Martinez.

Under Biden last year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation finalized a decision to allow releases of water to bypass Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower infrastructure to curb invasive fish populations.

Brazil, the second-largest producer of hydropower worldwide, gets 86 percent of its electricity from water resources. It is home to an estimated 450 dams, including the Itaipu Dam, which generates ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In southwestern Pennsylvania, eight locks and dams that for decades helped barges move goods along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers will in a few years also generate ...

Problems at the Oroville dam in California in 2017 saw 10,000 people evacuated A new study says that many large-scale hydropower projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.

The collapse of a newly built dam in Laos has shone a spotlight on a worldwide construction boom. Many thousands of hydropower dams are either planned or under construction - across South East ...