The water rushing through the canal originated way up in the Lesotho mountains and its final destination – if you live in Gauteng – should be your shower or sink. But on this leg of its journey ...

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested ...

More than four months since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people, including 27 young campers and counselors, ...

This past summer, Montreal-based company Deep Sky completed its first CO₂-capturing plant near Calgary, Alberta. The ...

On June 10, 1987, a 7-foot diameter wooden pipe (flume) that carried water from the Lake Summit dam to the Tuxedo Hydro Station burst. The resulting torrent excavated 15,000 cubic yards of dirt and ...

Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, ...

New York is making a push for clean energy. 5.6 million Renewable Energy Certificates will be handed out across the state.

Over 450 U.S. hydro plants need relicensing within a decade, demanding billions in upgrades to meet environmental and safety standards. Falling costs of gas, wind, and solar power are undercutting ...

The IEA's Executive Director recently made statements supporting hydropower. He underestimates the damage done by deforestation that hydropower dams necessitate.

Mass Megawatts has unveiled the Hydromat, a low-cost hydroelectric power system that claims to pay for itself in under two ...

The United States has long used hydropower, which is now the country’s largest source of renewable energy, for electricity production. Hydropower contributed 27 percent of total U.S. utility-scale ...

Utility’s proposed sale of 13 Michigan dams involves buying back electricity for 30 years at double the market rate for ...