Consider harnessing microhydro systems, getting flowing water and sustainable home electricity. Read on to find important points to consider when looking for home hydroelectric power kits.

Chiggers Stokes created DIY Hydropower for his remote off-grid cabin and learned hard lessons along the way. In July of 1978, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, I stood on land shown on ...

As Dominion Energy evaluates Virginia’s coalfields region for a hydroelectric pumped storage facility, a bill by U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith that would expedite such projects passed the U.S. House of ...

The country’s generating capacity — the amount of potential energy from hydropower — has scarcely budged since 1990, the end of the dam-building era. After World War II, hydropower accounted for more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has approved a bill aimed at expanding hydroelectric power, an action supporters said would boost a clean source of renewable energy but ...

The water flowing gently out of the dam and toward the Pacific, unnaturally calm but undeniably peaceful. Water flows out of Brownlee Dam on the Snake River, upstream of Hells Canyon Dam. (Robert ...

But not all of the small hydro projects promoted by the 2013 law hit this sweet spot, because the law also allows the electrification of on-stream dams that don’t already have turbines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has approved a bill aimed at expanding hydroelectric power, an action supporters said would boost a clean source of renewable energy but oppon… ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has approved a bill aimed at expanding hydroelectric power, an action supporters said would boost a clean source of renewable energy but oppon… ...