Complexity is a product of building the system over years. 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Water wheels represent one of the oldest methods for converting the kinetic energy of flowing water into mechanical power, yet they continue to garner attention as a sustainable solution for micro ...

When you flip on the lights, plug in your phone or turn on the heat at home or at work, there’s a high likelihood that the electricity powering your daily life flows from hydropower. Part of Montana's ...

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

Arizona is becoming EV country. With nearly 90,000 electric vehicles registered there, it’s among the top 10 states for EV ownership in the nation per capita, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Hydropower dams aren’t sustainable—they destroy ecosystems, worsen climate change, and rely on rainfall patterns they help disrupt. Across the world, they’re drying up, failing to deliver clean energy ...

Emily Benton Hite has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. She is affiliated with Save the World's Rivers and the Global River Protection ...

India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, a significant water-sharing agreement, which supplies Pakistan with water from the Indus basin rivers. Pakistan relies heavily on the Indus basin for ...