Japan’s Ricoh has designed a micro hydropower system for sewage plants that could potentially be used in combination with ground-mounted solar or floating PV. The system features a sustainable water ...

For nearly two years, a construction project has been underway on the Blackstone River at the waterfall by the Highland Falls condo complex in Cumberland. First, a road was built to the site and some ...

PNNL is partnering with Percheron Power, LLC, to help the Kennewick, Wash.-based small business make hydropower cheaper. PNNL is helping Percheron evaluate using composite instead of steel to make ...

Around 3.6 million households in the Philippines are not connected to the national power grid. In the country’s mountainous north, some villages have overcome this challenge by building and ...

THE government has committed to provide electricity to the entire population by 2007. Out of a total of around 130,000 villages, 99,600 were electrified at the end of March 2006. There are still ...

A hydroelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing the kinetic energy of running water. Now you can not only find stationary larger-scale hydroelectric generators but also portable micro ...

Water flowing in the Lehigh Canal in Easton could become a clean and renewable energy source. Northampton County Council voted Thursday to back a proposed hydroelectric power generator in the Lehigh ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - Hydropower costs could be reduced, buildings could use less energy and adhesives could be made from plants under three new projects announced today by the Department of Energy. DOE's ...

Nearly two centuries ago, the Lehigh Valley’s canals began transporting coal as part of an extensive waterway network that brought fuel from northeast Pennsylvania to the Eastern Seaboard. Now those ...