The Belo Monte hydropower plant, located in the Brazilian Amazon, is one of the largest in the world. It was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...

A proposal to build a hydroelectric power plant near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area won preliminary approval from federal regulators earlier this month. The Desert Bloom Project is a ...

ALBANY — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that nearly $11 million in federal funds will go to upgrades at eight upstate hydropower plants, including two in the Capital ...

Litostroj Power has signed a contract with S.S.H. Hidroserv S.A. of Bucharest to supply key equipment for the Stejaru hydropower plant ...

Energi has awarded Veidekke a NOK580m (US$60m) contract to construct the 21MW Øygard power plant in southern Norway ...

The first ever Europe-wide inventory of hydropower plants shows rivers to be saturated with hydropower dams and thousands more on the cards. This is despite EU rules which should limit new hydropower ...

Utility-scale batteries can revolutionize how we harness renewable power. Coupled with wind and solar, these batteries could increase the reliability of green energy by storing excess energy during ...

Rio Tinto is making a major investment in the future of clean energy production in Quebec, partnering with GE Vernova to modernize eight turbine-alternator units at its nearly century-old Isle-Maligne ...

IDAHO FALLS – In many electricity markets, hydropower operators earn a significant portion of their revenue from the day-ahead market. In this market, utilities buy electricity based on expected ...

Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during periods of drought has cost Western U.S. states about $20 billion over the past two decades, according to new findings from Stanford University ...

Washington state’s Lake Merwin Dam (Credit: Anuj Sanghvi, NREL) The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework (CVF), a free, ...