Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. The light-colored bathtub ring around Lake Mead shows how much water level has dropped because of drought. (Photo by: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Hydropower remains the Pacific Northwest’s largest source of affordable, reliable, clean electricity. As extreme weather events impact our region more often, hydropower and cutting-edge technologies ...

One of the biggest hydropower plants in South America is ramping up electricity generation as the historic drought in the Amazon in September and October has eased and the rainy season has begun. The ...

As it races to build ever larger data centers, Google on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay more than $3 billion to source carbon-free hydropower from Brookfield Asset Management’s company, Brookfield ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will award Avista Utilities more than $1 million for evaluation of flexibility of a series of hydropower facilities along the Columbia ...

Aspen’s steep valleys and flowing creeks hold high potential for energy production, giving the city a long history with hydropower. From a mining town to a ski town, the city has almost always relied ...

A potential rate increase from the New York Power Authority in hydropower brings with it some concerns for the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities and local customers and businesses that may be ...

Early this century, the Vernon Station hydropower dam on the Connecticut River generated an average of 135,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In 2008, nearly a century after the Vermont dam was first ...

Governments and policy makers need to pay more attention to hydropower as a major source of low-emission flexible power generation in the age of booming electricity demand, Fatih Birol, the executive ...