Hydropower was long the country’s leading source of renewable energy, but it was passed in 2019 by wind and in 2025 by utility-scale solar. It’s still significant, though, with 5.6 percent of U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

SN Aboitiz Power Group (SNAP) is evolving from a traditional hydropower operator into a renewable energy platform to support ...

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 ...

For many families, Saturday is “laundry day.” But when every household washes clothes at the same time, the water pressure ...

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, ...

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 ...

Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.

New hydropower projects are planned for Jammu and Kashmir. Water may be diverted to northern states. India is expanding power generation capacity, focusing on renewables like solar and nuclear energy.