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

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 ...

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 ...

Nordic data center operator Bulk Infrastructure has signed a long-term hydropower Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Å Energi in Åseral, Norway. According to the companies, the PPA will support the ...

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 ...

Two Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants have been decommissioned due to the damage from the May 8 Russian attacks, state-owned energy company Ukrhydroenergo reported on May 9. Russia carried out a ...

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 ...

The world’s largest hybrid pumped hydro storage facility, being built at the Lianghekou Dam ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...