If you’ve ever observed a river rushing down a mountain or played in the waves at the beach, you’ve felt that moving water contains a lot of energy. A river can push you and your kayak downstream, ...

Pumped hydro energy storage is a controversial issue, with its supporters believing it can help decarbonize the global economy and its detractors claiming dams destroy the environment. In order to ...

Hydropower, the largest source of clean energy, is facing an existential threat due to climate change-induced droughts. Droughts in China, Brazil, the US, and Europe have significantly reduced ...

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 ...

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Context matters for enterprises, especially if it changes dramatically, and this is what is happening in Nepal’s hydropower sector. It is primarily about economics. The price of electricity generated ...

INDIVIDUALS LIKE YOU AND ME. TED HAS MORE. ♪ TED: MASSACHUSETTS HAS SET A GOAL OF ATTAINING NET ZERO EMISSIONS THE YEA20R 50. TO MEET THAT OBJECTIVE, THE STATE IS BANKING ON A BIG JOLT OF ...

In Washington, a dozen dams dot the Columbia River — that mighty waterway carved through the state by a sequence of prehistoric superfloods. Between those dams and the hundreds of others that plug the ...

The move follows the company's 15-year, 220MW, four-hour virtual tolling agreement with Akaysha Energy earlier in 2025.

To cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half within a decade, the Biden administration’s goal, the U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage.

Chris Wright, the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, began his visit in the Tri-Cities at Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the ...