61% of hydropower dams worldwide will be in river basins with high to extreme risk of water scarcity, floods or both by 2050 Climate change will dramatically increase the frequency of floods and ...

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

Hydropower provides a vast majority of Kentucky's renewable electricity generation, and many unused dams could offer an opportunity for more. Unlike other technologies like solar and wind, hydropower ...

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 ...

Most of Brookfield’s revenue in the second quarter of the year was driven by its hydropower projects, rather than its solar facilities. Image: Brookfield Renewable. US independent power producer (IPP) ...

The new small run-of-river hydropower project on Juniper Creek in Eagle River that was featured in the Anchorage Daily News a few weeks ago is a fine example of responsibly harvesting our local ...