The long-term drying of the American Southwest poses a gathering and measurable threat to hydropower generation in the Colorado River basin. Should Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, ...

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) -- The hydroelectric dam over the Des Moines River may be used as a source of electricity if city officials decide to set its impellers spinning again. The dam was shut down as ...

Located in the city of Jurong and built by a subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China, the fully operational facility has a total installed capacity of 1.35 gigawatts and is expected to generate ...

FILE - Construction of Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River was completed in 1938. It's now one 31 federal dams whose hydropower is marketed by BPA. The Bonneville Power Administration was born out ...

Consumers Energy plans to pay a premium price to buy back power from its 13 hydropower dams after selling them to a private equity firm for $1 apiece.

A new way of generating clean power could run your lights with rain. Hydropower typically relies on the movement of water to create electricity through mechanical energy, such as spinning turbines in ...

Around this time, 89 years ago, the Hoover Dam began supplying electricity to the city of Los Angeles.Finished in 1935 and located along the Nevada and Arizona state lines, the concrete arch structure ...

Like many people, you probably flip on a light switch without thinking about where the electricity in the wires is coming from. For many people in the American West, at least some of their power comes ...

Utility’s proposed sale of 13 Michigan dams involves buying back electricity for 30 years at double the market rate for ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced the formal launch of a massive hydroelectric project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. To mark the occasion, a groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 19 ...