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 completion of Site C dam in 2025 brought a new 1.1GW hydropower asset online, using upstream storage and modern civil design ...

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The energy interruption from the new Canada-to-New-England line raises questions about the region’s electricity mix. When a new transmission line carrying Canadian hydropower into New England opened ...

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2026—The World Bank Group’s Boards of Executive Directors today approved a financing package to increase the Kingdom of Bhutan’s hydropower generation, facilitate regional ...

Stretched down a 145-mile path through the woods of western Maine, the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line is fully built, tested, and sending juice our way as of Friday. The route for ...

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The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator. The devil here is, of course, in all the ...

MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Portland General Electric and The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs said Thursday they are undertaking a complex project to replace the original turbine shutoff valves at ...

In late November, in a quiet corner of Devon, England, workers began adding a secret, light brown powder to water as they mixed up a special fluid that can store energy. They blended it with the ...