The impacts of climate change are being experienced across the power generation industry, and certainly in the hydropower sector, with generation directly tied to the ebbs and flows of precipitation.

Droughts linked to climate change are reducing water flow in rivers and reservoirs, causing significant drops in hydropower production worldwide. Countries heavily reliant on hydropower, like China, ...

Pumped storage is making up a growing share of hydropower projects proposed or under development, which could be significant for renewables, observers say. A massive clean energy project that doesn’t ...

Every day, Americans turn on their lights and plug in their devices without thinking twice about where their electricity is coming from. Yet, many have no idea that there is a domestic, dependable, ...

Norway is partnering with the U.S. to advance hydropower research, innovation, and technology sharing. Statkraft is leading major hydropower plant upgrades, including $390M and $590M projects at key ...

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 ...

A hydropower dam in the Italian Alps. This is the second in a series of blog posts examining how system-scale approaches to energy planning can help resolve the contradictions at the heart of global ...

Hydropower is regaining global attention as a flexible, scalable, and underutilized solution for energy security and renewable integration.

The power grid produces as it is consumed. Energy production rises and falls in tandem with human activity, allowing electricity to flow continuously into homes and businesses. However, this flow can ...