When John Glenn orbited Earth in 1962, he marveled at a ribbon of green farmland cutting through the desert northwest of El Paso — a living…
For nearly 90 years, Hoover Dam anchored rural Nevada’s energy economy. It provided reliable, low-cost hydropower to small utilities and their customers. Local folks came to count…
Water descending from Yosemite National Park through the Sierra Nevada foothills passes through the Moccasin Powerhouse on its way to the taps of 2.7 million San…
On June 1, with no ceremony and no visible trace above ground, electricity began flowing through a 339-mile cable buried beneath fields, lakes, and city streets—from…
Across the United States, hundreds of hydropower plants have been generating electricity for decades — some for more than a century — quietly keeping lights on…
America’s hydropower fleet is easy to overlook — a quiet, largely invisible backbone of the national grid, its turbines spinning in dams built generations ago. Yet…
Deep inside Norwegian mountains, tunnels blasted from solid rock six to eight decades ago still channel water to turbines that have quietly powered a country for…
Deep inside Norwegian mountains, turbines have been spinning quietly for nearly a century — carved into rock, fed by glacial rivers, largely invisible to the millions…
Yes, China’s Himalayan desert is set to outscale the Three Gorges Dam project, slowly becoming known as one of the largest hydropower dam projects in the…
On March 2, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to invest $3.7 million to expand collaboration on the sometimes competing goals of maintaining…
Renewable energy is having its moment in the sun – so to speak – almost as if it’s a new concept, but the resources that provide…
Water makes up 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and 60 percent of the human body. It creates and sustains life. It’s abundant and powerful enough…
