Hydroelectric
Federal officials are sending $430 million to 212 aging American hydropower plants that quietly power millions of homes but haven’t seen a major upgrade in decades
Across the United States, hundreds of hydropower plants have been generating electricity for decades — some for more than a...
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The DOE is releasing $430 million to modernize hundreds of aging American hydropower plants across the country
America's hydropower fleet is easy to overlook — a quiet, largely invisible backbone of the national grid, its turbines spinning...
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Norway’s century-old hydropower tunnels are getting a multibillion-dollar second life before the lights go out
Deep inside Norwegian mountains, tunnels blasted from solid rock six to eight decades ago still channel water to turbines that...
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Norway’s mountain turbines have been humming since the 1920s and Statkraft just bet billions that they’ll still be running in 2100
Deep inside Norwegian mountains, turbines have been spinning quietly for nearly a century — carved into rock, fed by glacial...
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60,000 MW unleashed — China’s Himalayan dam will outscale Three Gorges
Yes, China's Himalayan desert is set to outscale the Three Gorges Dam project, slowly becoming known as one of the...
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The Power of Water
Water makes up 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and 60 percent of the human body. It creates and sustains...
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