Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling from extreme weather ...

The Colorado River basin, on the whole, is drying. That’s frightful for the 40 million people and 5 million acres that the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ $1.2B hydropower rehab program is modernizing nine plants to improve efficiency and meet ...

Voith Hydro in 2022 replaced four vertical Pelton turbines at Verbund’s 75-year-old 326-GWh Gerlos 1 hydropower facility in Austria with a first-of-its-kind horizontal six-nozzle Pelton turbine.

Montgomery County Commissioners on Nov. 10 amended the contract and advertised a request for proposals related to the project ...

Blocked passages for fish and turbine-induced mortality of downstream migrating fish are major environmental issues for hydropower projects. Direct spillage is one method to protect downstream fish ...

First Gen Corp. is beefing up its hydro portfolio with 213 megawatts (MW) of new hydro power projects with an estimated investment of $652 million. “From our current portfolio of three major hydro ...

A pioneering horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine developed by Voith Hydro at the 326-GWh Gerlos 1 pumped storage facility in the Ziller Valley, Austria, is setting new benchmarks for the ...

Water leaking into an aging and shuttered city hydro-electric generating facility at the O'Shaughnessy Dam, near the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and other construction issues have put a city project to ...

LACHINE, Can., May 16, 2003 — GE Hydro will replace four turbine runners at Manitoba Hydro’s Pointe du Bois Generating Station, increasing plant output while meeting an extremely tight installation ...