An EPFL engineer has illustrated some of the complex ways in which climate change will affect hydropower facilities, taking the Gries dam in Valais Canton as a case study. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Hydropower dams aren’t sustainable—they destroy ecosystems, worsen climate change, and rely on rainfall patterns they help disrupt. Across the world, they’re drying up, failing to deliver clean energy ...

Five hydropower dams are currently being built in the Cardamom Mountains with reservoirs set to collectively span more than 15,000 hectares (37,065 acres) across protected forests. Three of these new ...

Consumers Energy is asking Michigan's energy regulators for approval to sell its suite of 13 dams to a Maryland energy investment firm and to enter into an agreement with the company to purchase the ...

Consumers Energy announced Tuesday it signed an agreement to sell its 13 hydroelectric dams to a Maryland hydropower company that will continue to operate the dams and use them to generate electricity ...

The Răstolița hydropower dam would impact 10 rivers, 43 protected areas and 170 hectares of forests - and communities and nature that depend on them. And would infringe national laws and European ...

China has begun constructing the Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Project in Tibet, poised to become the world's most powerful ...

Consumers Energy plans to pay a premium price to buy back power from its 13 hydropower dams after selling them to a private equity firm for $1 apiece, the company revealed Friday in filings with state ...

Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating ...

ROSARIO, ARGENTINA - Aerial view of the traces of a disappearing river on July 4, 2021 in Rosario, Argentina. At less than half of its historical average, the low flow of the Parana river affects ...

LANSING, MI — Consumers Energy wants state regulators to approve a 30-year deal that would involve paying a private buyer twice the market rate for comparable hydropower in exchange for selling its ...

Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change. Drought and age ...