Oak Ridge National Laboratory is investigating whether thousands of abandoned coal mines scattered across the United States could serve as underground reservoirs for pumped storage hydropower, ...

A Texas company wants to build a $50 million hydroelectric project at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Saylorville Dam, a move it says would reduce Iowa's reliance on coal to generate electricity.

A state-backed hydroelectric plant is on track to come to the former steel town of Braddock, but permitting delays have slowed the project and driven up costs. The Thursday meeting of the Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

New exclusions could accelerate approvals for maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement of facilities at FERC-licensed hydropower projects In a decision notable enough to merit a novel docket ...

Construction in Maine will resume next week on an electricity transmission project bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid despite a half-billion dollar cost increase, the head of ...

Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain ...