As the cold tests the resilience of hydropower infrastructure, operators are refining ways to monitor and ...

Equipment at a hydropower unit operated by Kansai Electric Power Co. is being upgraded at the Kasagi power plant in Ena, Gifu Prefecture, in August 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major electric ...

The Julius Nyerere hydroelectric dam seeks to address Africa’s growing demand for electricity as well as sustainable development. The project includes a 134-meter-high by 1,025-m-long dam and a ...

Norwegian renewable energy company Norsk Hydro (OTCQX:NHYDY) plans to streamline its European extrusions business by proposing the closure of five plants as part of an effort to sharpen ...

The recycled-content aluminum producer will close extrusion plants in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Combined, the plants to be closed have eight extrusion presses and ...

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 ...

Hydro has made the final investment decision for its largest hydropower development in over 20 years. Construction of the Illvatn pumped storage power plant in the Luster Municipality will begin this ...

With food stamp checks expected to be withheld due to the federal government shutdown, low-income residents are a food pantry in St. Lawrence County are anxious about where their food will come from; ...

Growing up in Evanston, Libby Shafer hated the city’s grass lawns. They are overly manicured, which is “wasteful” and takes up too much space and energy, she said. Now, the third-year plant biology ...

Tucked away in a dense French forest, a hydroelectric power plant built during the 1940s stands silent and overgrown. Its turbine hall is frozen in time, rusting equipment half-submerged in water and ...

HOLYOKE — Municipal electric utilities — like those in Holyoke, Westfield, Chicopee, South Hadley and even tiny Chester and Russell — sell electricity for about half what their neighboring ...

Continuous rainfall and flash floods on October 4 and 5 have forced the shutdown of five major hydropower plants across the country. The affected projects are Tala, Suchhu, Dagachhu, Punatsangchhu-II, ...