Watch this impressive concrete water diversion system in action, as water flows powerfully through the spillway and pipe ...

In its current form, the nation's electric grid largely doesn't store energy. The vast majority of electricity generated by ...

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus generating ...

BOYNE FALLS, MI — Can there be a private lake on a public river? Boyne Mountain is betting yes. Over the past few years, the Northern Michigan four-season resort has pressed ahead with a multi-phase ...

Hundreds of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – infrastructure ...

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 ...

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Water quality problems caused by six of Consumers Energy Co.'s 13 hydroelectric dams threaten to complicate the utility's controversial plan to sell the dams to a Maryland private equity company. The ...

NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County’s vision to have the Norristown Dam run on hydroelectric power has hit a snag as an existing contract was revised, requiring $400,000. The item was included in an ...

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three Gorges Dam actually did make the days longer, by slowing the rotation of the ...