Hydropower is a great source of energy that doesn’t suffer the same intermittency problems as other renewables. But dams fail. A lot. About 95% of the existing hydropower systems in the States were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hydropower projects frequently face resistance from environmental groups for a variety of reasons. One of the more common objections to hydro is the high turbine-induced mortality of fish. The passage ...

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 ...

The region has a major hydro potential, and at the same time a shortage of power generation ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. /TASS/. Buryatia entered an agreement on a local power system of small ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Austrian power generators are well positioned to withstand the loss of pipeline gas supplies from Russia thanks to record wind power output alongside the ...