Image courtesy of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan The government of Uzbekistan has outlined plans to expand its hydropower sector as part of efforts to diversify electricity generation and ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to resume negotiations to distribute nearly $430m in funding to hydropower facilities across the US, as part of efforts to modernise the country’s ...

SSE has submitted a planning application to convert the Sloy Power Station into a new pumped storage scheme According to the British Hydropower Association (BHA), although the UK hasn’t witnessed new ...

India had decided to set up a run-of-river, 450MW hydroelectric plant at Baglihar in its Jammu & Kashmir State, utilizing the waters of river Chenab, a tributary of the mighty Indus. Since the time ...

A prominent figure in hydropower, Dr. Denis Aelbrecht serves as Head of Technology at EDF Hydro Engineering Center and President of CFBR. With expertise in design, maintenance, and risk management, he ...

Puget Sound Energy’s Snoqualmie Falls project, located in the foothills of the Cascades Range east of Seattle, Washington, features the world’s first hydropower plant built completely underground.

(Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District/ Flickr) Similar to other major infrastructure projects, the design life-span of the dam body is given as a time-span varying between the ...

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE has developed an underwater energy storage system, that transfers the principle of pumped storage power plants to ...

Santo Antonio hydroelectric project on the Madeira River in Brazil. Hydropower operations were halted temporarily in 2023 due to low reservoir levels caused by ...

What are the main challenges in hydropower management that AI and machine learning help address? That’s an important question, and to answer it, we first need to demystify what AI really is. Many ...

Water flowing from the eroded overflow spillway of Oroville Dam, California on 11 February 2017. Image by William Croyle, California Department of Water Resources. Advanced monitoring systems that ...

Completion of the 2080MW Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in 1935 was a significant moment in the history of dam building in the US. Some say that it was a tipping point that fired the imagination of ...