Energy Source Wind farms and hydroelectric dams stand as giants in the realm of renewable energy, each harnessing natural ...

Experts are warning that Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ...

It's now one 31 federal dams whose hydropower is marketed by BPA. The Bonneville Power Administration was born out of the New Deal, an era of large-scale public works projects that created ...

Wind power now claims the top spot on America's clean energy ladder. Turbines have overtaken hydropower dams as the largest single source of U.S. renewable electric capacity for the first time ...

The report has been criticized by groups that worry the dams will result in the collapse of endangered Atlantic salmon and sturgeon populations.

This whole exercise would be ludicrous if it weren’t so serious,” said Randy Hardy, who headed BPA in the 1990s. “Cuts to ...

Federal regulators are recommending that four Kennebec River dams receive new licenses, with some additional requirements to enhance endangered fish passage that go beyond what the dams' operator had ...

JACKSON, MI — Consumers Energy says it may take months longer than expected to decide whether to sell, remove or relicense its Michigan hydroelectric dams. Consumers spokesperson Brian Wheeler ...

The 726-foot-high arch-gravity dam stretches 1,244 feet across the Black Canyon and was built over five years starting in 1931, helping provide water and hydroelectrical power to the West.