This story appeared first in WFAE's weekly climate newsletter, which is out Thursdays. Sign up at WFAE.org/newsletters. Duke Energy recently celebrated a big birthday ...

Tom Baird, a former NRC chair and former President of Anglers of the Au Sable, said during the presentation that the dams would fall into further disrepair under private equity ownership because ...

LANSING, MI — Michigan’s top natural resources official warned that the proposed sale of Consumers Energy hydroelectric dams ...

Consumers Energy is getting out of the hydroelectric business and will sell all of its dams in Michigan the utility company announced on Tuesday. The decision came after years of deliberating, ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced two separate programs that together will award nearly $600 million to fund hydroelectric power and advance marine energy. The DOE will award ...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (WEAU) - A project is underway to secure the infrastructure of a dam in Dunn County. This comes as a partial failure occurred at a dam in South Minnesota Monday, causing major erosion ...

Hydropower was long the country’s leading source of renewable energy, but it was passed in 2019 by wind and in 2025 by utility-scale solar. It’s still significant, though, with 5.6 percent of U.S.

As part of an application the City of Aspen intends to file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to maintain operations at Maroon Creek hydroelectric plant, the city is proposing the addition ...

For 70 summers, Phil Zigulich's family has been swimming, fishing and boating on the waters of Lake Allegan in southwest Michigan. It's a lifelong relationship with the water that's been made possible ...

As the world moves towards renewable energy sources in pursuit of decarbonization, one of the principal methods being implemented is hydropower. The ability to generate electrical power using falling ...

In Washington, a dozen dams dot the Columbia River — that mighty waterway carved through the state by a sequence of prehistoric superfloods. Between those dams and the hundreds of others that plug the ...

Queensland Hydro said geotechnical exploratory drilling which will help inform the environmental impact statement (EIS) process has started at the site of the Borumba Dam pumped hydro project. The AUD ...