A retired Canadian engineer has developed a river-powered water wheel that can generate up to 36 kWh per day under stable ...

Voith Hydro in 2022 replaced four vertical Pelton turbines at Verbund’s 75-year-old 326-GWh Gerlos 1 hydropower facility in Austria with a first-of-its-kind horizontal six-nozzle Pelton turbine.

This is the third in a series of posts about how system-scale perspectives are vital to the planning and development of sustainable power systems, including hydropower. This post will focus on how ...

Idaho National Laboratory demonstrated its revolutionary “Microgrid in a Box” technology July 20 with Fall River Electric Cooperative at the Felt Hydroelectric Plant on the Teton River. The exercise ...

As the gates leading from Sam Rayburn Lake open, the water rushes towards the Kaplan turbines some 100’ below. The river begins to rise and swell below the dam as the ground below your feet vibrates ...

Hydropower provides a vast majority of Kentucky's renewable electricity generation, and many unused dams could offer an opportunity for more. Unlike other technologies like solar and wind, hydropower ...