Hydropower
A dry January and February are clouding the prospects for hydroelectric generation this summer following two years of severe drought in California.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed that the nation’s hydropower is undervalued in power markets and under-incentivized in federal policymaking.
With Northeast states backing out of joining TCI-P, states now have a major funding gap for their plans to clean up the transportation sector.
CAISO intends in 2022 to focus on long-term transmission planning, interconnecting storage and extending the real-time Western EIM to a day-ahead market.
Hawaii's PUC approved construction of the West Kauai Energy Project, a pumped storage hydropower project designed to produce 110 GWh of annual output.
A.Levasseur, S.Mercier-Blais, Y.T.Prairie, A.Tremblay, C.Turpin, CC BY-SA-4.0
A university researcher says an RTO Insider article ignored research showing Canadian hydropower is one of the lowest-emission energy sources available.
Mwanner, CC BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia
FERC threatened to fine the former operator of a New York hydro project for failing to complete safety repairs before losing its rights to the dam.
First Nation members held a webinar to explain their opposition to a new transmission line to bring Hydro-Québec’s electricity to New England.
Washington’s first pumped storage generator is expected to go online between 2028 and 2030, if it can obtain the needed state and federal approvals.
Western drought has caused historically low water levels at hydropower facilities, including Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam and PG&E's major reservoirs.
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