The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has completed a series of drifting acoustic surveys around Orbital Marine Power’s O2 tidal turbine at the Fall of Warness site in Orkney. The surveys, carried ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is the largest hydropower project in Africa. Located on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, about 14km from the Sudanese border, the ...

UK-based energy storage developer RheEnergise has brought its first High-Density Hydro® (HD Hydro) energy storage project into full power operation at Cornwood, near Plymouth in Devon. The company ...

Inside view of the Ohsawagawa hydropower station in Japan. Photo by Voith Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been described as an important driving force bringing about unprecedented changes to dam ...

Fish ladders aid salmon on their upstream migration at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in Oregon, US. Editorial credit: steve estvanik / Shutterstock.com After ten years of rapidly ...

Drawing on insights from Global Data’s UK Power Market Outlook to 2035 (Update 2025) report, this feature examines the evolving role of hydropower in the British grid. While conventional generation ...

Learning from their experiences across the UK and Spain, representatives from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Spanish Council of Civil Engineers recently discussed how resilience can ...

Construction has started on a sixth generating unit at BC Hydro’s Revelstoke Generating Station in British Columbia, the first and largest project in a programme of upgrades intended to add more than ...

From climate-driven droughts in the Andes to AI-powered energy ambitions in Paraguay, South America’s hydropower sector is entering a period of rapid transformation. While hydro remains the backbone ...

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 ...

The US Bureau of Reclamation will invest approximately US$52m in infrastructure, operations and maintenance projects at Hoover Dam, including the replacement of up to three ageing turbines with ...

The hydropower projects scheduled to reach completion or commissioning in 2026 highlight how the sector’s priorities have evolved. Pumped storage schemes are entering service to support power system ...