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Early this century, the Vernon Station hydropower dam on the Connecticut River generated an average of 135,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In 2008, nearly a century after the Vermont dam was first ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Federal regulators have granted Native ...

New exclusions could accelerate approvals for maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement of facilities at FERC-licensed hydropower projects In a decision notable enough to merit a novel docket ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. has a long record of extracting resources on Native lands and ignoring tribal opposition, but a decision by federal ...

Construction in Maine will resume next week on an electricity transmission project bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid despite a half-billion dollar cost increase, the head of ...

Dug In: Leftover mining infrastructure at the abandoned Eagle Mountain iron mine. As Eagle Crest Energy awaits what it hopes will be final governmental approval for its proposed $2 billion hydropower ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass. - The tide is turning in favor of hydropower. The recent acquisition by Agilitas Energy of the 30-megawatt Tygart Hydropower Project in Grafton, West Virginia, and the 14-megawatt ...

Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce ...