The allure of clean energy is powerful, but for countries sharing rivers, hydropower can come with a range of hidden costs.

Reliable, cheap and low carbon — since coming into use over a hundred years ago, hydropower has become a vital clean energy source, today providing more electricity than all other renewables combined. But recent power shortages in Ecuador and Colombia have highlighted its vulnerability in the face ...

Medog Hydropower Station, as it will be called, will blow other hydropower dams out of the water (pun intended), with an estimated annual generation capacity triple that of the world’s largest existing dam (which, perhaps unsurprisingly, is also in China).

Hydropower is the world’s most widely used form of renewable energy, propelling development in South America, parts of China and India, and much of sub-Saharan Africa. But over the past two ...

The News Beijing approved the construction of the world’s biggest hydropower dam despite public outcry from residents near the site. Once completed, the dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet ...

Hydropower is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, generating more power in 2022 than all other renewables combined.

A huge network of dams along China’s longest river has the potential to generate enough hydropower for a quarter of the country’s output—but not without logistical challenges and geological ...

The DR Congo is planning to build a massive dam delivering power to millions of people - but it is not easy.

China is planning to build the largest hydropower dam in the world but there are worries about downstream water supplies.

Recent droughts in Colombia and Ecuador have severely hampered energy supplied by hydropower. How viable is the low-carbon renewable in an increasingly hot and dry world?