New hydropower plants are expensive and difficult to build. Drax, the FTSE 250 energy company, earlier this month paused ...

Scientists have simulated the addition of floating solar panels to Switzerland’s Etzelwerk, an open-loop pumped-storage hydropower plant. Using 10% of the upper reservoir for the solar panels, the ...

First Hydro Company is preparing major refurbishments at the 1,728MW Dinorwig pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) facility.

Hydropower is gaining greater recognition for the important role it can play, as the global power industry recognises pumped ...

Africa’s on-river hydro potential remains untapped. To double capacity by 2050, investment of around $3.7 trillion is ...

ENGIE and Canadian investor CDPQ will invest up to £1 billion in refurbishing two major pumped storage hydro plants in the UK ...

To leverage hydropower as fuel for EV growth, the U.S. needs to maintain existing hydropower plants while also building new ...

Refurbishment programme aims to extend life of Dinorwig and Ffestiniog plants that provide around three quarters of the UK ...

Based in North Wales, Dinorwig and Ffestiniog offer rapid-response flexibility to balance the grid when intermittent ...

For years, water has rushed through Dinorwig’s subterranean tunnels to drive vast power turbines, but the channels currently ...

Buyende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Energy has signed a services contract with a Korean firm which will ...

In an era of growing renewable energy generation and fluctuating electricity demands, a pumped-storage hydropower plant in ...