Hydroelectricity

The Alaska Energy Authority has submitted a plan for two years of environmental work on the proposed multi-billion dollar Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project. The AEA on Friday formally submitted its Revised Study Plan to the Federal Energy Regulatory...

Juneau's electric utility company has completed another barrier designed to protect power lines from avalanches. Alaska Electric Light and Power says work is finished on a second avalanche splitter that will divert snow around power line towers. Large...

Alaska Electric Light and Power switched back to electric power from diesel generators Saturday, after repairing a fallen transmission tower that had cut all power from a hydroelectric project that supplies 70 percent of the utility's power. Utility...

A multi-billion dollar hydroelectric dam may be up and running by 2022 if the Susitna Project moves forward. The project would cost $4.5 billion, but Alaskan officials say it would bring long term benefits with expectations that the dam could operate for...

A good bill to get more clean energy into Connecticut has been held up in the House. That's too bad. The House should pass the bill, which has already passed the Senate. It would likely lower Connecticut's sky-high electric rates while decreasing the...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50% in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women'...

Legislation that would let two old dams on the Farmington River be used for hydropower got a boost on Thursday when a committee of the U.S. Senate endorsed the idea. The Senate's energy and natural resources committee voted in favor of a bill that...

A Colorado firm has begun applying for permits to study the feasibility of a hydroelectric facility on the Lehigh River in Allentown. In February, Hamilton Street Hydro LLC of Boulder, Colo. submitted an application to the U.S. Federal Energy...

Proposition 13 loophole: An article in the May 5 Section A about a loophole in Proposition 13 thatenables businesses to sidestep a tax reassessment examined the purchase of a Santa Monica hotel company by Michael Dell and partners. The article said that...

Appalachian Power says the rain-swollen Roanoke River has damaged a boat barrier upstream from the company's Niagara hydroelectric dam in Roanoke County. Spokesman Todd Burns told the Roanoke Times the company hopes to have the barrier repaired as...

KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River's most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast....