Sprawled like a gigantic swimming pool atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an asphalt-and-clay pond holding enough water to produce electricity for 1.6 million households.

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Decades before the construction of Wisconsin's first coal-fired generator, an engineer named Magnus Swenson and his partners had begun harnassing the power of the Wisconsin River behind a wall of concrete.

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Renewable energy is growing fast around the world and will edge out natural gas as the second biggest source of electricity, after coal, by 2016, according to a five-year outlook published Wednesday by the International Energy Agency.

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The Army Corps of Engineers has turned back requests by federal lawmakers and the barge industry to release more water from the Missouri River, believing the drought-starved Mississippi River it feeds still will remain open to shipping despite mounting concerns about water levels.

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A hydroelectric company is abandoning plans for five plants on the Upper Mississippi River.

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Three years ago, Ted Christopher moved to San Diego to work in the sheet-metal shop of his cousin and to spend his nights and weekends tinkering on a project he thinks could transform the water currents of rivers into energy.

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Shannon Dininny AP Writer Bridgeport, WA — Workers are preparing to install a new 45-ton turbine at the second-largest hydropower producing dam in the United States, part of a multiyear upgrade that will generate power for an additional 30,000 Northwest ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] A proposed hydropower project on the Mississippi River is inspiring a state lawmaker to reconsider his dismissal of water as a likely source of renewable energy. “I think a lot of people just put (hydropower) out of ...

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