Japan’s Ricoh has designed a micro hydropower system for sewage plants that could potentially be used in combination with ground-mounted solar or floating PV. The system features a sustainable water ...

The Women-Centric Toolkit for Small-Scale Hydropower, known as WEco, was co-created with community partners in the ...

The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011 (S. 629) was introduced last week by Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and co-sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). The ...

The archipelagic country of Indonesia, which is blessed with abundant resources, has again set a record in renewable energy. Energy generation from micro hydropower plants has begun with the help of ...

THE government has committed to provide electricity to the entire population by 2007. Out of a total of around 130,000 villages, 99,600 were electrified at the end of March 2006. There are still ...

The first time 52-year-old Juliana Balweg-Baawa switched on the light in her home, she jumped for joy. “My children can study at night!” Balweg-Baawa, a native of Mataragan village in the rugged ...

RANAU: In a hill village outside Ranau, the first flicker from a micro-hydro switch turned darkness into possibility and a community into its own power station. It didn’t start with a grand plan. In ...

It was great to read about the creative problem-solving the Skagit Public Utility District used in installing a micro-hydro power system to harness the power of water pressure which, instead of being ...