In its current form, the nation's electric grid largely doesn't store energy. The vast majority of electricity generated by fossil fuels, hydropower, and other sources flows into the grid and is ...

Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change. Drought and age ...

LANSING, MI — Consumers Energy wants state regulators to approve a 30-year deal that would involve paying a private buyer twice the market rate for comparable hydropower in exchange for selling its ...

Consumers Energy is asking Michigan's energy regulators for approval to sell its suite of 13 dams to a Maryland energy investment firm and to enter into an agreement with the company to purchase the ...

LANSING, MI — Consumers Energy’s plan to sell 13 hydroelectric dams to a private equity-backed firm would allow the new owner resell or stop operating the dams without state approval, according to ...

China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the "project of the century." But the dam could also create a big problem for ...

A hydroelectric facility that first came online in 1903 stands as a testament to early 20th-century hydroelectric engineering. Although much of its original structure and machinery remains in service ...