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hydropower


The Big Picture: A U.S. Hydropower Profile (Infographic)

The U.S. conventional hydropower fleet includes 2,252 hydropower plants with a total generating capacity of 80.58 GW, which produced 6.2% of the country’s electricity in 2022 and nearly 30% of all…


POWER Digest [December 2023]

News briefs curated by POWER’s editors curated for our December 2023 issue. Kenya Set to Expand Hydropower Project Kenya Electricity Generating Co. (KenGen) said it received approval from government officials…


Cambodia Cancels Coal Plant in Favor of Gas-Fired Facility

A Cambodian energy official said the country no longer plans to build a coal-fired power plant along the nation’s southwest coast, and will instead move forward with a natural gas-fired…


5 Things You Didn’t Know About Hydropower
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For many years, the National Hydropower Association has designated August 24 as National Hydropower Day in the U.S. In honor of the occasion, POWER is highlighting a variety of things…


Marnie Surfaceblow (Fiction): Marnie and Maya and the Case of the Strangled Boiler

Long-time POWER readers may remember Marmaduke Surfaceblow, a fictional character whose engineering escapades were brilliantly portrayed in hundreds of stories published within POWER magazine’s pages over more than 30 years…