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By, Northwest Part of Energy Department $10 Million Funding for Full-Scale Wave Energy Device Testing The Energy Department, in coordination with the Navy, today announced funding for two companies that will continue to advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK)…
By Energy Department Making Hydropower More Eco-Friendly Hydropower has long provided a flexible, low-cost, and renewable source of power for the United States—since the 1800s, in fact. Even today, in fact, hydropower accounted for roughly half of the nation’s…
By Mark Freeman Register-Guard The federal government has pulled the plug on a utility company’s more than decade-long effort to build a hydropower generation system at Applegate Dam, saying the company’s work window has expired. The license holder,…
By Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review White sturgeon in the Kootenai River can live for decades and grow to lengths of 8 feet. The bottom-dwelling fish share the river’s rocky depths with burbot, a pugnacious, freshwater cod. On Thursday,…
By Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review On a fall afternoon, the Clark Fork Delta is a place of astonishing beauty. Yellow-green grasses glow against the denim-blue of the Clark Fork River as it empties into Lake Pend Oreille. Each…
Pend Oreille PUD Newsletter Fall, 2014 Andritz Hydro, the contractor for the turbine/generator upgrade lowered the fourth and final turbine runner into the turbine pit on September 15th. Upgrade of this final turbine/generator unit is scheduled for completion…