Providing balanced information for using water as a renewable energy resource in the Northwest
By Frank Jordans Associated Press GENEVA — Global investment in renewable energy reached a record of $257 billion last year, with solar attracting more than half the total spending, according to a U.N. report released Monday. Investment in…
By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times Just as Washington makes an international splash for the largest dam removal ever in North America, a local utility is proposing to build a hydroelectric project on one of the last free-flowing…
By Christine Pratt Wenatchee World WENATCHEE — Would you like a little maple syrup to go with that sale of Chelan County PUD electricity? The PUD in June will begin selling power through a trading company owned by…
By David Lester Yakima Herald SELAH, Wash. — A Seattle startup is using a Valley irrigation canal to test a hydropower technology it hopes will have worldwide application. Hydrovolts Inc. has a permit from the U.S. Bureau of…
By Joel Aschbrenner Herald & News There’s bound to be plenty of politics involved with management of the Klamath River, because there are hundreds of millions of dollars involved. There are millions involved in infrastructure, millions involved in…
By Mike Dennison Missoulian HELENA – A spokesman for power-generator PPL Montana said Thursday it’s time for the state to admit defeat in its lengthy effort to collect rent from PPL for its hydropower dams and put an…
By HydroWorld.com/Hydro Review WASHINGTON, D.C. (PennWell) — The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned a Montana state Supreme Court decision that would have required energy provider PPL Montana to pay US$41 million in back rent for the use of…
By K.C. Mehaffey The Wenatchee World WENATCHEE — Several January storms that dumped snow in the mountains above North Central Washington helped bring the region back to a near-average snowpack, after a December with only half of the…
By BPA News Release Portland, Ore. – The Bonneville Power Administration today proposed compensating wind energy producers within its section of the grid for periodically reducing their output when necessary to keep the electricity supply from exceeding demand…
By Ted Sickinger The Oregonian A thin snowpack and predictions of low runoff this summer have the Bonneville Power Administration forecasting a financial loss for the year, and Northwest water watchers hoping for more snowy weather before the…