Providing balanced information for using water as a renewable energy resource in the Northwest
By: Christian Wihtol The Register Guard COTTAGE GROVE — Dreams of clean energy from a new hydroelectric plant on Dorena Dam have turned into a financial nightmare for the project owner and the plant’s general contractor, new legal…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review VANTAGE, Wash. – Mud, lots of mud, with a river flowing through it. Anja Reynolds gaped at an unfamiliar Columbia last week as her husband, Dave, and their three kids stretched their legs at…
By: The Associated Press The Register Guard BEND — Apple has acquired a hydroelectric project near the company’s new data center in Prineville. Data centers use lots of electricity to power thousands of computers that hold digital information….
By: Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press Pressure from the water behind Wanapum Dam may have contributed to the big crack that has disrupted operations at the structure, the Grant County Public Utility District said Wednesday. The cause of the…
By: Mike Rogoway The Oregonian Data centers are huge, hulking industrial operations – remote warehouses packed with thousands of computers. They use as much electricity as small cities to store our e-mails, photos and Facebook updates, and to…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review Northwest tribes and their Canadian counterparts are meeting in Spokane this week to discuss engineering solutions for getting salmon over Grand Coulee Dam. Returning chinook, sockeye and steelhead to the upper Columbia River is…
By: Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic VANTAGE — The boat ramp stretches out into mud, mud and more mud. Nearly 100 feet of mud now stands between the launch at Wanapum Recreational Area and the water. That’s what a…
By: Ted Sikinger The Oregonian A bill designed to shield Oregon’s renewable energy mandates from a potentially game-changing ballot measure sailed through the Senate’s Business and Transportation Committee Tuesday, even as opponents called it a back-room deal hatched…
By: Lacey Jarrell Herald and News A hydroelectric project that could generate enough electricity to power 600,000 homes is still on track for completion in 2020. The facility is slated for construction at the 5,200-acre Jespersen-Edgewood Ranch in…
By: Gosia Wozniacka Associated Press PORTLAND – A Seattle company is being given the green light to develop plans to build the West Coast’s first offshore wind energy farm – five floating turbines off Oregon’s Coos Bay, federal…