A look behind the scenes of reporting on how Kentucky pulls power from its rivers, and the industry's vision for more.

The Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River east of Portland. Washington and Oregon produce more than one-third of the nation’s hydropower. Amelia Templeton / OPB Hydropower generated for electricity ...

National Hydropower Day recognizes the powerful, longstanding invention that has provided Americans energy for ever a century. Work at Argonne National Laboratory looks to the next century of this ...

Authors give opinion on the complex relationship which exists between hydropower development and downstream flood risk ...

Water flows out of the Bonneville Dam along the Columbia River between Multnomah County, Oregon and Skamania County, Washington. on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle) After ...

Anna Lueck / OPB Persistent drought in the West over the last two decades has limited the amount of electricity that hydropower dams can generate, costing the industry and the region billions of ...

Solar and wind are ahead of coal in the US power mix, generating nearly 20% more power in the first seven months of 2025, ...

The Lower Monumental Dam is on the Snake River in Washington state. (Getty Images) Hydropower generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and ...

Hydropower generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and experts expect it could drop further by year’s end. Officials at the U.S. Energy ...