Hydropower

Great River Hydro has eight facilities on the Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont.

Central Maine Power's parent company and Hydro Quebec teamed up on the project that would supply up to 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower. That's enough electricity for 1 million homes.

More than two dozen communities are taking advantage of a higher net metering cap, according to the Department of Energy.

A new bill from New Hampshire Congresswoman Annie Kuster would invest billions of dollars in the U.S.’s aging hydropower dam system. The bipartisan plan…

A final plan is out to relicense three major hydropower dams on the Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont – a big milestone in a years-long…

The recent defeat of Northern Pass was a major setback for the import of large-scale hydropower into the region. Meanwhile, efforts to build more solar…

A first-of-its-kind survey shows New Hampshire residents generally favor removing dams from local rivers.Researchers from UNH asked 1,500 residents about…

A group of residents in Keene has scrapped plans to build a hydropower facility on an old dam near downtown.The city will now go back to the drawing board…

A major study of the Connecticut River shows how its flow and ecosystem has been altered by dozens of dams.The nonprofit Nature Conservancy worked with…

Right now, a group of hydroelectric dams on the Connecticut River are undergoing a once-in-a-generation process – a federal relicensing. NHPR’s Annie…