A hydroelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing the kinetic energy of running water. Now you can not only find stationary larger-scale hydroelectric generators but also portable micro ...

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as ...

The Canadian utility British Columbia Hydro and Authority (BC Hydro) is to increase the output at its hydroelectric power plant in British Colombia after it awarded Alstom a €30m ($37m) contract. 31 ...

Developments at Verso Corp. — with more than a year of shutdowns, layoffs and a precipitous stock drop in September, resulting in suspension of trading by the New York Stock Exchange — continue with ...

A proposed hydro power electricity generator on the River Avon in Stratford could create an estimated 350 megawatts per year.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to help people get power when they needed it," said an inventor from Sterling, Conn. "This inspired me to invent a device that transforms the motion ...

Easton officials are raising concerns about a Massachusetts company’s proposal to install a hydroelectric power generator fed by the Lehigh Canal. The city solicitor, Joel Scheer, told the city ...

Automaker Henry Ford arrived in Hamilton one century ago this month, thanks to some forward-thinking businessmen seven decades earlier, and the ability of the Great Miami River to produce electricity.

When the subjects of energy efficiency or the green economy are discussed, solar and wind power dominate the discussion. But hydropower, which has been employed in Massachusetts for 300 years, tends ...

Power generation is based on the 1831 discovery by Michael Faraday, which showed that moving a magnet within a coil of wire can generate an electric current. Generators are based on the connection ...