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Hydropower

July 2024

  • The Tantangara dam Snowy 2.0 site

    Snowy 3.0? Experts say Australia has ‘so many good sites’ for more pumped hydro

    Such schemes have their critics but the technology, which has been known for a century, could help many nations reach net zero

June 2024

  • William Armstrong’s Cragside home, pictured from below

    Weatherwatch
    William Armstrong: Victorian who built first hydroelectric-powered house

    Visionary engineer predicted problems with fossil fuels and advocated renewable power generation
  • A large dam near green hills.

    US admits dams in Pacific north-west have devastated Native Americans

    US says dams killed off salmon, inundated villages and burial grounds, and spirited wealth away from tribes
  • SUSTAINABLE THE PAPIERI, ZURICH - Andri Mengiardi and Martina Isler

    Switched on: a Swiss apartment with its own hydro plant

    Once part of a paper mill, this flat on the banks of Lake Zug has turned over a new leaf

April 2024

  • Berta Zuñiga Caceres (33), in front of a mural dedicated to her mother Berta Caceres, the murdered environmentalist. In the courtyard of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras. 14.02.2024

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Eight years after Berta Cáceres’ murder is there new hope for justice?

    The Honduran Indigenous and environmental leader was shot in 2016 for her opposition to an internationally financed dam, but despite violence and threats, the net is closing on the murder’s alleged ‘mastermind’

March 2024

  • Aerial photograph Llyn Peris, Electric Mountain and Slate quarry, Llanberis, Snowdonia<br>EGFP1T Aerial photograph Llyn Peris, Electric Mountain and Slate quarry, Llanberis, Snowdonia

    The Audio Long Read
    Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure – podcast

    Utilitarian as they may be, some civic projects are so monumental they approach the sublime. And one of the most elegant is hidden inside a mountain in Wales. By Deb Chachra

February 2024

  • The view downstream towards the surge chamber of the Guthega Tunnel at Guthega Power Station, at the confluence of the Munyang River and the Snowy River, in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia, 5th January 1955. The power station is the first of the initial seven hydroelectric power stations that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme. (Photo by Snowy Mountains Hydro-electricity Authority/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Men risked their lives to work on the Snowy Hydro scheme. Now, 75 years on, the 2.0 project represents a different world

  • Workers looking over a ring around the Florence boring machine

    Snowy Hydro’s 2.0 fortunes might finally be turning as drilling gets back on track

January 2024

  • Juan Alonso crying over his father's grave

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly

    Sebastián Alonzo is one of 1,335 land defenders killed in Latin America, since 2012. His community in Guatemala continues to fight water expropriation

December 2023

  • The Pintado wind farm in Florida, Uruguay.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done

    Stung by 2008’s oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit?

November 2023

  • A river running in a gorge between forested mountains

    The age of extinction
    It’s one of Europe’s last pristine rivers. Can scientists save it from 50 dams?

  • Elidir Fawr in north Wales, inside of which sits Dinorwig power station, AKA Electric Mountain.

    The long read
    Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure

August 2023

  • The Tantangara dam Snowy Hydro 2.0 site, where a tunnel boring machine hit soft ground in 2022 and was unable to continue.TBM Florence has tunnelled only 150 metres and is at a depth of 30 metres.A sinkhole has appeared in the ground above Florence, which has halted tunneling operations at this site in the Snowy Mountains. Tuesday 30th May 2023. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Story on the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme by Peter Hannam. Guardian Australia.

    Snowy Hydro 2.0 eyes return to tunnelling after delays and cost blowouts

  • Snowy 2.0 concrete tunnel liners stored at their production factory

    Snowy Hydro 2.0 costs blowout confirmed to be almost $13bn

June 2023

  • The Tantangara Dam Snowy 2.0 site in the Snowy Mountains

    $5.9bn and rising: Snowy 2.0 wrestles with delays and budget blowouts

    Much is riding on its success – not least the decarbonisation of the electricity grid – but critics say an independent review is desperately needed
  • A semi-trailer passes the site of a fatal truck crash along the Cooma-Adaminaby road on the Snowy Mountains Highway.

    Snowy Hydro looks to resume boring within weeks pending environmental approvals

    Proposed changes include a slurry plant to help dig through soft rock, as National Parks Association says ‘enormous damage’ caused already

    • Concern over Loch Ness low water levels amid UK dry spell

    • Thousands flee homes as collapse of dam is blamed on Russian forces

    • Explosives equipment missing from massive Snowy Hydro work site

May 2023

  • Solar panels.

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: power prices dip to negative in Europe amid clean energy boost

    Low demand combined with sunny conditions and meltwater lifts hydro and solar production
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