The first time 52-year-old Juliana Balweg-Baawa switched on the light in her home, she jumped for joy. “My children can study at night!” Balweg-Baawa, a native of Mataragan village in the rugged ...

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The Women-Centric Toolkit for Small-Scale Hydropower, known as WEco, was co-created with community partners in the Philippines ...

The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011 (S. 629) was introduced last week by Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and co-sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). The ...

RANAU: In a hill village outside Ranau, the first flicker from a micro-hydro switch turned darkness into possibility and a community into its own power station. It didn’t start with a grand plan. In ...

The Scott Hydro 1500W Water Turbine is a new innovative answer to converting running water into electricity. This micro-hydro turbine is designed as a dependable energy source that creates electricity ...