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 ...

Hengbung, a remote village in Manipur, has a first-of-its-kind utility worth replicating elsewhere too — a micro solar pumped storage facility supplying 24x7 power to 50 households. Today, large-scale ...

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

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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 ...

Tonibung’s compound In Kampung Nampasan, nestled in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah, looks like a typical engineering workshop – with metal frames and bars stacked neatly to one side and bags of ...

Rooftops with arrays of tiny wind-powered microturbines and hydro microturbines generating power as water flows through municipal drinking water systems or the outflow of municipal sewage treatment ...