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Thursday, April 19, 2012

DOE: 12 GW LIES UNEXPLOITED IN NON-POWERED DAMS ACROSS U.S.

DOE: 12 GW LIES UNEXPLOITED IN NON-POWERED DAMS ACROSS U.S.
More than 2,500 dams in the U.S. provide 78 GW of conventional and 22 GW of pumped-storage hydropower. But the nation also has more than 80,000 dams that do not produce electricity—facilities that, if outfitted with hydroelectric power plants, could generate an estimated 12 GW and increase existing U.S. conventional hydropower capacity by roughly 15%, the Department of Energy (DOE) says in a new report, Read More »

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