Panama’s Hydropower Development Defined By Fierce Resistance and Tough Choices
Rising electrical demand presents an opening for clean power, and new risks from fossil fuels.
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The Stream, February 2: Pakistan Invests in Solar Water Treatment to Bring Water to Desert
The Global Rundown Pakistan is using solar power to improve drinking water in its desert regions. The United Kingdom is banning fracking in a large area previously open to development, while groundwater pollution concerns are surfacing in California and Minnesota. China released a new rural policy for 2015, including plans for water infrastructure development. The […]
India Harvests Sun and Wind to Save Water and Power a Slowing Economy
In Rajasthan, renewables are a bright spot in a troubled national energy industry.
Report: U.S. EPA Has Chance to Vastly Reduce Water Pollution from Power Plants
EPA proposes tougher federal wastewater guidelines, while electricity generation turns from coal to gas. Photo courtesy of Brent Moore via Flickr Creative Commons A 2008 coal-ash pond failure at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee spilled 4.1 million cubic meters (5.4 million cubic yards) of wet coal ash into surrounding communities. While the EPA’s proposed […]
Economics and Water Concerns Alter the Solar Landscape in the US West
The falling price of photovoltaic panels and public concerns about aquifers and rivers in the western United States are boosting solar energy technologies that save water. In December, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) approved a 300-megawatt (MW) solar energy project on public land in southwestern Arizona on condition that the developer changes the […]
Visions of Solar Energy’s Future Compete in Colorado’s San Luis Valley
The U.S. government is in the process of designating more than 6,000 hectacres of federal land for solar energy development. As companies line up to submit projects, some valley residents are questioning the centralized model of energy generation and are, instead, trying to shape an independent energy future.
Report: Thirsty Power Plants Increase U.S. Water Stress
Water-energy choke points in Texas serve as examples of a larger issue for the United States, as pointed out in a new report for the Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative, spearheaded by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The Stream, November 17: Water Use in U.S. Power Plants
Coal-fired plants account for 67 percent of the freshwater withdrawals by the power sector in the United States and for 65 percent of the sector’s water consumption, according to a new report from the Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative that probes the freshwater use by U.S. power facilities. Contributors to President Barack […]
Surge of New Dams in Southwest China Produces Power and Public Ire
Water-rich region, though, is getting dryer.
New Wind and Solar Sectors Won’t Solve China’s Water Scarcity
Clean alternatives help, but not nearly enough, to loosen energy-water choke point
US Government Approves World’s Largest Solar Project
The Blythe solar plant is the sixth on public lands to get federal approval this month.
Chinese Power Plant Develops Advanced Coal Technology
China attempts to move forward with its clean energy ambitions.
