How FERC Is Streamlining Hydropower Licensing

By Mary Anne Sullivan and Zachary Launer (November 17, 2017, 1:17 PM EST) -- According to the Energy Information Administration, hydro power provides more than 40 percent of U.S. renewable energy electricity generated in the United States, but it is down from its high point in the 1990s.[1] This is so even though a study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2012 concluded that 12,000 megawatts of additional hydropower could be added to the U.S. generation mix by powering some of the 80,000 already constructed but nonpowered dams.[2]...

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