All posts by: Rahul Rao

Tomorrow's Hydropower Begins With Retrofitting Today's Dams

With wind and solar prices dropping, it can be easy to forget that two-thirds of the globe’s renewable energy comes from hydropower. But hydro’s future is muddled with ghostly costs—and sometimes dubious environmental consequences.   Most dams weren’t, in fact, actually built for hydropower. They help stop floods and supply farms and families with water, but […]