Hydroelectricity
Electricity generated by hydropower
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| January 30 2025 | The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously approved Southern California Edison's request to raise rates to cover $1.6 billion in Thomas Fire victim payments, despite opposition from residents and state legislators. |
| January 16 2025 | The family of a fire victim filed a wrongful death lawsuit against SCE, claiming negligence in failing to deactivate utilities during a red flag warning with dangerous Santa Ana winds. |
| January 16 2025 | DTE Gas and DTE Electric received $8.81 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the US Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office for renewable energy generation and storage projects. |
| January 2025 | The Eaton Fire burned in the Eaton Canyon of the San Gabriel Mountains, spreading into Altadena and nearby foothill communities. The wildfire killed 17 people and destroyed over 9,000 buildings, becoming the second most destructive wildfire in California history. |
| January 13 2025 | Four lawsuits were filed against Southern California Edison (SCE), alleging violations of public safety and utility codes, and negligence in handling power safety shut-offs. |
| 2024 | Ameren decided to close the Rush Island coal plant 15 years ahead of schedule, instead of installing required pollution control technology. |
| 2024 | Gazar et al. published research analyzing causal relationships between cross-border transmission capacity, hydroelectric generation, and energy demand in northeastern North America using Bayesian network analysis. |
| December 2024 | Newfoundland premier Andrew Furey and Quebec premier François Legault signed a 50-year Memorandum of Understanding to terminate the original Churchill Falls electricity contract, potentially raising rates by 2,850%. |
| December 2024 | Department of Energy offers PG&E a $15 billion loan to expand hydropower generation, upgrade transmission capacity, and enable virtual power plants. |
| March 1 2024 | PPL Corporation announced a tentative $9 million agreement to sell its long-standing 2 North Ninth St. Tower Building and office complex to Pennsylvania-based developer D&D Realty Group, marking the end of its century-long headquarters location. |
| 2023 | Sierra Club report identified Labadie Energy Center as one of the 17 deadliest coal plants in the US, calling on the EPA to regulate harmful emissions affecting neighboring communities. |
| 2023 | Hydro-Québec paid 2.47 billion dollars in dividends to its sole shareholder, the Government of Quebec, demonstrating its financial strength and contribution to provincial revenue. |
| 2023 | Energy sold by Hydro-Québec was almost exclusively from renewable sources, with hydro power accounting for 98.53% of total energy generation. |
| 2023 | Hydropower supplied 15% of the world's electricity, generating almost 4,210 TWh, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and more than nuclear power. |
| August 1 2023 | Michael Sabia becomes the sixteenth president of Hydro-Québec. |
| June 1 2023 | Brian X. Tierney officially became president and CEO of FirstEnergy Corp., replacing John Somerhalder as interim CEO. |
| May 2023 | FirstEnergy consolidated operations by vacating their longtime headquarters in Downtown Akron and Brecksville offices, moving to their West Akron campus. |
| April 13 2023 | The Cleveland Browns and FirstEnergy immediately terminated their naming rights agreement, returning the stadium to its original name of Cleveland Browns Stadium. |
| March 27 2023 | FirstEnergy Corp. announced Brian X. Tierney as its new president and CEO, effective June 1, 2023. |
| 2022 | PPL Corporation acquires Rhode Island Energy, formerly a regional business of Narragansett Electric Company, from National Grid, expanding its utility business portfolio. |
| 2022 | Acquired Great River Hydro, LLC through its US subsidiary HQI US Holding for US$2.2 billion. |
| 2022 | Commissioned the Romaine-4 powerhouse with 245 MW capacity. |
| 2022 | Hydroelectricity generated 4,289 TWh globally, representing 15% of total electricity production and half of renewable energy sources. |
| 2022 | China led global hydroelectricity production, contributing 30% of the world's total hydroelectric generation. |
| 2022 | Paraguay uniquely produced nearly all of its electricity from hydropower, with the capability to export significantly more electricity than it consumes internally. |
| 2022 | The IEA released a main-case forecast predicting 141 GW generated by hydropower over 2022–2027, which is slightly lower than the deployment achieved from 2017–2022. |
| 2022 | Europe added 2 GW of hydropower capacity, the largest amount for the region since 1990. |
| 2022 | China added 24 GW of hydropower capacity, accounting for nearly three-quarters of global hydropower capacity additions. |
| 2022 | Global hydropower generation increased by 70 TWh (up 2%), remaining the largest renewable energy source. |
| 2022 | Exelon continued its political contributions, maintaining its PAC funding pattern, and spent $2,878,000 on lobbying efforts. |
| September 17 2022 | John Somerhalder began serving as interim CEO of FirstEnergy. |
| September 16 2022 | Steven E. Strah decided to retire from his role as acting CEO. |
| June 2022 | Cleveland city council passed a resolution urging FirstEnergy to relinquish its naming rights to FirstEnergy Stadium. |
| May 25 2022 | The sale of the Narragansett Electric Company was completed, and it was renamed Rhode Island Energy. |
| February 2 2022 | Exelon completed the corporate spin-off of Constellation Energy, which became the largest operator of nuclear power plants in the United States and the largest non-governmental nuclear power plant operator globally. |
| January 2022 | PG&E scheduled a final cash payment to complete its settlement obligations to wildfire victims. |
| January 4 2022 | CalFire officially determined that the Dixie Fire was caused by a tree contacting PG&E's electrical distribution lines located west of Cresta Dam. The investigative report was forwarded to the Butte County District Attorney's office, which had previously prosecuted PG&E in 2018 for the Camp Fire. |
| 2021 | The International Energy Agency (IEA) recommended that government energy policy should 'price in the value of the multiple public benefits provided by hydropower plants'. |
| 2021 | The International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a call for robust sustainability standards in hydropower development, recommending streamlined rules and regulations to improve the industry's environmental and social practices. |
| 2021 | The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that existing conventional hydropower plant reservoirs can store a total of 1,500 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electrical energy in one full cycle, which was approximately 170 times more energy than the global fleet of pumped storage hydropower plants. |
| 2021 | Pumped-storage hydroelectricity schemes provided almost 85% of the world's 190 GW of grid energy storage, significantly improving the daily capacity factor of global electricity generation systems. |
| 2021 | The International Energy Agency (IEA) highlighted the need for more efforts to help limit climate change and emphasized that major modernisation refurbishments are required for hydropower infrastructure. |
| 2021 | Global installed hydropower electrical capacity reached almost 1,400 GW, the highest among all renewable energy technologies. |
| 2021 | Exelon contributed $323,500 to federal candidates through its political action committee (EXELONPAC), with $202,500 going to Democratic candidates and $121,000 to Republican candidates. |
| 2021 | California fined PG&E $106 million for insufficient public communication during 2019 PSPS executions. |
| 2021 | PG&E announced a new technological strategy using machine learning models to improve predictive capabilities for fire spread and Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) decision-making. |
| November 18 2021 | DTE Energy committed to helping customers during the COVID-19 pandemic through the American Rescue Plan, as acknowledged in a White House statement. |
| July 2021 | PG&E announced a plan to bury an additional 10,000 miles of distribution lines over the next 10 years to reduce wildland fire risks, with the project estimated to cost about $40 billion. |
| July 22 2021 | FirstEnergy was fined $230 million for its role in the bribery scandal, as announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Vipal J. Patel. |
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