Hydropower Technologies
The Water Power Program's hydropower research and development (R&D) efforts focus on advancing technologies that produce electricity from falling or flowing water. For more than 100 years, hydropower has been an important source of flexible, low-cost, and emissions-friendly renewable energy. The program is currently leading efforts to increase the generating capacity and efficiency at existing hydropower facilities; add hydroelectric generating capacity to non-powered dams; and reduce hydropower's adverse environmental impacts.