BC Hydro launches $1-billion push to help customers reduce power use and delay costly new infrastructure

Due to growing power demand and the desire to delay infrastructure projects, BC Hydro is launching the $1-billion Power Smart ...
Vancouver Sun on MSN

B.C. Hydro spending $1 billion on ambitious energy-saving program

B.C. Hydro is going big on reducing customers’ energy use to avoid having to spend billions on new power generation in the decades ahead.
Business Insider

Making the power grid 'smart' could save us all money and prevent blackouts. Chattanooga made the $280 million investment.

It pays to be smart and Chattanooga, Tennessee, has put a whole new meaning to the phrase. The city is home to one of the nation's most advanced power grids. The local utility, called EPB of ...
pv magazine International

How small hydropower can compete with solar PV

Can micro hydropower be a solution for remote energy access, especially in developing countries? And what standards are required?
Mongabay

In remote Philippine villages, micro-hydro alternatives power Indigenous homes

Around 3.6 million households in the Philippines are not connected to the national power grid. In the country’s mountainous north, some villages have overcome this challenge by building and ...