Japanese startup Yumes Frontier has developed a 2.7 kW micro-hydropower system that can be used in some buildings. It can also be combined with solar to provide power for lights and surveillance ...

The first time 52-year-old Juliana Balweg-Baawa switched on the light in her home, she jumped for joy. “My children can study at night!” Balweg-Baawa, a native of Mataragan village in the rugged ...

Lighting up a community: Ong and a volunteer checking the voltage of a micro-hydro power system. — KAMARUL ARIFFIN/The Star RANAU: In a hill village outside Ranau, the first flicker from a micro-hydro ...

Tonibung’s compound In Kampung Nampasan, nestled in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah, looks like a typical engineering workshop – with metal frames and bars stacked neatly to one side and bags of ...

You’ve felt it when your electric bill jumps again — something about the system just isn’t working for most American households. So you started thinking beyond just paying the utility every month.

Rooftops with arrays of tiny wind-powered microturbines and hydro microturbines generating power as water flows through municipal drinking water systems or the outflow of municipal sewage treatment ...