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If you’ve ever spent time around Table Rock Lake when the lake level is high after repeated heavy rainfall events, you may have noticed something ...
Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, ...
China has begun building the world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet—a $167 billion project set to reshape regional waterways. The Motuo Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, which ...
Michael Kubik, Travis County: Sirens, such as the one in Comfort, Texas, would have helped. Not allowing variances to the ...
Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two ...
After Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Texas Legislature passed three significant bills directing more than a billion dollars to flood control and emergency response. As a result of that legislation, the ...
Hydropower accounts for nearly 30% of utility-scale renewable energy in the U.S., but federal hurdles may prevent older ...
Primary frequency of hydropower unit plays an important role in the stability of the grid frequency. The operation mode of hydropower governor has remarkable effect on the frequency modulation. In ...
The cloudburst on June 25 unleashed floods across remote Sainj valley, crippling nearly the entire hydropower corridor. Within hours, raging waters—laden with boulders, silt and uprooted trees ...
This paper introduces a gain-scheduling PID controller design strategy for hydroturbine frequency control mode. This scheme first uses real data to learn the nonlinear dynamics of the hydroturbine ...