A vegetated island the size of two football fields may or may not still be floating around in a massive man-made lake in northern British Columbia, Canada. And nobody is quite sure how it wound up there- or where it went.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office (H2O) has awarded $5.5 million in total funding to 11 U.S. National Laboratory projects that are meant to help expedite and reduce the cost of licensing and relicensing American hydropower facilities.
Sweden’s rejection of 11 projects due to national security concerns demonstrates the “continuing uncertainty” of the country’s offshore wind sector, according to Hexicon – which saw its 2.5GW Mareld project dismissed.