Hydropower

Hydropower powers modern grids by turning moving water into electricity, with dams helping control flow and boost output.

What is hydropower?

Witty hydropower illustration with a cartoon water character spinning a turbine and sending electricity through power lines to a town.

Hydropower is what happens when a river stops being “just water” and starts doing electrical engineering. It takes the motion of flowing water, turns it into spinning machinery, and then turns that motion into electricity through electromagnetic induction. Old idea. Massive impact.