Iran has inaugurated a hydroelectric power plant in the Kurdish-populated city of Sardasht in the country’s northwest, in a further boost to the national grid which is under strain from runaway demand.

Nineteen people are confirmed dead and more than 3,000 need to be rescued after a dam collapsed in a remote part of land-locked Laos.

California Governor Jerry Brown signs an order to put five million electric cars on the state's roads by 2030.

Catalans protest against Spanish government's plan to transfer water from Ebro River to other cities.

Norway’s Statkraft gives up a hydropower project worth USD 1.5bn in Nepal citing bureaucratic hurdles and political instability in the country.

Iran has fully designed, engineered and constructed a water turbine for the first time, etching a niche in the renewable energy industry.