Consumers Warns Michigan: Dams Could be Torn Down Unless Utility Sells Them This story is part of a Great Lakes News Collaborative series called Shockwave: Rising energy demand and the future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is in the midst of a seismic energy shakeup, from skyrocketing data center demand and a nuclear energy boom, to expanding renewables and electrification. In 2026, the Great Lakes News Collaborative will explore how shifting supply and demand affect the region and its waters.

Consumers Energy is giving regulators an ultimatum: approve its plan to sell 13 hydropower dams to a private equity firm or face their decommissioning. State officials warn the deal could leave ratepayers exposed and Michigan rivers at risk.

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China begins building world’s biggest hydropower dam in seismically active Himalayan Tibet - Tibetan Review (TibetanReview.net, Jul20’25) – Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced on Jul 19 the start of the construction of the world’s biggest hydropower dam over the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Metog county of N...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced the start of building the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo in #Tibet, near India's Arunachal Pradesh.
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Witness the beauty of nature and the people of the Himalayas in "Karnali: Nepal's Last Free Flowing River."

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