August 18th, 2026
Courtesy of the California Policy Center, commentary on the watergy nexus of covering aqueducts and canals: Earlier this week, a respected YouTube channel covering the future of technology and energy released a video exploring the viability of solar panels covering California’s canals and aqueducts. The videos are hosted by Ricky Roy, a California-based mechanical engineer whose channel […]
Read more »California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both.
June 23rd, 2026
Via the New York Times, a look at a pilot program is building solar panels over irrigation canals to generate electricity. As a bonus, the shade prevents water from evaporating. In California, a sprawling 4,000-mile network of canals winds through citrus orchards and fields of tree nuts, delivering irrigation and drinking water to homes and farms […]
Read more »April 19th, 2026
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how Uzbekistan is betting on nuclear power to secure its energy future – but it is doing so in one of the most water-stressed regions in the world The Uzbek government’s plan to build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Jizzakh region, alongside the creation of a centralized […]
Read more »Energy as a Water Issue
March 9th, 2026
Via UPenn’s Kleinman Center, a report on the water/energy nexus: Power generation in cities like El Paso, TX is unsustainably consuming local water resources. Fixing this will require retrofitting cooling towers at power plants. What images come to mind when you think of environmental pollution? Likely one of them is a power plant cooling tower. […]
Read more »February 5th, 2026
Via UPenn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, a report on solar irrigation and hidden costs of clean energy: In water-scarce farming contexts, solar-based groundwater pumping for irrigation (SGPI) is celebrated for freeing farmers from unreliable diesel and grid power, which enables longer growing seasons and more competitive agricultural production. But this transition does not occur […]
Read more »Massive Energy Storage Project Eyed for Four Corners Region
January 6th, 2026
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how Colorado River water could enable a pumped storage hydropower project intended to make the region’s electric grid more resilient: Standing in a breezy parking lot on Navajo land in the state’s far northwest corner, Tom Taylor looked toward the western horizon and then upwards at the furrowed mass […]
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