Japanese startup Yumes Frontier has developed a 2.7 kW micro-hydropower system that can be used in some buildings. It can also be combined with solar to provide power for lights and surveillance ...

The first time 52-year-old Juliana Balweg-Baawa switched on the light in her home, she jumped for joy. “My children can study at night!” Balweg-Baawa, a native of Mataragan village in the rugged ...

Lighting up a community: Ong and a volunteer checking the voltage of a micro-hydro power system. — KAMARUL ARIFFIN/The Star RANAU: In a hill village outside Ranau, the first flicker from a micro-hydro ...

You’ve felt it when your electric bill jumps again — something about the system just isn’t working for most American households. So you started thinking beyond just paying the utility every month.

Tonibung’s compound In Kampung Nampasan, nestled in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah, looks like a typical engineering workshop – with metal frames and bars stacked neatly to one side and bags of ...