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  "path": "/news/12032026/inside-clean-energy-hydropower-potential/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-12T13:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
  "tags": [
    "Clean Energy",
    "Dam",
    "Dams",
    "Data Centers",
    "electricity",
    "Energy",
    "Energy Information Administration",
    "energy transition",
    "Hydroelectric",
    "Hydroelectric Dams",
    "hydroelectric plant",
    "hydroelectric power",
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    "Inside Clean Energy",
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  "textContent": "The International Energy Agency’s executive director has called hydropower a “forgotten giant,” and has urged governments to do more to remember it. U.S. President Donald Trump has said hydropower is “fantastic,” a sharp contrast to his disdain for wind and solar. But federal energy data shows that U.S. hydropower output has been nearly flat while […]",
  "title": "Can Hydropower Ride the Wave of the Energy Boom?"
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