The two proposed dam projects in Wise County are part of a nationwide renaissance of hydropower

Pete's Dam hydro proposal progressing

By Joe O’Grady, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Temiskaming Speaker TEMISKAMING SHORES – Efforts continue to create a demonstration site at Pete’s Dam for small-scale hydro-electric generation, with proponents getting ready to proceed to the next step. Tony Hamilton of Thordon Energy provided an update on the project – a joint initiative with Timiskaming First Nation – at Temiskaming Shores’ July council meeting. “We’ve done the engineerin…

The two proposed dam projects in Wise County are part of a nationwide renaissance of hydropower

When a Florida company recently proposed building two small dams in Wise County for hydropower projects, the announcement may have caught some by surprise. We haven’t seen hydropower built in Virginia in nearly half a century — when Dominion Energy started construction on its Bath County pumped storage project in 1977. However, the two projects proposed by Rye Development are part of a renaissance of small hydropower projects nationwide, driven …