Lea-Rachel Kosnick < Back to Writers
Lea-Rachel Kosnik is an Economics professor at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. Her main area of research is environmental and regulatory economics, and she has published a number of papers in a variety of journals on the implications of hydroelectric power in particular.
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Big Hydro Is Dead! Long Live Big Hydro!
Build new, low-impact hydropower facilities but keep the old: Large dams already in existence can be improved.
Reducing Big Problem With Little Hydro Plants
Hydropower will never be the complete answer to emissions-free energy production in the U.S., but a strong case can be made for it becoming a useful part of the answer. Part two in a three-part series.
Hydro Doesn’t Have to Be Big
In the first of a three-part series looking at the untapped potential for hydropower to supply the U.S. with carbon-free electricity, Lea-Rachel Kosnik finds ample opportunities for expanding hydro.