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The northeastern U.S. is tapping into Canadian hydropower.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Hydropower is one of the oldest forms of energy creation.

It's using the flow of rushing water to create electricity.

The province of Quebec and Canada has historically had an abundance of it,

and later this spring, it'll start supplying hydropower to New York City.

This is the second big hydropower line to link Quebec in the northeastern U.S. this year.

A line to Massachusetts came on board this

winter. Right now, the power is going one way, from Canada to the U.S. But some are thinking

that the U.S. could eventually sell renewable wind energy back to Canada and let that country

hold on to its hydropower for when it's really needed, creating a kind of regional battery.

Marketplace's Henry App has been reporting on these lines. I asked him how this all got started

more than a decade ago. So when these were first dreamed up, the government-owned utility

hydro-Ka-Ka-Ka-Kegh had this big surplus of hydropower, so the government wanted to sell some of it to the

south, and these states, Massachusetts and New York, wanted to cut fossil fuels. But now that surplus

is not as big as it was for a couple different reasons. One is that Quebec has been in a drought

for the last three years. Two, there are more data centers and other industries in the province that want to

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