Why is hydro-power energy called renewable energy?

But it's not considered renewable by everyone. It comes with some “pretty significant environmental baggage,” says John Seebach, senior director of federal river management with the conservation group American Rivers. read more

Renewable energy is defined as the medium used to generate the energy is not consumed for good. As in the fossil fuel once the fuel is used it would take hundreds of millions of years for the fossil fuel to renew itself. read more

The answer to that is key since it underlies policies states develop in fulfilling ambitious renewable energy goals. read more

Renewable energy is more along the lines of being a layman's term. Speaking in terms of physics with regards to the laws of thermodynamics, energy can not be created or destroyed. It should rather be coined as 'recyclable energy' but that is also borderline of being a layman term. read more