Sentences with phrase «balbina hydroelectric plant»

For example, during the last major geomagnetic storm experienced by Earth in 1989, the entire Canadian province of Quebec went dark when a critical Canadian hydroelectric plant went down.

The green energy entity is an acquisitions spinoff for renewable - energy company SunEdison, which purchases wind, sun, and hydroelectric plants, along with other assets.

And when it comes to energy, Brookfield owns 218 hydroelectric plants on 82 river systems in North and South America.

Our manufacturing site is mainly powered by a hydroelectric plant and they do not use the same toxic chemicals that are often used as a wash overseas.

The project which is estimated to cost $ 100 billion, and if completed would be the world's largest hydroelectric plant is more than twice the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China.

-- A company that owns 71 hydroelectric plants acquired from Upstate utility company Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. estimated a combined Empire Zone take of roughly $ 142 million.

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

The Varick Street hydroelectric plant in Oswego is one of the Upstate hydro facilities for which Brookfield Asset Management, of Canada, got tax breaks through the Empire Zones program.

And there's long - standing political opposition by labor unions and lawmakers who have for years pushed to have power generated in the state rather than imported from Quebec, which has substantial government - run hydroelectric plants.

«These plants represent some of the best and most important hydroelectric plants in the country.

«The Power Authority takes great pride in the integral role that our visitors centers play in the communities and in their highlighting our sustainable hydroelectric plants and the new energy technologies that we deploy in our business and with our customers.»

«The planned upgrades of our Niagara Power Vista and two other upstate visitors centers are the latest examples of the importance that the Power Authority places on being an integral member of the communities where our hydroelectric plants are located,» said John R. Koelmel, NYPA chairman.

«The state has been quite aggressive with other renewables, we have quite a lot of energy coming from hydroelectric plants, and there has been a lot of work to boost other green energy, including wind and solar,» he said.

The union says the Power Authority has exploited its quasi-government status to avoid reaching a contract with about 50 unionized workers who operate some of the massive hydroelectric plants in western and northern New York.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

After the Soviet takeover in 1940, these towns and villages were linked up to the grid and the hydroelectric plants shut down.

At one time or another the ash clouds closed 11 airports, and ash that washed into the water intake of one major hydroelectric plant caused $ 6.5 million in damage.

Proposals have been put forward to set up the pipeline so that the downward flow of the water goes through a hydroelectric plant that would in turn power a desalination plant, providing up to 850 million m3 of fresh water per year to the parched region.

The cut in the royal fuel bill will come thanks to a hydroelectric plant on the river Thames, which will start supplying power to Windsor Castle, one of her numerous homes.

Hydroelectric plants, for instance, often draw on reservoirs to generate additional electricity at peak times, and then pump some of the water back uphill in off - peak periods.

For instance, power from a new Chinese wind farm or hydroelectric plant might displace electricity that would otherwise come from carbon - spewing fossil fuels.

In a sense, the road passing underneath the wheels plays the role of a river for a hydroelectric plant.

That's because the city has a really clean grid thanks to nearby hydroelectric plants.

And into the generator gallery of a hydroelectric plant: «The noises are all low notes — hums, buzzes, groanings, rhythmic vibrations that you feel rather than hear.»

«Each one of these loops carries as much energy as a large hydroelectric plant, such as the Hoover dam, generates in about a million years!»

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

Tension and distrust emerge when German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria mix with the locals.

A German construction crew works on building an EU - funded hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria.

Valeska Grisebach's Western is a more stately, sombre, slow - moving affair, which upends the tropes of the western genre by removing them to a novel setting - southern Bulgaria, to be precise, where a group of migrant German workers are constructing a hydroelectric plant.

INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC. $ 15 (Toronto symbol INE; High - Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 108.6 million; Market cap: $ 1.6 billion; Dividend yield 4.4 %; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.innergex.com) operates 31 hydroelectric plants, 21 wind farms and one solar power field.

INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY (Toronto symbol INE; www.innergex.com) operates 26 hydroelectric plants, six wind farms and one solar power facility in Quebec, Ontario, B.C. and Idaho.

The company gets 73 % of its power from hydroelectric plants.

You showed us the hydroelectric plant, now nothing more than metal and concrete falling to rubble.

After a good rest, we will go 3 more hours down to the Hydroelectric plant.

Pyramid and Castaic act as the upper and lower reservoirs for a 1,495 - megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric plant.

• You can also drive (most of the way) to Machu Picchu from Cusco to the town of Hydroelectrico (there's a hydroelectric plant there).

In 1901 - 1905 a narrow pathway was hammered into the right - hand side of the gorge to provide access to a hydroelectric plant.

As one of fundamental requirements, those seeking to purchase tickets for the Local Train must exhibit their National Identity Card (DNI) to prove that they reside in one of the communities located between Cusco and the town of Machu Picchu or the hydroelectric plant.

After putting up the tent we were getting hungry and headed back to see our friend and birding guide Boontom and went to eat at a restaurant serving delicious Thai food at great prices near the hydroelectric plant.

After a good rest, we will go down to the Hydroelectric plant on the Urubamba River, from here, depending on the time, we will walk and / or take the train to Aguas Calientes, Night in a Hostel.

We descend sharply to the Urubamba valley and the hydroelectric plant train station.

They created a community with a sawmill, dairy farm and small hydroelectric plant.

Day Three — Optional Zip Lining over a canyon outside of Santa Teresa, or alternatively a three hour hike to the Hydroelectric plant (usually sunny and dry), followed by an easy three hour hike from the Hydroelectric plant to Aguas Calientes (usually sunny, but can be rainy depending on the time of year).

Located at the confluence of two of the preserve's rivers, the hydroelectric plant is in a perfect position to harness the energy of the rushing waters.

The last day, Day 8, we will relax, maybe go to the famous Colo de Mono canopy zipline or the hot springs of St. Theresa, before making the easy three hour walk from the HydroElectric plant to Aguas Calientes — the town below Machu Picchu.

From here, we walk down to the hydroelectric plant and take the train to Aguas Calientes, where we spend the night in a comfortable hostel.

-- «Hydro» — hydroelectric plant / dam located in Pakistan.

The underground tunnel system is what actually brings the water into New York City while the electricity is supplied by a distant hydroelectric plant in a Canadian forest.

The pavilion included a display from the New York State Power Authority with a 26 - foot scale replica of the St. Lawrence hydroelectric plant.

Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.