Sentences with phrase «large hydro»

Large hydro projects are projected to generate 2 billion carbon credits by 2020, which could be a lot of hot air.

John Geesman: Fifty - five which is the 2030 target of RPS eligible power plus eight, which is the current amount of large hydro in California, is 63.

Most of the power to fuel this electrified transportation system of the future is expected to come from large hydro dams, however, where the consumption of land, and the resulting environmental damage, takes an even greater toll.

Over the full year 2017 renewable energy sources excluding large hydro plants represented 31 % of California's in - state electricity generation.

When you add in large hydro and nuclear, nearly 70 % of the electricity on PG&E's grid is now GHG - free — something we're very proud of.»

Pass large hydro lakes as you travel down the Waitaki Valley this morning, pausing at historic Oamaru with its collection of limestone heritage buildings and beautifully preserved Victorian Precinct.

Pass large hydro lakes as you travel down the Waitaki Valley to Oamaru and Dunedin — the «Scottish» city.

In a controversial move, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved three large hydro dam projects, despite concerns raised by civil society on the extensive adverse social and environmental effects these projects can have.

If the estimated $ 46 billion of large hydro investment is included in the renewable energy total, then renewables investment is clearly ahead of both gross and net investment in fossil fuel capacity.

The clean energy sector alone employed over 9 million people in 2015, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (and including large hydro).

Global renewable energy investment excluding large hydro hit US$ 280 billion last year, solar captured $ 161 billion of the total, and China's green boom gained...

The dam is one of several large hydro projects being built on tributaries of the Amazon River that are expected to damage pristine regions.

Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large hydropower projects.

Large hydro generators can be tailor - made for any hydropower project.

We did this to highlight the fact that most (if not all) 100 % green tariffs out there are actually based on green energy that's been in existence for up to 50 years — not wind particularly, but mostly large hydro.

Because it did not burn fossil fuels to supply the grid, electricity rates dropped an average of 12 per cent in April and are expected to continue downward thanks to large hydro reserves.

The proportion of electricity coming from renewables excluding large hydro rose from 10.3 per cent to 11.3 per cent.

Hawaii has the goal of 100 % renewable power by 2045, something the rest of us in the developed world need to hit a decade or so later (combined with whatever large hydro / nuclear still around then).

Solar photovoltaic panels on individual buildings or local windmills are distributed generation, while large hydro and wind farms are central generation requiring transmission and distribution (T&D).

15 GWe is 3 x large nuclear power plants 15 GWe is 3 x large hydro power plants 15 GWe is 15 x biggest Wind farms 15 GWe is 30 x biggest PV solar plants 15 GWe is 40 x Ivanpah CS solar plants

En + Group holds a 47.41 % stake in the world's largest alumina and aluminium producer UC RUSAL, and owns EuroSibEnergo PLC (one of the world's largest hydro generation companies and largest Russian independent power producer) and SMR (one of the world's largest ferromolybdenum producers).

Large hydro alone, however, does not always meet their requirements, nor does it allow Hydro - Québec to qualify for potentially lucrative renewable energy credits in many markets.

Capacity factor of course also explains why renewables excluding large hydro (and excluding CHP) account for almost twice the installed capacity of global nuclear, yet nuclear in 2013 still generated about 20 % more electricity than all those sources combined.

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

Alternatives include renewables with large hydro and with power storage.

Newfoundland and Labrador is constructing the massive Lower Churchill hydropower facility, and Manitoba is expected to begin building the Conawapa Generating Station, which would be the largest hydro - electric plant in the province's north.

Recent investments position one of the world's largest hydro - power companies to deliver significa...

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

There is an additional looming danger of considerable importance: Ethiopia, itself energy - poor and undergoing drought conditions, is shortly (in 2017) to complete construction of the largest hydro - electric dam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

At the same time, he argued, despite the safety risks and environmental hazards posed by nuclear and large hydro, respectively, the climate would be in far worse condition had countries not developed those sources.

A larger project is currently being considered that would create the largest hydro - electric generator in the world, potentially double that of the current record holder - the Three Gorges facility on the Yangtze River in China.

Expanding supply occupies the majority of press attention, and in the plan China does not disappoint: major expansions in coal extraction, unconventional natural gas (shale and coal - bed methane), large hydro, nuclear and renewables are already underway in an «all of the above» energy strategy.

Kaplan of the Conservation Law Foundation said that large hydro projects should be excluded because they're already a staple of eastern Canada's electricity mix.

Renewables, excluding large hydro, made up three - fifths of new capacity.

In 2015, renewable energy (excluding large hydro) made up the bulk (54.6 percent) of new installed generating capacity for the first time.