Sentences with phrase «svartisen hydropower plant»

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

They should also promote storage facilities for excess energy such as pumped storage hydropower plants or underground vaults for compressed air.

It's also backed by hydropower plants, which comprise 85 % of the portfolio, a unique asset position in renewable energy stocks.

David Youlen, an executive who managed the New York hydropower plants for Reliant and now runs them for Brookfield Asset Management, said those companies have invested $ 33 million to fix their hydro plants in the past three years.

The CEO, Hyde said, was extremely impressed, especially because Hyde could offer power at just 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour from nearby hydropower plants.

These threats include a proposed hydropower plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, just over the border into Kenya, and a factory to process the soda ash from the lake itself.

Bhutan hopes a new hydropower plant will help lift the country out of poverty while reducing pollution in India

One of the challenges the researchers faced in compiling these numbers is that countries define «small» hydropower plants differently.

It was not too long ago that the world turned to developing small hydropower plants.

Their research reports that nearly 83,000 small hydropower plants are operating or are under construction in 150 countries.

That's bad news for hydropower plants, navigators, property owners, commercial and recreational fishers and anyone who just enjoys the lake.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

Most nuclear and hydropower plants were built before 1990.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

Life on land: By displacing 1.8 terawatt hours of electricity from coal - fi red power plants, the hydropower plant avoids about 12,900 tons of SO2, 3,800 tons of NOx and 400 tons of fi ne dust per year.

Also, this internship grabbed my attention because American Rivers has a wide range of goals that they work to accomplish, from physically cleaning rivers to lobbying for regulations on hydropower plants.

In March of 2016, Max Boegl Wind AG, a German firm approached GE Renewable Energy with the idea to create the world's first onshore wind farm with an integrated hydropower plant.

The Rhone River has 19 hydropower plants supplying 25 % of France's hydropower and 4 % of the total energy supply.

Many biomass cogeneration plants and small hydropower plants are already in operation in Brazil, and more are under construction.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

«Our demonstrator also looked at specific regional effects that may have an impact on particular applications, such as the effect of climate change on freezing rain or hydropower plant inflows,» says Robert Vautard, team leader at CEA for the C3S contract.

Another climate - friendly energy project, in Nepal, has been delivering more than 1,000 micro hydropower plants since 2007 to communities in 52 districts across the country.

As existing large hydropower plants age, questions about refurbishment will continue to arise.

Run - of - river configurations were selected for the Rio Madeira hydropower plants because they virtually eliminate the need for reservoirs and the subsequent flooding of land, greatly reducing the environmental footprint.

Since Rousseff — a former head of oil giant Petrobras — took power, however, the controls have been weakened, deforestation is once again on the rise, more hydropower plants are planned in the Amazon and the government has approved its first coal - fired plant in nine years.

What's needed, Loutan said, is pricing incentives that encourage these hydropower plants to run full - bore during the steep new ramping periods.

Wind power, geothermal energy and mini hydropower plants are to complement the solar resources that are being exploited by private companies, entrepreneurs and civil institutions.

Much of the U.S. had settled on 60 Hz, but a hydropower plant built in the 1890s set Southern California on a different path.

This is realized by a small hydropower plant of 21 MW installed capacity, located in the city of Costa Rica in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

The electric sector in Brazil has been supplied traditionally by 88 % great hydropower plants, 8 % thermal, 1 % small hydropower plants, and 3 % nuclear.

In 2015 State Grid won a contract to build a 2,500 km line in Brazil, from the Belo Monte hydropower plant on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, to Rio de Janeiro.

They provide drinking water for villages and cities, irrigation water for farms, and fuel for hydropower plants.

People die producing electricity all the time — e.g. from transformer explosions inside hydropower plants.

The runoff from Zongo glacier flows through 10 hydropower plants that currently generate some 25 percent of Bolivia's electricity.

The US has over 2,000 hydropower plants which supplies a 96 % share (in total) or about 50 % from clean usage (or a tad higher) of the total US renewable energy sources making it the largest.

It was also the key topic for First Climate's recent company - wide excursion which took the teams from Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia to the run - of - river hydropower plant at Iffezheim in Southern Germany.

[Translate] By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Dams create huge reservoirs for hydropower plants in Norway.

The English courts will also grant injunctive relief to restrain breaches of an arbitration agreement even where the applicant has no intention of commencing arbitration (AES - UST Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP v UST - Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC [2013] UKSC 35).

Once a project is licensed and operating, we counsel hydropower licensees on day - to - day regulatory compliance and dam safety, market operations, and environmental compliance issues that come with owning and operating a hydropower plant.

This means that Hydro - Quebec can not cover the needs of all the Bitcoin miners looking to move to Quebec and the current population and industry, and it has no plans to build new hydropower plants.

Not exact matches

H2 Energy, together with IBAarau, has been working on the installation of a hydrogen generation plant at a hydropower facility in Aarau, in the country's north.

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.

Erie Boulevard Hydropower, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management of Canada, owns 71 hydro plants that were formerly part of Niagara Mohawk Power Corp..

Since the governor also is seeking to shut down any nuclear plant not located on Lake Ontario, the state's energy future depends on a combination of hydropower, windmills and solar panels.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

The administration has said hydropower could provide about 1,000 MW of replacement energy and transmission upgrades and energy efficiency, along with other renewable resources, will ensure the plant is replaced without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

For power plants, burning natural gas is cleaner than coal and dirtier than wind, solar and hydropower.

The comments appeared to confirm what geologists, biologists and environmentalists had been warning about for years: building a massive hydropower dam in an area that is heavily populated, home to threatened animal and plant species, and crossed by geologic fault lines is a recipe for disaster.