Sentences with phrase «as hydro power»

Batteries continue to get better all the time, and even simpler solutions such as hydro power from an enclosed system where the wind (when it's blowing) is used to pump water into storage reservoirs at the top of a hill or mountain or storage tank, and then when there's demand for power but no wind, the water is drained down to a bottom storage space and hydro power is generated from the falling water.

All of these sources experienced higher average growth rates than mature technologies such as hydro power (0.6 %), solid biofuels (2.6 %) and geothermal (2.3 %).

Not exact matches

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

(Durfy stepped down for personal reasons in 2010 and now serves as president of Northland Power, a developer of natural gas, wind and hydro projects.)

By 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.

«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

The restoration of the site also includes the installation of a combination of on - site renewable energy generating systems, such as power generating photovoltaic cells, a bio-fuelled steam - generating boiler and 6kW hydro - electric water wheel.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, said his Ministry had not been shedding power for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plPower, John Jinapor, said his Ministry had not been shedding power for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plpower for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plants.

As we put in cheaper hydro power we will adjust the tariff to reflect the cheaper power we are getting.»

However, as these rivers originate in India, India can use them for irrigation, transport and hydro - power generation.

On if the improvement of power supply in the country is as a result of raining season or improvement on the part of Discos, Fashola said, «what is interesting is that for the first time in a long time, our gas fired plants and our hydro power plants driven by water have converged together, and when you factor that to the improvement that the Gencos investors have made into their plants and are still making, it explains the improved power supply that you have.»

The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydro fracking as hazardous waste.

An increasing amount of this power is coming from renewable sources, such as wind, solar and hydro.

First, increase the share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and hydro - power, in the fuel mix and as a result maintain high energy independence.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

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.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

It's a hydro - powered hybrid that spews nothing but H2O particles out its tailpipe; far as I'm concerned, it looks like it should.

This mountain lodge in Belize's Cayo District offers comfortable accommodations ranging from Garden Cabanas to the split level Waterfall View Suite and the secluded Riverside Villa with rustic but stylish hardwood floors, pillow top mattresses, Frette and Matouk linen, and panoramic windows in all rooms as well as full restaurant and bar services, natural swimming pools, and Belize's only hydro - powered jungle tram to reach the spectacular waterfalls located directly on the property.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

Were open to increasing energy production through the use of nuclear and hydro - electric power as well as the «green» power such as wind and solar.

I've told people that Green Mountain Energy provides wind power here for about 1 cent more per KWH & wind / hydro for the same price as fossil fuel electricity, but no one cares to switch.

-- Both globally and nationally, renewables excluding big hydro have scaled at least as fast as nuclear power ever did, and without its two - decade «windup» period of building the very demanding capabilities and complex institutions required.

I'm also not sure along what metric Dr. Lovins finds that «globally and nationally, renewables excluding big hydro have scaled at least as fast as nuclear power ever did.»

The same as water is taxed for hydro power.

The highest shares of renewable energy are in states with plentiful hydro - power resources, such as Sweden, Finland and Austria.

Thus, the hydro plant will be able to make power when the prices are high and use power when they are low, complementing the grid as well as the wind turbines.

«There are other feasible methods for generating reliable economic non-carbon electricity — nuclear power as in France, geo - thermal as in Iceland, and hydro as in Scandinavia.

It is a myth that equal amounts of additional power, such as natural gas or hydro generation, must be built solely to manage the variability of wind energy generation.

Meaning the grid's power is just an accumulation of all generators such as coal, nuclear, hydro, etc..

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Characterized as the best mechanism for combating climate change, feed - in tariffs act as financial incentives for everyone to produce electricity from green energies such as solar, wind, biogas and run - of - the - river hydro power plants that is fed into the provincial electricity grid.

The German project is the first of its kind to combine hydro power with wind power and the team behind the farms found an ideal location: the Swabian - Franconian Forest, which has the exact hilly topography required for a project such as this.

Although hydroelectricity is sustainable, such as the micro hydro system that powers my home, on a massive scale it is not green.

Green power is electricity produced from a subset of renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and low - impact hydro.

Nuclear accounts for nearly one - quarter of power generation in BLUE Map and hydro for half as much, building on the important role both technologies already play in the Baseline scenario.

Here in Colorado, we have wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal power as obvious localized and renewable sources.

Out of the total installed generation capacity of renewable power as on 31-03-2011, wind power accounted for about 71 %, followed by small hydro power (15.2 %) and Biomass power (13.3 %).

Therefore, intermittent renewables are not a suitable source of power for pumped hydro, except in a few special, extraordinary cases --(such as El Heiro island where they have a 700 m high extinct volcano crater providing a large upper reservoir, good wind resource and are replacing high - cost diesel generation.)

Yes, coal as coke is still used to reduce iron ore, but that coal and iron ore produce a permanent capital asset in the steel that will be reused by electric furnace for centuries, and wind and hydro can produce the electric power to recycle the scrap steel.

The key to climate safety is therefore decarbonization: to shift from the fossil fuels to zero - carbon energy, such as wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power.

Pumped hydro is enormously expensive and much more expensive if used for storing energy from intermittent renewable energy supplies as distinct from reliable baseload supplies when power is cheap (midnight to 6 am) for release during the day, regularly almost every day of the year.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

The Earth's natural forces such as wind, hydro and solar power are limitless and effective ways to gain energy.

Conversely — and despite inadequate support historically for research and development of renewable energy — wind, solar, geothermal, and small hydro power have all improved in efficiency and availability so that they are finally becoming as viable as they are necessary (as some figures here will attest).

S - 2314 requires that 2.5 % of kWh sold by power suppliers in New Jersey come from «Class I» renewable energy sources, which includes solar energy, wind energy, wave or tidal action, geothermal energy, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, fuel cells using renewable fuels, as well as hydro of 3 MW or less.

I wouldn't take any notice of Science Daily as a reliable source on projected future hydro power developments

As the shift occurred to renewable energy load - balanced by natural gas and hydro, aging coal - fired power plants could be relegated to seasonal use.