Sentences with phrase «as hydroelectric»

Moreover, Turkey's positive approach to privatisation and extensive privatisation portfolio also provides important investment opportunities in businesses such as hydroelectric plants, mining and energy businesses.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear energy produces four times less carbon pollution per unit of energy than solar farms, 3.4 times less than solar roofs, three times less than geothermal, and half as much as hydroelectric dams.

Qi Ye points out the lead China has in producing renewable energy and nuclear power, as well as hydroelectric power generation from enormous dams.

In South America, a continent that has already been working to reduce their emissions due to their location, which is considered to be especially susceptible to the effects of climate change, there is a massive push among governments to continue to develop sources of renewable energy such as hydroelectric, geothermal, and solar.

At this time, our data is limited to Wind and Solar but we may add other key segments, such as hydroelectric power.

He means energy sources such as hydroelectric, solar and wind power, and possibly nuclear power.)

Renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric power comprised 53.6 % of all GW capacity of technologies that were installed during 2015.

Not exact matches

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

But as this week's Oroville, California dam crisis illustrates, hydroelectric energy technology comes with a major yet infrequent risk: Catastrophic collapse and flooding.

The data give a range of deaths for each type of power, but the ranking consistently places hydroelectric power as more deadly than nuclear energy and natural gas:

The U.S. Energy Information Administration classifies solar, wind, biomass, hydroelectric and geothermal energy as renewable.

Prentice cited the federal loan guarantee for Newfoundland's Lower Churchill River hydroelectric project as «a wise instrument of industrial policy,» and called for governments to «expedite the regulatory and environmental approval processes for megaprojects.»

ICLN holds a portfolio of «clean energy» companies, which it defines as those involved in the biofuels, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind industries.

Known as Electric City, Great Falls is located near a handful of hydroelectric dams.

As a result, some of the Yasuní money was designated for construction of the Huapamala Hydroelectric Project, a small power plant in the southern Andes.

Curt Whittaker, Managing Partner, has spent over 30 years in the renewable energy industry as legal counsel to developers, investors and lenders, working on landfill gas, wind, hydroelectric, solar and biomass development projects.

Interviewed by Pam Frampton of The Telegram regarding the governance of the hydroelectric development underway at Muskrat Falls, Labrador, as overseen by the Crown corporation, Nalcor Energy.

Lactalis» Buffalo and Nampa facilities both utilize hydroelectric power generation as part of the company's effort to pursue non-fossil fuel - based energy sources and prevent carbon dioxide emissions.

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.

Kristina Johnson, an engineer who developed technology critical to 3 - D movies and served as under secretary in the U.S. Energy Department before founding a hydroelectric company, will be appointed chancellor of the SUNY, replacing outgoing Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the first woman to hold the post.

NYPA operates several hydroelectric dams in the state, some of which are on waterways that are also classified as canals.

«As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation, I am pleased to see these three hydroelectric visitor centers upgraded,» said Senator Mark J. Grisanti.

As the Bill for an Act to amend the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) passes second reading at the Senate, 2 Benue Lawmakers, Senators...

As the ice disappears, Thompson says, Peru will lose sources of irrigation and hydroelectric power.

We must focus on bringing together wind, solar, natural gas, biofuels, hydroelectric, geothermal and advanced clean coal as part of a diversified energy portfolio since there is no single solution.

Batteries get the most attention as a promising solution although pumped hydroelectric storage is currently used most often.

When analyzing water, for instance, according to Conservation International, researchers studied the value of the crops dependent on water for irrigation, as well as the value of the energy water generates through hydroelectric dams, among other factors.

It was humdrum stuff — until one official mentioned in passing that this tree - lined curve in the river, a popular picnic spot for Hungarians, was to be drowned by a giant hydroelectric dam being planned in secret by a much - feared state agency known simply as the Water Management.

Ocean Wave Power Hydroelectric has been developed as far as it can go, given environmental concerns about dams.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

The crisis has also further depleted Puerto Rico's power supply, as the Guajataca lake supplies hydroelectric power as well as drinking water.

As a result, the nation's hydroelectric generation dropped by almost a quarter compared with last year.

The researchers specifically excluded power resources such as nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar as each of these already produce electricity at maximum capacity.

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

For the third time in a decade, a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, has rejected as inadequate the U.S. government's plan for making hydroelectric dams safer for endangered salmon and steelhead in the Pacific northwest.

«Options could include nuclear and hydroelectric power generation, as well as managing demand.»

«Over the past 60 years, a myriad of dams have been built either to provide hydroelectric power, or for irrigation purposes, or as flood protection,» says Bernhard Lehner, a professor in McGill University's Department of Geography and the research director of the project.

Some of the biggest hydroelectric dams globally that portray engineering marvel have been created along the major rivers such as the Nile and the Zambezi in Africa.

«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.

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams have been removed in recent years as was not worth the damage being done to the environment

«Night Moves,» described as a «noir - thriller,» follows three radical environmentalists plotting the explosion of a hydroelectric dam — the symbol of the energy - sucking, resource - devouring industrial culture they despise.

Frustrated by continually escalating threats to the environment and by the deafness shown by political leaders, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, «Now You See Me») an organic farmer who lives in an agricultural cooperative in Oregon, Dena (Dakota Fanning, «The Last of Robin Hood») a young college dropout with considerable family wealth, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, «Green Lantern»), an ex-Marine with expert knowledge of explosives, decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam as a protest against the desecration of the environment.

That operation is to blow up a hydroelectric dam, one of several that's been erected on an Oregon river, and the intention is as much symbolic as anything: as Josh says, «People are going to start thinking.

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

With the bridge, good roads connecting to Vietnam and hydroelectric projects dotting the province, the town is establishing itself as a commercial centre (and a notorious hub for the illegal wildlife trade).

From here we take the zigzagged trail down to the hydroelectric dam on the Urubamba River and then to the bustling tourist town now known as Machu Picchu Pueblo (formerly called Aguas Calientes).

Opponents must dodge the floodwaters in «Hydro» as they contend for dominance of this hydroelectric dam facility in Pakistan, filled with treacherous spillways.

Through drawing, the class considers hydroelectric power and the gravitational potential of energy as a way to examine state changes in matter and liquid.