Sentences with phrase «as hydroelectric plants»
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.
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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.
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.
«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.
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.
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.
The vulnerability was hinted at during last year's monsoon as a devastating landslide on Aug. 2 put five hydroelectric power plants out of commission, taking 66.5 megawatts of generation out of our national grid.
«Ultimately the things that will generate electricity in the developing world and here will be the same,» Rucker said, highlighting the next generation of nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams as particularly applicable in parts of Africa.
While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.
As we ascended the 1,300 - foot - high windswept knob, I was reminded continually of a remarkable gathering last December of environmentalists, lawyers and scholars who played critical roles in defeating a plan proposed by Consolidated Edison in 1962 to embed a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant in the mountain.
«As of 2009, the hydroelectric plant is the third - largest in the world, with 10,200 MW capacity.»
In the 1960s, most conservationists favored nuclear plants as a clean energy alternative to coal plants and hydroelectric dams and only turned away from nuclear with the rise of open anti-humanism.
Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.
The park's protection also ensures surrounding communities» access to water and food, as well as important economic opportunities for the 3,500 people employed by the park, ecotourism operators, and a small hydroelectric plant.
Hydroelectric plants such as Shasta Dam, in California, would suffer from reduced water flow.
Boosted by the growing share of solar and wind, 2016 serves as the second year where non-hydro renewable sources generated more electricity than hydroelectric plants.
After California's San Onofre nuclear plant closed, and the state suffered droughts that reduced hydroelectric output, natural gas - fired power increased from 45 to 61 percent of the state's electricity generation even as wind and solar capacity soared.
As of October 2014, Mongolia's total installed capacity for power generation from all sources stood at 1.09 GW, 90 % of it in CHP (combined heat and power) coal - fired plants, with 2 % in hydroelectric, 2 % in diesel, and 6 % in non-hydro renewables, mostly wind.
Skillful multi-year drought predictions and subsequent wildfire probability are particularly useful for water and forest resource managers as well as for cities, farmers, and hydroelectric power plant operators.
Heavily reliant on oil imports and with an annual energy deficit of 3,478 GWh as of 2009, electricity in Lebanon is for the most part generated by hydroelectric and thermal generation at present and in addition, there are power reliability issues «such as load shedding, technical losses, and the aging of power plants», which again the addition of dispatchable renewable energy facilities is intended to counteract.
The rest is made up mainly of large hydroelectric dams and a nuclear plant, deemed by most alternative - energy experts as unsustainable and hence not renewable.