Sentences with phrase «as hydropower»

The extra that consumers pay for their power funds investment by power producers in alternative - energy sources such as hydropower, solar and wind.

But what do thriving liana communities mean for Balbina in the long - term, and for the Amazon in general, as hydropower development rapidly expands across the basin?

Implementation of favorable government regulations such as the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs in the U.S. and growing number of funding programs pertaining to the renewable energy sector in developed countries such as Italy and Canada are some of the factors which are expected to present future growth opportunities.

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

«Sectors such as hydropower production, infrastructure operation, or water management [reservoirs] will be directly affected.

Ulrich Eichelmann, head of campaign group RiverWatch, said clean energy such as hydropower, could have negative effects on the environment.

Market and policy frameworks will also need to put other measures in place, such as long - term price signals to attract investment, pricing negative externalities, and fostering a portfolio of dispatchable renewable technologies, such as hydropower and bioenergy.

Is» haq Mohammed Lapai, as well as representatives of the NERC, the TCN as well as the Hydropower Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC).

Nikola plans to process its own hydrogen fuel at each station with on - site solar power, wind power or by buying electricity created through renewable sources such as hydropower.

Not exact matches

This massive undertaking will help scientists better understand how much liquid water is contained within snow and how viable snow is as a resource of liquid water on our planet for drinking, agriculture, and hydropower.

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

«We have seen quite a few [solar] projects get off the ground, [and] a few hydropower projects as well in the last two to three years,» Rouget says.

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.

Those electricity imports helped to stave off potential blackouts as electricity production in the Pacific Norwest suffered due to a drought reducing output from hydropower in Washington, Oregon, and California.

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

As an initial measure, the company converted all its Swiss sites to sustainable power at the start of 2017 Emmi is now taking another major step by converting all its European sites to 100 % hydropower, thereby reducing its -LSB-...]

Hydro - Québec petitioned the Public Service Commission to allow large - scale and incremental new hydropower to get the same subsidies as new solar or wind projects but was rejected.

Under the contract extensions, the businesses receiving hydropower, including those in such major industries as automotive, chemicals, metals, printing and food - processing, each must meet an agreed - upon «base employment level.»

These extensions of hydropower contracts are key to assuring local job retention and growth, as well as new capital investment.

NYPA's Niagara Power Project hydropower is provided under State law to Western New York companies under two power programs, known as Replacement Power (RP) and Expansion Power (EP).

The lawmaker is a member of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus and has discussed the need to develop clean and renewable energy in New York's 21st Congressional District, including wind and hydropower as part of an «all of the above» energy approach.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

After all, building hydropower will also enable the proliferation of intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.

Such river basin regimes could prove vital in other areas of the world undergoing a hydropower boom, as well, Richter says.

As a result, a coalition of Chinese scientists and environmentalists signed a petition this May calling for a halt to «overdevelopment» of hydropower in the Yangtze River Basin.

As a result, many private landowners and corporations can leverage easier environmental permitting to build small hydropower dams for a fraction of the time and cost of large dams.

Other companies are looking to harness the flow of wastewater facilities to capture at least some of the hydropower as electricity.

In a place like Paris or the Pacific Northwest, where much of the region's electricity comes from nuclear or hydropower, respectively, the Model S or Roadster can tout itself as a near — zero - emission vehicle.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

As of July, on average, not even half of its installed hydropower capacity found water to turn turbines, the company's statistics show.

Other forms of energy stockpiling, such as pumping water uphill to later flow back down through hydropower generators, are attractive but limited in scope.

Glacial meltwater is important for irrigation, drinking water and hydropower, both for mountain villages and large cities such as La Paz and El Alto.

As a long - time green campaigner, Tony Juniper was the obvious man to write it — and he has the wisdom to leave us with hope, as we contemplate the rise of small - scale hydropower and onshore wind energy, as well as sustainable, circular economieAs a long - time green campaigner, Tony Juniper was the obvious man to write it — and he has the wisdom to leave us with hope, as we contemplate the rise of small - scale hydropower and onshore wind energy, as well as sustainable, circular economieas we contemplate the rise of small - scale hydropower and onshore wind energy, as well as sustainable, circular economieas well as sustainable, circular economieas sustainable, circular economies.

PNNL's improved Sensor Fish is a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience as they pass through dams and other hydropower structures.

[1] EO 13693 defines «clean energy» as heat and electricity produced from the following sources: 1) Renewable electric (e.g., electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, incremental hydropower);

Couch investigates such established sources of energy as nuclear, natural gas, and coal as well as cutting - edge technologies involving wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, and biomass production in this accessible guide to urgent energy challenges.

What about hydropower, which is billed as a sustainable form of electricity generation because it produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels?

In the Northwest, existing hydropower facilities are not defined as renewable sources because of the impact on the salmon population.

At the time of writing more than 99 % of the world's energy storage was in pumped hydro (not considering water in hydropower dams as energy storage).

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Wind becomes the single largest source of renewable generation by 2040, supplanting hydropower as the largest renewable generation source.

Looking at electrical rates in the 48 contiguous states, one might expect to see prices vary according to the amount of inexpensive hydropower or more expensive renewable power or other factors such as the temperature or level of urbanization.

California's Energy Imbalancing Market is a strategy to buy cheap out - of - state hydropower from federal dams to replace the government - induced high price for natural gas peaker power as a result of shifting to green power.

California is investing in solar and wind farms, but outsources a great deal of its electrical production (to «large» hydropower that the state officially does not recognize as «renewable»; and to fossil fuel)-- and Californians show little inclination to reduce their liquid fuel consumption.

Hydropower is already widely used across the region but environmentalists fear the investment in coal could backfire as governments may be forced to invest hundreds of millions of euros more to upgrade plants to meet European Union environmental standards as the countries progress toward membership of the bloc.

As already partly mentioned in comments above, I'm missing other types of renewable energy in the article... hydropower and biogas especially.

The CEC concluded it would be very difficult to consider British Columbia hydropower as renewable power for California.

It has enjoyed healthy growth in capacity worldwide over the last decade as stakeholders continue to value the potential of hydropower development to help meet growing energy demand.

Clean electricity, their aides explained, includes wind, solar, and hydropower; nuclear energy; and even fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, as long as those are burned in plants that capture the CO2 emissions and trap them underground.