Sentences with phrase «as hydropower dam»

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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.

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.

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).

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.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

This push to demolish large dams on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest, which got 70 percent of its electricity supply from hydropower as of 2009, has been criticized by influential policymakers, such as House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R - Wash.).

These dams will serve mainly as a source of hydropower, with a total potential of 1,890 megawatts.

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

However, in February 2011, Chinese officials revealed plans to resume the Nu River dams as part of China's 12th Five - Year Plan, which aims to add up to 140 GW of new hydropower capacity to meet its renewable energy targets.

This will have a knock - on effect on the animal species that inhabit these islands, as well as having serious implications for the carbon balance of hydropower dams relative to other sources of energy.

The second article, published on June 24, was titled «Lake Mead watch: As levels fall, hydropower dips» and began by saying, «As water levels in Lake Mead continue to drop, the future of «the greatest dam in the world» is more precarious than it ever has been...»

While pressuring investors to withdraw their support for large hydropower projects has traditionally been the most effective way to stop a dam, occasionally putting pressure on the host government is enough to stop a project in its tracks — as was the case with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Ruth Buendia.

BPA curtails hydropower generation as far as it can, but is constrained by regulations limiting how much water can be spilled over the dams.

In the worst - case (large dams flooding forested areas) hydropower's greenhouse gas emissions and effects on biodiversity can be as bad as any fossil fuel.