Sentences with phrase «at hydropower»

The Sensor Fish is part of a large set of tools PNNL has developed to improve fish survival at hydropower facilities.

H2 Energy, together with IBAarau, has been working on the installation of a hydrogen generation plant at a hydropower facility in Aarau, in the country's north.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

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-...]

It calls for banning hydrofracking at both the state and federal levels and also urges further research in, and economic support for, alternative forms of «non-polluting» energy sources like wind, solar and hydropower.

Governor Paterson Approves Hydropower Contract Extensions with More Than 100 Western New York Companies Tuesday December 21, 2010 at 01:42 pm

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the time of the Indian Point closure announcement that up to 1,000 megawatts of power could come from the planned $ 2.2 billion Champlain Hudson Power Express project, which would bring hydropower from Canada to the New York metropolitan area.

The authority sells hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston to about 100 local companies at prices that are presently 30 to 40 percent below market rates.

43North has been the single largest recipient of a special fund created to ensure Western New York gets its fair share of profits from the sale of hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston.

Buhari said while the borrowed funds would be used to finance the deficit in the 2017 budget, they would provide funding for the capital projects in the budget, including the Mambilla hydropower project; construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; counterpart funding for rail projects; and the construction of the Bodo - Bonny road, with a bridge across the Opobo Channel.

There is no doubt that one of the biggest economic assets to the region is the low - cost hydropower created at the Niagara Power Project.

In addition, recipients must also undertake capital investments at their Western New York facilities receiving the hydropower which collectively will total approximately $ 150 million a year over the term of the extensions.

The hydropower is provided at rates that are more than 50 percent less than current wholesale market prices in the State.

WHITE PLAINS — The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced today that it received the Outstanding Stewards of America's Waters (OSAW) Award at the National Hydropower Association's (NHA) annual conference and luncheon in Washington, D.C..

The CEO, Hyde said, was extremely impressed, especially because Hyde could offer power at just 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour from nearby hydropower plants.

Dams are a major problem for some of these migrators — there are at least 37,600 hydropower dams in rivers globally, with hundreds more in progress.

China is building hydropower at a record pace that has resulted in more dams — 26,000 — than in any other country.

Policies supporting growth in the small hydropower sector are often crafted at the national or international level, Kibler noted.

Whether it's offsets from no - till farming that would have happened anyway from the Chicago Climate Exchange or offsets from hydropower dams in China that would have been built anyway under the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, it's all a bit of a shell game at present.

«Hydropower is a tremendous resource, often available in areas far from other sources of power, and critical to the future of many people around the globe,» said Richard Brown, a senior research scientist at PNNL and the lead author of the Fisheries paper.

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

Yang Fuqiang, a senior climate and energy expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, agreed that China's hydropower plan will stand, though not primarily for energy supply concerns.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

In addition to providing hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell stores water from the upper basin states and releases it into downstream Lake Mead to ensure the upper basin states meet their obligations under the 1922 compact.

That «could translate into a drop in water supply for meeting irrigation demands and adversely impact hydropower operations at reservoirs,» the Interior Department said recently.

Now he works at energy utility company Scottish and Southern Energy developing another technique of storing wind power: pumped hydropower.

Glaciers are at the headwaters of several of Asia's major water systems and have an impact on drinking water, irrigation, food, and hydropower for billions of people.

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).

Our project experience encompasses a wide range of technologies, including mid-sized wind, solar, small hydropower, biomass fuel substitution, biogas production, methane destruction at dairy farms and landfills, transportation efficiency and residential water filtration in developing countries.

The country can compensate by developing more windfarms and using hydropower — which is abundant at exactly these times.

These types of extreme events are projected to increase in the future, putting at risk Oregonians» access to safe and adequate water supplies, hydropower, and transportation.

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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.

«With the deluge of proposed hydropower dams and diversions in the Balkan peninsula we are looking at what could be irreversible environmental destruction»

«With the deluge of proposed hydropower dams and diversions in the Balkan peninsula we are looking at what could be irreversible environmental destruction, but there is very little awareness of this issue in Europe or globally,» said Ryan Gellert, general manager, EMEA, of outdoor clothing company Patagonia, which backed the film financially.

note 2; hydropower, including tidal and wave, from IEA, Renewables in Global Energy Supply: An IEA Fact Sheet, pp. 13, 25, at www.iea.org/textbase; rooftop solar water and space heaters from IEA, Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21, op.

It is aimed at assisting key decision makers ensure hydropower development is managed in the most sustainable manner possible.

Hydropower and nuclear will mostly plod along at their current pace.

Defines: (1) «renewable electricity» as electricity generated from a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resources; (2) «renewable energy resource» as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, renewable biomass, biogas and biofuels derived exclusively from renewable biomass, qualified hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; and (3) «other qualifying energy resource» as landfill gas, wastewater treatment gas, coal mine methane used to generate electricity at or near the mine mouth, and qualified waste - to - energy.

The remaining generation mix was designed to keep nuclear and imported hydropower at the Baseline Scenario levels, with fossil fuel generation dispatched to meet the remaining load.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Wind power is the world's leading source of renewable electricity, excluding hydropower, with 238,000 megawatts of capacity installed at the start of 2012.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

Trump also marveled at Norway's hydropower and wished the U.S., which gets more than 6 percent of its electricity from hydro, had more of it.

While hydropower comes at 0.01 $ / w, solar still seats itself in the 5 $ / w. Sounds expensive?

In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the output of independent solar arrays and wind farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the output of a 24 - hour power plant.

«Our demonstrator also looked at specific regional effects that may have an impact on particular applications, such as the effect of climate change on freezing rain or hydropower plant inflows,» says Robert Vautard, team leader at CEA for the C3S contract.

The Economic Bank for Reconstruction and Development estimates that Ukraine has great renewable energy potential: the technical potential for wind energy is estimated at 40 TWh / year, small hydropower stations at 8.3 TWh / year, biomass at 120 TWh / year, and solar energy at 50 TWh / year.