Sentences with phrase «by hydro power»

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.

Strong fit with strategic focus on the best assets in the aluminium industry - competitively positioned operations with improving cost position backed by hydro power..

Electricity is provided by the hydro powered generator at Five Sister's Lodge and the eco-friendly septic system is designed to avoid polluting the pristine river.

Not exact matches

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

They are employed by pulp and paper processing companies, nuclear and hydro power generating companies, mining, petrochemical and natural gas companies, industrial instrument and other manufacturing companies, and by industrial instrument servicing establishments.

So rather than selling off this surplus power (often at a loss), Ontario will now take advantage of the storage offered by Quebec's hydro reservoirs.

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

By the way, this means your hydro bill will go up so Woodfibre LNG can have cheap power.

By 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rateBy 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rateby 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

On if the improvement of power supply in the country is as a result of raining season or improvement on the part of Discos, Fashola said, «what is interesting is that for the first time in a long time, our gas fired plants and our hydro power plants driven by water have converged together, and when you factor that to the improvement that the Gencos investors have made into their plants and are still making, it explains the improved power supply that you have.»

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

The problem is that Jacobson's plan assumed nearly ten fold increase in hydro power, much of it by adding more generators to existing dams.

To my mind, the main point of the new paper by Caldeira and team is: we can get 80 % of our electric needs from solar, hydro, and wind power (if a low - loss national grid is built for America).

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

It's been a few years since the last sighting of any humans when, one day, a small search party of men — and one woman (Keri Russell, fine but under - written)-- led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke, very good), wanders into the woods, looking for a hydro - electric dam to restore power to the nearby city.

The small mountain country only uses about five percent of the energy produced by its 27 hydro - electric powerplants, exporting the majority of its power to neighboring India.

The EVs are driven by clean hydro electric power.

Steering is provided by a vehicle speed - sensitive hydro - electric power - assisted steering (HEPS) steering system.

Brake power is supplied by a powerful hydro - boost power braking system.

The energy used to manufacture the carbon fiber at Moses Lake is provided exclusively by locally sourced renewable hydro - electric power, which means it is 100 percent CO2 - free.

By power source, coal generated 33 % of Southern Company's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo is a true escape from the rest of the world, producing hydro - powered electricity and growing food for its El Gavilán Restaurant in its own organic garden.

Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo is a true escape from the rest of the world, and a model of sustainability, producing hydro - powered electricity and growing food for its El Gavilán Restaurant in its own organic garden.

The Five Sisters Waterfalls: The Five Sisters Lodge & Tours ensures easy access to our gorgeous waterfalls by means of Belize's only hydro - powered rain forest tram!

The player starts out riding the Switchblade which is provided by a friend to enable your character to start racing again before powering to the podium and victories to earn enough cash to upgrade each of the four attributes for a higher level performance for your hydro jets, while the further 8 hydro jets are unlocked by beating bosses at the end of each series within the career mode.

In addition to the charges for maintaining transmission & distribution infrastructure that Steve P. mentioned, and taxes & c, you need to multiply your figure by about 0.7, to account for the approximately 30 % of US power that comes from nuclear, hydro, geothermal, wind & c.

That coal gas fired power plants must be shut down by 2050 and replaced with whatever works, from nuclear, hydro, renewable, energy efficiency, and massive demand reductions across the board.

The new project by Falu Energi, Vatten and EcoDC AB will be powered by the local grid in Falun, which is exclusively fed by renewable sources including wind, solar, hydro and a nearby cogeneration plant.

The final 10 percent could be generated by geothermal, hydro, wave, and tidal power.

If the interest in tidal and wave power continues to escalate, the additional capacity from hydro, tidal, and wave by 2020 could easily exceed the 500 gigawatts needed to reach the Plan B goal.

Google is already well known for putting its significant power behind clean energy technologies, including their work in solar power, wind energy investments and their data centers being powered by hydro - electricity, which lead to the creation of Google Energy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electricity.

When completed the electricity generated by the Tomlin's hydro scheme could displace an equal amount of power currently generated by coal in Victoria and save up to two thousand tonnes of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from going into the atmosphere each year.

See News Portugal's renewable power output on August 1, excluding large hydro, declined to 44.8 GWh from 45.2 GWh in the previous day, statistics by power utility Redes Energeticas Nacionais (REN) show.

Solar, geothermal, wind, hydro, wave and tidal power, natural gas and clean coal would compete for customers under common rules in a single market governed by carbon - adjusted pricing.

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro - electric projects) was $ 270.2 billion in 2014, nearly 17 % higher than the previous year, according to the latest edition of an annual report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economic (DTIE) in cooperation with Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and produced in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

The average price paid by Ontario Hydro for clean, truly green hydro power at the dam is 3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh).

Many of the states with cheaper electricity rates than Iowa receive a lot of cheap power in the country is provided by hydro plants controlled by federal power authorities.

Also measure the impact of using hydro power and the power generated by pedaling.

Out of the total installed generation capacity of renewable power as on 31-03-2011, wind power accounted for about 71 %, followed by small hydro power (15.2 %) and Biomass power (13.3 %).

An excellent study by Joe Wheatley of the relatively isolated all Ireland grid, EifrGrid, which has negligible hydro, negligible interconnectors to UK, no nuclear and a mix of modern CCGT, coal, peat and CHP plants, and 17 % of electricity generated by wind power in 2011, found that wind was just 53 % effective at reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.

Yes, coal as coke is still used to reduce iron ore, but that coal and iron ore produce a permanent capital asset in the steel that will be reused by electric furnace for centuries, and wind and hydro can produce the electric power to recycle the scrap steel.

Capacity additions involving hydro, wind and solar PV have totalled 33.8 million kW so far this year, while capacity powered by fossil fuels amounts to 27.0 million kW and by nuclear is just 2.2 million kW - or 29.2 million kW for fossil fuels plus nuclear.

Methane is produced by the trees and plants which have been submerged by the dam waters and is released when the water passes through the turbines of hydro - electric power stations.

The complementary solicitations by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York Power Authority will invest up to $ 1.5 billion in wind, commercial solar and solar arrays, small and large - scale hydro, fuel cell and other technologies.

Australian coal - fired electricity is almost the cheapest power on the planet — rivalled only by some large hydro plants.

One might argue the answer is zero in the Pacific Northwest where most power is hydro, but even in heavy hydro / nuclear areas, the incremental marginal demand is typically picked up by natural gas turbines.

And Oregon already gets 40 percent of its electricity from carbon - free hydro, so this would put its total carbon - free power share at 90 percent by 2040.

S - 2314 requires that 2.5 % of kWh sold by power suppliers in New Jersey come from «Class I» renewable energy sources, which includes solar energy, wind energy, wave or tidal action, geothermal energy, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, fuel cells using renewable fuels, as well as hydro of 3 MW or less.

If the worldwide interest in tidal and wave energy continues to escalate, the additional capacity from hydro, tidal, and wave power by 2020 could easily exceed the 400 gigawatts needed to reach the Plan B goal.