Sentences with phrase «by hydropower»

Decreases by 20 - 50 % or more are computed for Portugal, Spain, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Turkey, where between 10 % (Ukraine, Bulgaria) and 39 % of the electricity is produced by hydropower (Lehner et al., 2005a).

«Globally, wind power accounted for about 39 % of renewable power capacity added in 2012, followed by hydropower and solar PV, each accounting for approximately 26 %.

Norway generates more power than it uses (around 99 percent of domestic energy needs are met by its hydropower dams), so much so that they export surplus energy to their neighbors.

Depending on the electricity source of the local grid, even the most efficient electric car could be charged by coal or natural gas, or by hydropower (no combustion emissions, but linked to increased methane emissions), or nuclear energy (which might qualify as clean or low - carbon energy, but which also has its own environmental bugaboos and massive costs to consider)

Norway maintains the most extensive mass balance program in the world and is largely funded by the hydropower industry.

A part of the problem of the pseudo-random variability of supply and demand could be overcome by introducing Supply Dependent Load, which is discussed in my Sustainable Electricity page and hydropower could also be used to balance generation and consumption (as is done very effectively with wind power in Denmark balanced by hydropower from Norway).

New research now suggests that one more effect may be added to the list: carbon emissions from islands created by hydropower reservoirs.

In a PowerPoint presentation, he illustrated how electricity pricing has declined by a dramatic 55 percent over the past six years in the mid-Columbia energy market in central Washington, a region dominated by hydropower.

Today, more than 7 percent of all U.S. electricity is supplied by hydropower.

The HSAP was created between 2007 and 2010 by the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF), an initiative of the International Hydropower Association (IHA), a lobbying group formed in 1995 to represent the interests of dam builders.

Jacobson's original 2015 paper outlined how the U.S. could be 100 percent fueled by hydropower, solar and wind.

It's also backed by hydropower plants, which comprise 85 % of the portfolio, a unique asset position in renewable energy stocks.

Not exact matches

The analysis by the state - owned giant mentioned that China's energy sources are expected to become cleaner in the years ahead with increased investment in clean energy like hydropower and solar.

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

The impressive milestone was driven by significant wind, hydropower and biomass sources.

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.

The U.S. is by far the biggest customer for Canada's exports in natural gas, oil and hydropower.

** Russia's En + Group, which manages businessman Oleg Deripaska's aluminium and hydropower businesses, plans to close a deal with Glencore to convert its stake in aluminium producer Rusal into En + by the end of the first quarter, En + Chief Executive Maxim Sokov told Reuters.

Alaska, by contrast, gets close to 4 percent of its electricity from renewables, excluding 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-...]

Instead, the 333 - mile Champlain Hudson Express line proposed by Transmission Developers would carry Canadian hydropower to New York City through a pair of five - inch underground copper cables.

Greenport Electric isn't listed but its rates, which like Rockville Centre's and Freeport's are subsidized by cheap hydropower from New York Power Authority, are on par with those two Long Island municipal utilities.

MASSENA - Legislation was signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today that may help spur economic development in St. Lawrence County through the sale of a block of hydropower from the St. Lawrence - Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project.

Supporters say that shifting to the new regulations will provide for a more natural water level and boost hydropower, but is opposed by elected officials who represent the southern shore of the lake.

Chaired by northern New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of the 21st district, the panel held a hearing Monday on the challenges and opportunities for millennials in the hydropower industry.

The plan calls for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels; lowering energy consumption in buildings 23 percent from 2012 levels, and generating half of the state's electricity from solar, wind, hydropower and biomass by 2030.

Straddling the border lands of the Eastern Himalayas between Kachin state in Myanmar and Yunnan province in China the Myanmar snub - nosed monkey has been seriously threated by hunting and wildlife trade, illegal logging and forest destruction linked to hydropower schemes and associated infrastructure development.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

Other technologies — including geothermal, marine energy and small hydropower — received one - year extensions to their 30 percent ITC under the joint spending and tax measures passed Friday and expected to be signed by President Obama this week.

Although Bristol Bay is targeted for mining and hydropower, it is currently surrounded by mostly undisturbed habitat, with no dams or hatcheries.

Hydropower capacity is targeted to grow about 6 percent a year to reach 290 gigawatts by 2015, nuclear capacity to quadruple to 58 gigawatts by 2020 and gas - fired capacity to double to 56 gigawatts by 2015.

There, billions of dollars have been spent since 1950 to save salmon endangered largely by the environmental impact of hydropower.

The comments appeared to confirm what geologists, biologists and environmentalists had been warning about for years: building a massive hydropower dam in an area that is heavily populated, home to threatened animal and plant species, and crossed by geologic fault lines is a recipe for disaster.

Rising sea levels, loss of water in the Great Lakes, and reduced hydropower were among the injuries alleged by the plaintiffs; the lawsuits have since been combined, and two states have dropped out since the original suit was filed.

Verdant, which operates its kinetic (non-dam) hydropower project in the East River under a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), plans to by the end of the year apply for a FERC pilot commercial license that would allow the company to create a field of up to 40 underwater turbines with up to 1.5 megawatts of capacity.

It will likely shrink another 40 percent by the 2040s, the report said, seriously stressing water supplies, agricultural production and hydropower.

China, already the world's largest hydropower user, plans to add another 120 gigawatts by 2015 — a crucial step toward greening 15 percent of its power mix by the end of the decade.

Ultimately, the judge's rulings could have a profound affect on the Northwest region by altering the way it manages hydropower, which provides cheap electricity to millions of residents and businesses and a river transportation system for farmers to ship their goods to international markets.

Early - phase outfits in Iceland, Green Earth Data and GreenQloud, for example, both claim to offer 100 percent renewable energy, powered by the country's abundant geothermal and hydropower sources.

While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be economically and environmentally competitive options and can contribute significantly to the rising demand.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

In Kayah, Karen, and Shan states, large scale hydropower and mining projects implemented by foreign corporations in cooperation with the Burmese army continue to displace local ethnic communities.

Beginning with the basics, Hydropower, by Diane Bailey, explains how we use water to create energy around the world.

Among these include covering energy needs from renewable sources, which Costa Rica has successfully achieved by about 95 %, mostly with hydropower, followed by geothermal, wind, solar and biomass sources.

Now, Bhutan plans to build an array of new dams and quickly ramp up hydropower capacity to 10,000 MW by 2020 — a goal that is becoming increasingly controversial.

Only about 12 GW of the nation's reliably available capacity of 160 GW is currently met by renewables, which includes wind power to a minor extent, and is mostly hydropower.

By necessity, conventional firm capacity generators: nuclear, biomass, natural gas, hydropower, etc. will remain the primary suppliers of electricity to the New England grid well into the future.

Historically, the tribal experience with increasing energy demands here has been catastrophic: tribes along the Missouri River were flooded by dams constructed to provide hydropower and flood control benefits for downstream communities.

Despite this, hydropower will remain the largest source of renewable electricity generation in 2022 under the IEA's forecast, followed by wind, solar PV and bioenergy.