Sentences with phrase «cheap hydro power»

Other Bitcoin miners have moved to places with cheap hydro power like Iceland or Manitoba, but Australia can't seem to dig or burn enough coal, and is still investing in new mines.

Price difference makes profitable to export cheaper hydro power from the Nordic market to Germany, which relies more on coal and gas to generate power.

As we put in cheaper hydro power we will adjust the tariff to reflect the cheaper power we are getting.»

Not exact matches

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

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

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

It is one of the few hydro - power stations in Australia to include pumped hydro in which water is pumped from the lower Jounama Pondage to the upper Talbingo Reservoir when electricity is plentiful and cheap, so that it can flow back down through the turbines to generate more electricity at times of higher demand.

The four other mainland states have cheap (and dirty) coal and the remaining state, Tasmania, has plentiful hydro - power.

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.

For pumped hydro to be viable it needs cheap, reliable power supply in off peak times (every day of the year).

Pumped hydro is enormously expensive and much more expensive if used for storing energy from intermittent renewable energy supplies as distinct from reliable baseload supplies when power is cheap (midnight to 6 am) for release during the day, regularly almost every day of the year.

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

NOW the very people who opposed the building of a hydro - electric facility are demanding that we should build such facilities and shut down the power plants that they previously said were better and cheaper.

And if those don't rock your world, there's the fact that hydro power is 80 % underutilized in the USA, and it is far cheaper than coal or oil.

FACT CHECK: wind power contributes about 6 % of Ontario's electricity supply, at four times the cost of other power sources; wind power is not the «lowest - cost» option — the turbines are cheap to build but there are many other costs associated with wind power and its intermittency; wind power can not replace hydro and nuclear — the fact is, coal was replaced by nuclear and natural gas, a fossil - fuel - based power source.

When combined with some of the good ideas from Obama's speech, like greater reliance on clean, cheap hydro - power and increased energy development on public lands such a structure would constitute a substantive and authentically conservative alternative that has been lacking in recent years.

According to a panel of development experts, sub-Saharan Africa will need to power its factories, hospitals, schools, and other foundational infrastructure with cheap and reliable sources of electricity, and, at least in the near future, that will likely come from hydro and fossil fuels.

While wind power is important, cheap and mature, it requires other sources to balance and firm its power, for example concentrating solar thermal and hydro.

I know of no new development of pumped - storage hydro in Australia aimed specifically at balancing the grid since wind power has become a major component of our power supply; apparently using gas - fired power stations to fill in the gaps when the wind isn't blowing are a cheaper option in the short - term.

Already known to be attracting Chinese miners diversifying away from their home market with its cheap hydro - power electricity and cold climate,...