Sentences with phrase «conventional hydro»

Onshore, high - pressure water is converted to electrical power using proven, conventional hydro - electric generators.

Building a pumped hydro system results in much less environmental damage than building conventional hydro because the storages can be much smaller and pumped hydro can be recharged as often as needed.

Unlike conventional hydro, pumped storage plants can function as energy storage.

Other conventional hydro plants are run - of - river, meaning they have no reservoir and their generating output is subject to changes in river flows.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

Having previously successfully developed large - scale hydro and geothermal IPPs using conventional legal agreements (such as geothermal concessions modeled on oil and gas production sharing contracts), Indonesia was also developing smaller renewable projects through regulated feed - in tariffs.

«Since intermittent renewables by definition can not provide a reliable supply of electricity, they must be backed up by conventional fuel sources such as coal, gas, hydro or nuclear.»

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The 99.33 % of wind power output that went AWOL for hours (at various times, 3 days straight) was, instead, all supplied by conventional generators; the vast bulk of which came from coal and gas plants, with the balance coming from hydro.

It will look into what the outcome is going to be to you, should you go off - grid and it will look into what is likely to happen to the grid, to the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, and to conventional power generators and to centralised renewables (such as wind, hydro, and big solar) should many people go off - grid.

Conventional pumped hydro systems use vertically separated reservoirs to utilize the power of water and gravity; during times of low demand (off peak), water is pumped using excess energy from the lower to the upper reservoir.

Ross has led teams advising on all types of renewable energy technology including solar, wind (on and offshore), biomass, biofuels, anaerobic digestion, waste to energy, wave and tidal energy, geothermal and hydro as well as conventional power.