Sentences with phrase «conventional hydropower»

It's fourth in net electricity generation, fourth in conventional hydropower generation, and first in terms of solar and geothermal energy production.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

In the U.S., large - scale renewable projects plus conventional hydropower are expected to account for 14 percent of total electricity generation in 2016, a 9 percent rise from 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

Hydropower does exceed nonhydro renewable generation in several states, particularly in the Northwest, where in 2013 conventional hydropower accounted for 69 % and 56 % of total electricity generation in Washington and Oregon, respectively.

While FERC's conventional hydropower licenses can last 40 to 50 years, pilot licenses cut that down to five years.

Not exact matches

«Together, international energy trade and strategic siting can enable African countries to pursue «no - regrets» wind and solar that can compete with conventional generation technologies like coal and hydropower,» Wu said.

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.

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.

Hydropower — both conventional and pumped storage hydropower — is crucial to sustaining our transition to a decarbonHydropower — both conventional and pumped storage hydropower — is crucial to sustaining our transition to a decarbonhydropower — is crucial to sustaining our transition to a decarbonized grid.

Fossil fuels and large hydropower accounted for only 4 percent of energy access financing, showing again that investing in large, conventional energy projects is not an effective way to increase energy access.

Growing environmental consciousness and reducing dependency on conventional resources are projected to foster global small hydropower market size growth.

As indicated earlier, the fully allocated cost of electricity produced from non-hydro «renewable» sources such as wind and solar energy is almost always higher than the cost of electricity produced from «conventional» sources (coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower).

using the more «conventional» energy sources such as coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy or hydropower?

Canadian electricity generation in 2000 totaled 567.1 billion kilowatt hours (bkwh), of which 60 % was hydropower, 26 % was conventional thermal power (oil, gas, and coal), 12 % was nuclear generation, and 1 % was derived from other renewable sources.