Peru's overall demand for electricity is projected to increase an average of 4 percent each year between 2002 and 2030.23 Continued glacier retreat could create critical conditions between 2015 and 2025, affecting water supplies needed for 60 percent of the population and
for hydroelectricity generation.20, 10,22
The City of Eugene has developed and is implementing strategies include increasing water conservation; increasing investment in the urban forest; removing essential services from the 100 - year flood zone; and increasing energy efficiency to reduce demand
for hydroelectricity, a resource that is expected to decline with climate change; conducting a food security assessment
A man argues with a woman, insisting that they must tear down her family's chapel for boards to construct a water wheel
for hydroelectricity production.
In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available
for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.
Not exact matches
Renewable energy sources, including wind, geothermal, solar and
hydroelectricity, accounted
for one - fifth of total electricity generated in the first quarter of 2017, according to the Energy Information Administration — and it's expected to continue growing.
Those interventions primarily involve dams that take water
for irrigation or
hydroelectricity, or to supply cities.
Turkey has been building dams upstream on the two rivers
for irrigation and
hydroelectricity.
Of the 12 transmission corridors
for air pollution control, only three are planning to integrate renewables: Two in northern China will transmit a hybrid of wind and coal power, and one in the south will deliver
hydroelectricity.
But within a couple of years, the rapid construction of non-carbon wind and solar systems made up
for San Onofre's lost electricity, and natural gas use — excluding excess natural gas burned to make up
for lost
hydroelectricity due to the drought — dropped again.
Impacts of California's Five - Year (2012 - 2016) Drought on
Hydroelectricity Generation — This comprehensive assessment of the costs to California of lost hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electri
Hydroelectricity Generation — This comprehensive assessment of the costs to California of lost
hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electri
hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels
for electricity generation.
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.
An enourmous storage tank
for wind power, the reservoir produces
hydroelectricity when the winds fail.
After being heavily lobbied, however, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized imported power, including
hydroelectricity, as an important way
for states to comply with the new federal emission rules.
In the same 2014 Ipsos survey, 66 percent agreed that «renewable sources of energy such as
hydroelectricity, solar and wind can not on [their] own meet the rising global demand
for energy.»
South America: Brazil has been suffering from severe drought
for several years now, and impacts extend to Colombia and Venezuela, which are suffering from water shortages, lost
hydroelectricity, and agricultural failures.
China is home to nearly two - thirds of the bitcoin hashrate with mining operations rampant in the Sichuan province and the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia and Tibet that provide cheap
hydroelectricity and cooler temperatures
for the energy - intensive process of mining cryptocurrency.