Sentences with phrase «from hydropower»

Pakistan generates about 45 % of its electricity from hydropower on the Indus River.

Worldwide, 19 percent of electricity comes from hydropower.

Electricity generation from hydropower, historically the largest source of renewable electricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitation patterns.

More than half of the United States» renewable energy came from hydropower in 2013, representing 7 percent of the nation's total power generation that year.

«Within a few decades, a geographically diverse country such as the United States might get 30 percent of its electricity from sunshine, 20 percent from hydropower, 20 percent from windpower, 10 percent from biomass, 10 percent from geothermal energy, and 10 percent from natural - gas - fired cogeneration.»

This push to demolish large dams on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest, which got 70 percent of its electricity supply from hydropower as of 2009, has been criticized by influential policymakers, such as House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R - Wash.).

Proposed changes to the way countries» climate budgets are calculated aim to take greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs into account, but some experts worry that they will not go far enough.

Those electricity imports helped to stave off potential blackouts as electricity production in the Pacific Norwest suffered due to a drought reducing output from hydropower in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Because information regarding large dams is restricted under the Chinese State Secrets Act, Kibler modeled the potential effects of the four large dams using publically - available information from hydropower companies, development agencies, and academic literature.

Whether it's offsets from no - till farming that would have happened anyway from the Chicago Climate Exchange or offsets from hydropower dams in China that would have been built anyway under the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, it's all a bit of a shell game at present.

Chinese studies estimate that in Tibet alone 1,800 - billion kWh of electricity could be generated from hydropower.

In California, natural gas - fired capacity is often used to help offset lower levels of generation from hydropower facilities.

Across much of Latin America, hydroelectric plants are the main source of electricity.5 Around 82 percent of the electricity generated in Peru in 2002 came from hydropower.23

About 70 % of Serbia's electricity comes from coal plants, with the rest from hydropower.

It procures its electricity from hydropower off the Hoover Dam, power purchase agreements and the wholesale market (it was the first out - of - state utility to join CAISO).

Until the 1960s, hydrogen from hydropower - based electrolysis in Norway was used to make ammonia — a key ingredient for agricultural fertilizers.

According to the Institute's report, between October 2011 and October 2014, California's ratepayers spent $ 1.4 billion more for electricity than in average years because of the drought - induced shift from hydropower to natural gas.

An analysis of the impact of water scarcity on the electricity sector in the United States demonstrates how water scarcity shifts electricity production from hydropower to natural gas, resulting in increased carbon dioxide emissions.

The bulk of its power generation comes from hydropower thanks to a large river system and heavy tropical rainfalls.

When it comes to the greenhouse gases emitted from hydropower reservoirs though, some new research published in Nature Geoscience shows that concern may be overblown.

Portugal's renewable electricity production (mostly from hydropower and wind energy) exceeded monthly consumption in March.

As it stands, 71 % of all renewable energy produced comes from hydropower alongside 68 % of all GoO cancellations in 2017.

The company saw greater contributions from Hydropower and other sources, offsetting lower nuclear usage.

The Chinese government has expressed concern at the amount of electricity used by bitcoin miners, especially from hydropower stations which were intended to deliver low - cost or free electricity to low - income rural areas in the country.

The mining unit centred in northern Europe draws its mining power from hydropower and geothermal sources.

In Nepal, glaciers will melt faster and threaten people's access to water and energy supplies from hydropower.

As EcoWatch previously mentioned, the majority of the country's energy comes from hydropower, thanks to a vast river system and abundant rainfall.

The use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar has also grown rapidly in recent years so that generation from these types of renewables is now surpassing generation from hydropower.

Over one third of that will come from hydropower — more than from any other source.

«Despite that many believe our power is generated using fossil fuels from Alberta, most of Canada's electricity mix comes from hydropower and nuclear facilities,» Kennedy says.

Brazil gets 90 % of its energy from hydropower.

Roughly 16 percent of the world's electricity comes from hydropower, most of it from large dams.

This year, 78.26 percent of electricity came from hydropower, 10.29 percent from wind, 10.23 percent from geothermal energy and 0.84 percent from biomass and solar.

Canada, which gets most of its electricity from hydropower and another big chunk from nuclear, already makes 80 percent of its power from carbon - free sources.

Austria generates 70 % of its electricity from hydropower, with many of the larger projects being glacier fed such as Kaprun.

Peru and other countries in Latin America generate a large portion of their electricity from hydropower, which lights up the Palacio de Justicia in Peru's capital city, Lima.

Almost all of that was from hydropower.

As thousands of electric vehicles charge off Oregon's electricity grid — half of which comes from hydropower and renewable resources — Oregon's transportation - related carbon footprint continues to shrink.

Brazil also uses large amounts of biofuels in transport and generates more than 70 % of its electricity from hydropower.

About 17 percent comes from hydropower, much of it from large dams in the northeast.

Already getting 83 percent of its electricity from hydropower, it replaced the remaining 17 percent, which was from fossil fuels and nuclear power, with wind energy purchased from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

Rivers are running at their lowest, and because most of Nepal's electricity comes from hydropower, the country has been suffering power cuts up to 20 hours a day.

And more than half of Scandinavia's energy comes from hydropower.

The energy used to make the limestone suits comes from hydropower and excess heat produced is used in an eel nursery for food production.

Hydro - Quebec, the province's public utility, generates over 95 % of its electricity from hydropower.