Sentences with phrase «from hydropower dams»
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.
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Now, to foster a less confrontational way of advancing projects, the hydropower industry, environmental and human - rights organizations, and representatives from banks and governments have negotiated a mechanism for evaluating, and perhaps mitigating, the impact of dams before they are built.
Released on 16 June in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol provides a method for assessing dams in all phases, from development to operation.
«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But the dorado, which can grow to more than 2 meters in length, is disappearing from those waters, and scientists blame two hydropower dams that Brazil erected a decade ago on the Madeira River.
Remote dams around the world already deliver hydropower via HVDC lines, including a 1,480 - kilometer (920 - mile) link that has carried energy from James Bay in northern Quebec to New England since 1990.
«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»
Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.
In addition to providing hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell stores water from the upper basin states and releases it into downstream Lake Mead to ensure the upper basin states meet their obligations under the 1922 compact.
Roughly 16 percent of the world's electricity comes from hydropower, most of it from large dams.
California's Energy Imbalancing Market is a strategy to buy cheap out - of - state hydropower from federal dams to replace the government - induced high price for natural gas peaker power as a result of shifting to green power.
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.
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.).
The Myitsone Dam, a 6,000 megawatt hydropower project, was slated to be built on the critical watersheds of the Irrawaddy River, displacing 18,000 people from nearly 50 villages and submerge their cultural heartland.
About 17 percent comes from hydropower, much of it from large dams in the northeast.
Hydropower projects encompass dam projects with reservoirs, run - of - river and in - stream projects and range from small to large scale.
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).
Mechanical Energy Due to gravity Hydropower from dams Tides Due to Waves Surface Currents Underwater Currents Hydroelectric Power Unlike steam powerplants, work instead of heat is directly available.