Sentences with phrase «from large hydropower»

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43North has been the single largest recipient of a special fund created to ensure Western New York gets its fair share of profits from the sale of hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston.

For one, Burlington, Vt. — a city of 42,000 residents and the largest town in the state — produces more power than it uses from biomass, wind, solar and hydropower.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

«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.

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

Since 1995, the Rosebud Sioux and other COUP tribes have committed to the utility - scale development of tribal wind resources on their reservations (estimated in the hundreds of gigawatts of potential), and the integration of large - scale distributed tribal wind generation with diminishing reliance on hydropower from federal transmission grids.

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

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.

Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large hydropower projects.

Brazil, the second - largest producer of hydropower worldwide, gets 86 percent of its electricity from water resources.

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.).

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.

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.

Hydropower, which historically has been the largest source of renewable electricity generation, has also lost share, falling from 34 % of non ‐ fossil electricity generation in 1997 to 19 % in 2016.

Emerging countries are building a large number of hydroelectric facilities and global production of electricity from hydropower will double over the next couple of decades as they come online.

Some community members would like a larger measure of modernity, beyond what they get from a small, recently installed hydropower system and a few small solar panels.

As the fourth largest economy in the world, Germany is able to reach 90 % of their overall total electricity demand using mostly renewable power from solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass energy sources.

 It has the largest fleet of hydropower (not all completely eco-friendly, admittedly), and last year, it leap - frogged India to claim fourth spot globally in terms of total installed wind power capacity. It is among the top three solar cell manufacturers on an annual basis, and its domestic solar market will benefit from very recently announced solar subsidies for roof top solar applications (see previous post).

And the Moses Lake plant — one of the largest CFRP plants on earth — draws its energy from locally - sourced hydropower.

Xiaoxi is one of at least 11 Chinese large hydropower projects from which RWE was buying credits.

The US has over 2,000 hydropower plants which supplies a 96 % share (in total) or about 50 % from clean usage (or a tad higher) of the total US renewable energy sources making it the largest.