Sentences with phrase «generate hydroelectricity»

Although hydroelectric dams are estimated to constitute 30 % — 62 % of global impoundments (Lehner et al. 2011, Varis et al. 2012), 82 % of reservoirs with known uses in our GHG database had the capacity to generate hydroelectricity (supplemental figure S7).

«Climate change will affect our agricultural productivity, our forests, fisheries, the types of pests and diseases we face, the frequency of extreme weather events, and even our capacity to generate hydroelectricity ---- and policymakers must make decisions in the face of all of these.»

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.

A project as ambitious as plugging the Red Sea isn't viewed as an immediate fix, but there is a comparable project underway to dam the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf to exploit the evaporative cycle and influx of seawater to generate vast quantities of hydroelectricity.

Out of its total 35,843 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (3.36 % of the U.S. total), AEP gets 69.0 % from coal, 22.2 % from natural gas, 6.4 % from nuclear, and 2.3 % from hydroelectricity.

This renewable capacity represents about 65 percent of the renewable energy generated annually in Germany — the rest comes from hydroelectricity, biomass and geothermal.

Hydroelectricity generated by large dams had a significantly larger footprint — 315.2 acres per megawatt.

I also wasn't particularly surprised by the correlation between the deployment of hydroelectricity and energy decarbonization, given how much power large dams generate.

Out of its total 11,159 megawatts (MW) of U.S. electric generating capacity in 2005 (1.05 % of the U.S. total), E.ON produces 74.8 % from coal, 22.8 % from natural gas, 1.4 % from oil, and 1.0 % from hydroelectricity.

Out of its total 28,019 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (2.63 % of the U.S. total), Progress Energy produced 39.2 % from natural gas, 28.3 % from coal, 15.9 % from oil, 15.7 % from nuclear, and 0.8 % from hydroelectricity.

Instead of generating power from falling water, power can be used to lift water from a low - level storage to a high - level storage (see Pumped - storage hydroelectricity in Wikipedia).