Sentences with phrase «gigawatts of hydropower»

China last year brought online a record 31 gigawatt of hydropower.

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The paper discusses the potential for hydropower sources in the region (30 gigawatts), migratory patterns of its fish, the importance of fish - friendly technology, and further studies needed to understand hydro's impact on fish of the Mekong.

China, already the world's largest hydropower user, plans to add another 120 gigawatts by 2015 — a crucial step toward greening 15 percent of its power mix by the end of the decade.

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.

The U.S. has the capacity to store some 22 gigawatts in pumped hydropower, about 2 percent of U.S. generating capacity.

While the country is scaling up its renewable energy, up to 15 percent of its energy needs by 2020, or 20 gigawatts (coal currently provides 67 percent of the country's energy), by 2020, the country wants to nearly triple its hydropower capacity, to 300 gigawatts.