Sentences with phrase «hydro capacity»

It now has about 200,000 MW of hydro capacity.

But please keep in mind that Seattle is one of the few major U.S. cities with enough hydro capacity for it to matter.

According to the Canadian Hydropower Association, Canada still has enough hydro capacity to more than double current output.

In areas where abundant hydro capacity and water to power it are not available, the only way to solve this problem is to build very extensive pumped storage facilities to generate «artificial» hydro power.

There is little remaining unused hydro capacity, but the Daugavpils scheme could be revived on a smaller scale.

Hydropower generation resources are clustered unevenly around the country, with over half of U.S. hydro capacity concentrated in three States: Washington, Oregon, and California.

Doubling or tripling world hydro capacity, as this scenario calls for, would also involve trillions of dollars of capital investment.

Taken together, including pumped storage, southern China and the Mekong States have nearly 70,000 MW of rapid - response hydro capacity at their disposal.

France does load - follow with its nukes because it has very little non-nuclear generation, while Sweden probably uses its ample hydro capacity for load - following.

This effectively doubles the cost of supplying electricity since two generating and even transmission fleets must be built and maintained rather than only one — fossil fuel and nuclear generation — except where abundant hydro capacity is available.

Furthermore, academic research shows climate change could severely reduce Brazil's hydro capacity in the coming decades.

«No one believes we can leave the Amazon completely untouched, nor do we believe we can use 100 percent of the hydro capacity,» said Schaeffer.

Hydropower currently accounts for more than 75 percent of Brazil's electric energy generation, but only a little more than a third of the country's hydro capacity has been tapped.

If the hydro capacity is built and if Asia moves ahead with deeper electricity grid interconnection — this large - scale, environmentally - destructive hydro resource can still play a valuable economic and environmental role.

The hydro capacity in the Pacific Northwest generates large amounts of electricity when river flows are high, typically in spring and early summer, a considerably greater amount than is used within Bonneville's territory.

Hydro built before 1998 (which means almost all hydro capacity) is not eligible for RECs, so is not subidised under the LRET.

While the NEM is shielded from this effect somewhat by its hydro capacity, system control in the SWIS has predicted an almost doubling of the LFAS requirement to accommodate new wind farms — particularly Colgar.

SE Australia has excellent potential to greatly expand hydro capacity beyond the 4GW reliable capacity and 2.2 GW pumped hydro capacity, even though average output is only 12,000 GWh / year.