Sentences with phrase «hydro generation»

Represented clients in merger - acquisition - divestiture and financing transactions - many with nine figure values involving hard rock minerals - oil and gas - coal - oil refining - hydro generation - coal generation - and railroad properties.

The Anishinaabe Nation is seeking judicial review related to five Ontario hydro generation plants in northwestern Ontario, saying the province failed to consult with it about the impact proposed changes to the plants and their output would have on their way of life.

En + Group holds a 47.41 % stake in the world's largest alumina and aluminium producer UC RUSAL, and owns EuroSibEnergo PLC (one of the world's largest hydro generation companies and largest Russian independent power producer) and SMR (one of the world's largest ferromolybdenum producers).

The AEMO document stated «Historically, South Australia imported electricity from Victoria, however from 2006 - 07 a combination of factors including more expensive interstate supply, dryer / drought conditions affecting interstate hydro generation supplies, and an increase in wind farm construction in South Australia led to changes in the South Australian supply mix.

Hart and Jacobson determined the least cost mix for California of wind, solar, geothermal and hydro generation.

An unusual combination of warm and wet weather in the second half of January and early February melted low - elevation snow, filling hydroelectric dam reservoirs on the Columbia and Snake Rivers and boosting hydro generation.

I recall that originally the wind guys felt they could get a 15 % penetration because the base load coal and hydro generation had excess capacity to cover them when the wind was not blowing.

I suspect a key reason is we have abundant hydro generation, which lessens the need to build backup gas generation.

Klein is a recognized industry leader in the research, development and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy with noteworthy projects in energy storage, smart grid, demand response, and tidal, geothermal, wind, solar and low impact hydro generation.

It is a myth that equal amounts of additional power, such as natural gas or hydro generation, must be built solely to manage the variability of wind energy generation.

For the first time, wind generation surpassed hydro generation in California, doing so in both February and March of 2014.

Not exact matches

Wind generation in Scotland increased by 34 percent, while hydro was up 9 percent.

Hydro - Quebec, meanwhile, would combine its extensive hydro - based generation assets with NB Power's thermal - based ones, creating a more efficient and synergistic utility with increased capacity to sell to the lucrative markets in the northeastern United States.

But we also have an opportunity to enhance our competitiveness in next - generation automotive technology and advanced trains and jets, and could take the lead in emerging markets with solar photovoltaics, bioenergy, unconventional hydro and energy efficiency.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

According to the Power Ministry, the expected load shedding may result from their decision to rest some hydro plants, which will reduce the power generation capacity.

However, as these rivers originate in India, India can use them for irrigation, transport and hydro - power generation.

The official said that low level water levels at the country's hydro thermal stations also contributed to the drop in generation.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

Also, the length of the monsoon is relevant for planning hydro power generation since the rains are necessary to fill the dams and reservoirs.

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.

«In the future, the importance of hydro projects won't be on power generation, but on water management,» Yang explained.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

Audi says that it has incorporated hydro - formed steel and aluminium to construct the bodyshell and panels that has led to a 120 kg weight reduction over the current generation A4.

Southern Company, an electric utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources.

Target 2: Increase Non-Fossil Energy to 11.4 % of Total Supply: Though overall power demand growth fell in 2012, the share of Chinese electricity generated from renewables increased from 15.7 % to 19.4 % thanks to a recovery in hydro and increased wind generation.

Its possible to completely convert fossil fuels generation to wind and solar, or hydro etc, and upgrade lines networks for about 1.5 % of a countries gdp per year, spread over approximately 20 years.

According to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst with the IEA and one of the report's authors, «19 % of global electricity generation is taken for lighting — that's more than is produced by hydro or nuclear stations, and about the same that's produced from natural gas.»

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

The four scientists call for an increase in ambition in the deployment of improved light - water reactors, with the accelerated development of advanced fission technologies to accompany planned increases in solar, wind and hydro power generation.

Germany has been increasing its renewable energy generation from 6.6 % (mostly existing hydro) in 2000, when the EEG law took effect, to 23.4 % of total generation, at the end of 2013.

We know about adverse health effects, and property devaluation, and wasted subsidies that have increased hydro rates, of excess generation of power that has to «exported» to others (we pay them to take it), of injurious affection and the list goes on.

Renewable electricity generation (excluding hydro) is estimated to account for 3.3 percent of global electricity generation.

Power generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Australia.

Large hydropower projects added a net 19 GW to the world's generation capacity last year; small hydro projects added just under 3 GW net.

If we want more renewables, lets stick to renewable generation that is dispatchable and scalable... you know... the useful stuff: hydro, biomass, rooftop solar, tidal, etc..

«Pumped storage hydro can fill the generation gap during prolonged low wind periods.»

There simply is not the available undeveloped capacity to grow hydro a great deal more, and certainly not to maintain it's proportion of total electricity generation.

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.

Projected proportion of electricity generated by hydro / total world electricity generation, every 5 years to 2040 is as follows: 2010 16.8 % 2015 16.3 % 2020 16.7 % 2025 16.0 % 2030 15.7 % 2035 15.7 % 2040 16.0 %

For example, with the higher - EROI sources — hydro, wind, and coal — other considerations like generation intermittency and regulatory environments become more important than the amount of energy needed to get a return, Inman tells Carbon Brief.

It can come in three forms: hydroelectric generation, renewable resources, or renewables «firmed - up» with hydro in blended contracts.

And, apart from rooftop solar, there is virtually no renewable generation in the state apart from some bagasse and some hydro.

«Outside the OECD, coal generation in China, the centre of global coal demand, decreased in 2015 due to a reduction in electricity demand, coupled with an increased generation from hydro and nuclear.1 Despite the decrease in generation in 2015, 52 GW of coal - fired generation capacity was added in China in 2015, and roughly 150 GW is currently under construction.

This is a regulation from EPA that forces states to reduce fossil fuel use in their electricity generation in favor of «renewables» such as wind and solar (but not hydro, which most environmental groups dislike, of course), whether they want to or not.

Here's the history of additions to electric generation capacity by renewables excluding big hydro, along with successive WEO projections:

Power storage remains a problem but wind, hydro and photo - voltaic generation is costly but very possible.

Inclusion of distributed solar PV generation, which EIA estimates at roughly 10 billion kilowatthours in 2013, modestly accelerates the timing of the crossover between hydro and nonhydro renewable generation (see AEO2014).

In order to address the intermittency associated with the heavy proposed use of wind power, the report proposes to deploy offshore turbines dispersed in locations all around the country (when there is little windspeed in one location, there is likely to be high windspeed in other locations), and implement backup generation consisting of biogas, biomass, hydro, and imports to manage the remaining variability.