Sentences with phrase «hydro plants for»

Albania is trying to increase its thermal generation capacity to cope with increased demand for electricity in the country, which has long depended almost solely on hydro plants for power generation.

Not exact matches

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, said his Ministry had not been shedding power for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plants.

David Youlen, an executive who managed the New York hydropower plants for Reliant and now runs them for Brookfield Asset Management, said those companies have invested $ 33 million to fix their hydro plants in the past three years.

The Varick Street hydroelectric plant in Oswego is one of the Upstate hydro facilities for which Brookfield Asset Management, of Canada, got tax breaks through the Empire Zones program.

On if the improvement of power supply in the country is as a result of raining season or improvement on the part of Discos, Fashola said, «what is interesting is that for the first time in a long time, our gas fired plants and our hydro power plants driven by water have converged together, and when you factor that to the improvement that the Gencos investors have made into their plants and are still making, it explains the improved power supply that you have.»

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

While this trio is scouting out an old hydro plant in hopes of finding a power source for the city, they come face to face with the angry apes.

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.

The tradeoffs for avoiding it in earlier games were not that sophisticated, but they had the option of building solar and hydro plants in lieu of coal, and building public transportation to avoid consumer generated emissions.

In June I heard a report about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the load.

Wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal make me feel warm and fuzzy and want to sign Kumbaya but they are not reliable enough, nor in sufficient quantities to eliminate the need for coal / oil / gas fired power plants.

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India (http://selco-india.com/), and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

Its clean energy portfolio, which accounts for over 18 % of the total equity capacity at end - 2011, includes hydro - electric, solar, wind and biomass plants.

Characterized as the best mechanism for combating climate change, feed - in tariffs act as financial incentives for everyone to produce electricity from green energies such as solar, wind, biogas and run - of - the - river hydro power plants that is fed into the provincial electricity grid.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

A proposed hydro plant in Queensland was one of the very few government - backed projects of any description that appeared to me to be viable (I generally directed assessments of projects for Queensland Office of Cabinet or Treasury); it was scuppered by Green opposition.

The supply is unreliable, although more consistent than wind generation which is notoriously unreliable and thermal, nuclear, or hydro power (if available) is required to carry sufficient reserve in the grid system to compensate for any changes in solar plant output due to any changes in sunlight during the day.

I presume all of the hydro power plans are located inside the country, and all the uranium for fueling the nuclear plants is imported.

For their part, hydro plants take a long time to build and are environmentally contentious.

With nearly 40 % of those investments — $ 199 billion — going to solar, wind farms, biomass, waste - to - energy plants and small hydro - power clean energy projects, it is evident that energy system «diversity» is vital for satisfying current community needs and to address shared concerns for the future.

The 99.33 % of wind power output that went AWOL for hours (at various times, 3 days straight) was, instead, all supplied by conventional generators; the vast bulk of which came from coal and gas plants, with the balance coming from hydro.

In the case of El Hierro, unlike most of the existing pumped storage systems worldwide, the reservoir has been created artificially just for storage purposes, instead of using an existing hydro power plant with a typical dam on a river used to create the reservoir.

Meanwhile, back in January, Chilean authorities received plans from developer Valhalla Energy for a 600MW PV project to be connected to a 300MW pumped hydro energy storage plant.

California has been very self - satisfied about their energy generation for decades, but get their «no coal in Cali» merit badge by importing coal generated electricity from 4 corners power plants in Ariz / NM and by importing PNW hydro power.

«Many hydro plants in China use an artificially low utilisation rate for the calculation of their profitability.

And my real point in # 116 is how CAFE relates to carbon trading and why American taxpayers (or European or Australian taxpayers for that matter) should accept a system of cap and trade that provides subsidies for untold thousands of dubious projects such as building developing world hydro - electric plants that would have been built anyways, or that enriches untold thousands of individuals in cap and trade firms when a simple direct tax would accomplish the same goal more efficiently.

That means living completely on the power budget we get from renewables for everything - taking all the coal and gas plants off the grid, running all of transportation, heating, manufacturing etc with whatever solar, wind, hydro and nuclear we can cobble together.

«We announce to the public that as the Green Party we take up the legal struggle for the Black Sea against planned hydro - electric power plants, unauthorized roads, dams, gold mines and stone quarries.»

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India, and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

On pumped hydro see also the proposals for cliff top seawater tanks http://www.ret.gov.au/energy/Documents/cei/acre-sub/029-ProfessorPeterSeligman.pdf A small test plant exists in Okinawa Japan.

For high penetration renewables for Australia we need to know how much and where the new plant will be built, new transmission requirements, where and how much pumped hydro and how much gas backup for how loFor high penetration renewables for Australia we need to know how much and where the new plant will be built, new transmission requirements, where and how much pumped hydro and how much gas backup for how lofor Australia we need to know how much and where the new plant will be built, new transmission requirements, where and how much pumped hydro and how much gas backup for how lofor how long.

For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whoFor sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whofor that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.

Existing hydro power could be reserved as far as possible for generating in peak consumption periods, reducing the need for gas peaking power plants;

For example, on January 7, 2018, a peak winter demand day, PJM reported 8,096 MW of natural gas plant outages, 6,935 MW of coal outages, 5,913 MW of natural gas supply outages, and 2,807 MW of «other» outages (which includes wind, solar, hydro, and methane units).

Several other counties in the EU, do however have very large hydro capacities (there is 30GW in Norway alone) and some of these reservoirs are now being converted to pumped storage; e.g. Germany's Thuringia State has identified 13 potential sites, including 3 existing dams, for constructing pumped - storage plants that would total 5,130 MW.