Sentences with phrase «hydro power sources»

Furthermore, steam engines were noisy and produced air pollution, while the low transport efficiency of DC power excluded the use of more distant, clean hydro power sources.

Across Canada, Bullfrog Power's green electricity comes from a blend of wind and low - impact hydro power sourced from new Canadian renewable energy facilities.

Across Canada, Bullfrog's green electricity comes from a blend of wind and low - impact hydro power sourced from new Canadian renewable energy facilities.

Across Canada, Bullfrog Power's green electricity comes from a blend of wind and low - impact hydro power sourced from new Canadian renewable energy facilities, with 50 per cent coming from this region.

Not exact matches

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

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.

Here at home, our water is vital to the provincial economy too, with hydro being our main source for creating the electricity that lights our homes and cities and powers our businesses.

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

She was part of the campaign to end fracking in New York State and has advocated for an end to reliance on fossil fuel and replacing it with sustainable power sources like solar, wind and hydro electric power.

An increasing amount of this power is coming from renewable sources, such as wind, solar and hydro.

First, increase the share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and hydro - power, in the fuel mix and as a result maintain high energy independence.

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.

The energy used to manufacture the carbon fiber at Moses Lake is provided exclusively by locally sourced renewable hydro - electric power, which means it is 100 percent CO2 - free.

By power source, coal generated 33 % of Southern Company's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

Beautiful in their own right, these Falls are compelling for the Spanish love story behind the man - made triumph which also Jose Paronella build Australia's first hydro - electric power source.

Many big cities and towns owe their existence to rivers, either because some waterway provided a transit route, water source, or hydro power for mills in the early days of industrialization.

Nuclear power produces less greenhouse gas [CO2] than any other source, including coal, natural gas, hydro, solar and wind.

However these new developments can be environmentally helpful only in a carefully planned ten year, necessary transition to greener energy supplies from wind, solar, geothermal and hydro electric power sources.

The new project by Falu Energi, Vatten and EcoDC AB will be powered by the local grid in Falun, which is exclusively fed by renewable sources including wind, solar, hydro and a nearby cogeneration plant.

We've reported on the fine efforts of Paul Miskelly to tip a bucket on the well - worn MYTH that — with fans spread far and wide across 4 Australian States (NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and SA)-- the wind will always be blowing somewhere, such that wind power can be considered a substitute for on - demand power sources, like hydro.

While New England is starting to come to its senses (procuring and enhancing sustainable base load sources like hydro and gas) we are also making some foolish choices (blowing over 2 BILLION DOLLARS on wind projects that don't scratch the grid's surface, closing reliable power plants with no reliable generators available to replace them).

On 2013/10/25 Grenatec reported that China has plans to built up to 20 high - capacity, high - voltage power lines across its territory in order to connect its western sun, wind and hydro energy sources with its eastern and southern energy - hungry coastal cities.

Both these sources provide power 24/7 and hydro - power from rivers even provides a maximum in winter when it is most needed.

All of these sources experienced higher average growth rates than mature technologies such as hydro power (0.6 %), solid biofuels (2.6 %) and geothermal (2.3 %).

Although the most recent AIB statistics show that hydro power still is the largest source of renewable electricity available, the fastest increase in consumer uptake is experienced from wind and solar sources.

Here in Colorado, we have wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal power as obvious localized and renewable sources.

The article's quote from the head of the California Energy Commission implied that solar power additions were sufficient to make up for any shortfall in hydro, historically one of the state's biggest energy sources.

Therefore, intermittent renewables are not a suitable source of power for pumped hydro, except in a few special, extraordinary cases --(such as El Heiro island where they have a 700 m high extinct volcano crater providing a large upper reservoir, good wind resource and are replacing high - cost diesel generation.)

Quebec supplies most of its power from hydro sources — with some smaller sources and with wind ramping up to about 10 % of installed capacity.

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017 finds that wind, solar, biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources added 138.5 gigawatts to global power capacity in 2016, up 8 per cent from the 127.5 gigawatts added the year before.

S - 2314 requires that 2.5 % of kWh sold by power suppliers in New Jersey come from «Class I» renewable energy sources, which includes solar energy, wind energy, wave or tidal action, geothermal energy, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, fuel cells using renewable fuels, as well as hydro of 3 MW or less.

I don't know if maintenance of such dams is more difficult than equivalent power generating sources although the possibility of a collapse raises concerns about not just losing hydro electric but substantial risks to population and land.

I wouldn't take any notice of Science Daily as a reliable source on projected future hydro power developments

[Repost] I wouldn't take any notice of Science Daily as a reliable source on projected future hydro power developments

When PG&E is talking about that, they're talking about sources of power that fall underneath the state's renewable portfolio standard, which excludes nuclear and excludes big hydro.

Renewable energy consists of energy produced and / or derived from sources that can be renewed indefinitely, such as hydro -, solar and wind power, or sustainably produced, such as biomass.

FACT CHECK: wind power contributes about 6 % of Ontario's electricity supply, at four times the cost of other power sources; wind power is not the «lowest - cost» option — the turbines are cheap to build but there are many other costs associated with wind power and its intermittency; wind power can not replace hydro and nuclear — the fact is, coal was replaced by nuclear and natural gas, a fossil - fuel - based power source.

In 2014, more than half of new energy needs in China were met from renewable sources such as hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar power.»

Combining pumped hydro and wind power could make Kangaroo Island a very serious source of electricity, including base - load electricity.

FOr their info hydro power has been the most reliable source of ELECTRICAL ENERGY that there is in the STATE of MAINE!

According to the ISO, in 1990, the region saw nuclear power as the dominant generating source, at 36 %, followed by oil at 34 %, coal at 16 %, hydro at 7 %, natural gas at 6 %, and pumped storage at 1.7 %.

DeSmog is a funded wing of a professional PR group Hoggan4 and Associates (who are paid to promote clients5 like David Suzuki Foundation, ethical funds, and companies that sell alternative energy sources like hydro power, hydrogen and fuel cells.)

Nuclear power plants require enormous amounts of fresh water to operate — they are on rank 3 on the largest water footprint of energy sources after hydro - electric power (obviously) and shortly behind coal — leaving all other energy sources way behind, including gas, wind, solar, etc..

Sixty - one percent of Canada's electric power is generated from hydro, 26 percent from thermal and 12 percent from nuclear energy sources.

It's pricing structure idiotically treated wholesale transactions in electricity by state public utilities, whose power generation base is overwhelmingly hydro - based, as if their power source was entirely COAL based, and punished them accordingly.

Then they can focus on supporting our most powerful energy sources — coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro - power — in order to end the scourge of energy poverty that afflicts over one billion people across the world.»

The limitation with hydro and other power sources like tidal is their distance from the market.

China relies heavily on coal for electricity, is pushing hydro power and nuclear as major alternative sources of energy.

Leading the world green electricity race are 1) Iceland and 1) Norway, both generating a full 100 % of their electricity from green sources — Norway gets 99 % from hydro and 1 % from other renewable sources of energy; Iceland has, as many people know, a good deal of geothermal power (27 %), with hydro making up the remaining 73 %.