Sentences with word «hydroelectric»

Brent Millikan, another of the book's editors, told Mongabay: «The socio - environmental conflicts linked to the planning, licensing and implementation of hydroelectric dam projects in the Tapajós basin — similar to other recent cases, such as Belo Monte on the Xingu river — have been closely associated with chronic violations of human rights and environmental legislation, the undermining of democratic institutions, authoritarianism and, ultimately, rampant corruption.

From National Geographic: This is much more than an academic exercise in a region that's home to one of the largest networks of hydroelectric dams in the United States, a recent boom in wind installations, and state mandates for renewables on the grid.

The Indian government has put large hydroelectric projects on the Indus in Kashmir, and the vast majority of electricity created by these dams is routed south out of the state of Jammu - Kashmir.

According to the plan, the Three Gorges project, built along the Yangtse River, would become the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.

In fact, because of the growth of hydroelectric generation in particular, developing nations like the Kyrgyz Republic, Bhutan, Mozambique, Paraguay and Zimbabwe crowd out the few top - spending developed countries like Iceland, Germany and Finland.

And there are few rivers remaining that can be dammed for hydroelectric power generation.

Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the world's foremost Bitcoin and blockchain experts, says that Bitcoin mining can be used to utilize the excess power produced by hydroelectric plants that otherwise go to waste.

The third veto eliminates the bill's priority for small hydroelectric energy production as a sustainable alternative.

Goupitan, the largest hydroelectric generator in Guizhou province, reportedly produced only 10 percent of its normal output per day, due to shrinking water flows.

The government plans to develop a staggering 48 new hydroelectric power plants by 2020, totaling 42,157 MW of installed power — with more than 80 percent of that capacity slated to come from 18 new dams in the Amazon River Basin.

Tens of thousands of smaller hydroelectric dams exist around the world, and all indications suggest that the number could substantially increase in the future.

The preponderance of hydroelectric capacity on the U.S. side of the border tends to limit the benefits of hydropower trade in that region.

Palo Alto has long owned 25 percent of a huge hydroelectric generating facility in Calaveras County, near Yosemite.

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

In addition to batteries, the researchers considered other technologies for storing renewable energy, such as pumped hydroelectric storage, which uses surplus electricity to pump water to a reservoir behind a dam.

Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, nannies, and medical assistants.

Moreover, Turkey's positive approach to privatisation and extensive privatisation portfolio also provides important investment opportunities in businesses such as hydroelectric plants, mining and energy businesses.

Advising the Republic of Albania in international arbitration under the ICC Rules (seat Paris) concerning claims arising from energy concession contracts and infrastructure projects involving hydroelectric development.

Turkey estimates that there are potential indigenous sources for 246 billion kilowatt - hours (kWh) per year of electric power generation (105 billion kWh from lignite, 16 billion kWh from hard coal, and 125 billion kWh from hydroelectric resources).

To date, emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs have not been taken into account in assessments of national emissions of greenhouse gases.

The investments allowed in I - 1631 are «technology neutral» and could cover anything from pumped hydroelectric energy storage, through electric buses or energy efficiency, to any projects that «yield or facilitate verifiable reductions in pollution.»

With hydroelectric generation included, the total was more than half of all generation.

Other forms of energy, in turn, received government assistance including hydroelectric dams built during the 1930s with federal financing, tax breaks for coal companies beginning in 1932 and the nuclear industry's federal research monies beginning in the 1950s.

Washington state, for instance, could make the switch to full renewables relatively quickly, thanks to the fact that more than 70 percent of its current electricity comes from existing hydroelectric sources.

According to the US Energy Information Administration, in 2015 Washington was the leading producer of electricity from hydroelectric sources in the country — which makes the state the nation's top producer of carbon free energy.

(04/20/2010) An auction to build the Belo Monte dam, a massive hydroelectric project in Brazil, is going ahead despite two court - ordered suspensions, both of which have been overturned.

He criticised the Environment Agency for blocking small - scale hydroelectric energy schemes but said the main focus should be on larger solutions.

VICTORIA — Energy Minister Bill Bennett called his own B.C. Liberals cabinet colleagues «a bunch of nervous politicians» who don't even know what the «upper range is yet» on the cost of the proposed Site C hydroelectric project.

Construction law in Nevada may embody improvements of all sizes and complexity from basic, residential work, to enormous, complex projects of hydroelectric impoundment and generation, city planning, and mass transportation.

Run - of - river hydroelectric plant: A low - head plant using the flow of a stream as it occurs and having little or no reservoir capacity for storage.

Normally, they would do so through hydroelectric turbines to generate electricity.

And I will mention that India has a large hydroelectric sector and hydroelectricity works very well in conjunction with wind and solar.

Latvia's plans to build a huge hydroelectric plant at Daugavpils on the Western Dvina river roused a huge joint protest campaign from Latvians and Byelorussians upstream.

Some conventional hydroelectric generators are incorporated into dammed reservoirs, providing them with a relatively reliable supply of water.

Many of these facilities are located near hydroelectric power stations for easy access to power.

Negative prices occurred in the Northwest during the spring and early summer when low - cost hydroelectric generation exceeded local demand by a wide margin.

For example, the resources and potential in a state such as Idaho, where hydroelectric and onshore wind power could provide 60 % of the energy, is much different than Massachussets, where offshore wind could provide almost the same percentage (55 %).

Iran has great hydroelectric potential and no doubt plenty of locations suitable for low cost pumped storage.

In a surprise move, the Brazilian government has announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long criticized by environmentalists and indigenous groups, is ending.

Last year, the subcontinent's annual summer monsoon arrived months late, parching farms and causing widespread blackouts by reducing hydroelectric supplies.