Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric capacity»

Regional precipitation changes that shape hydroelectric capacity in New York are geographically «smoothed out,» as the watershed driving New York's hydroelectric turbines spans portions of 6 states and Canada.

The Pacific Northwest has enormous hydroelectric capacity, and the variable cost of producing electricity from this capacity is minimal because there is no fuel cost.

(1550 MW of hydroelectric capacity is roughly the equivalent of what a thousand new top - of - the - line wind turbines would be rated at, cumulatively.

However, hydroelectric capacity is not readily scaled up as it is restricted by suitable geography, a constraint that also applies to pumped hydro storage.

And when South Australia's hydroelectric capacity is a whopping big 1.9 megawatts.

The Ontario Government's energy investment priority should be in new gas, nuclear and / or hydroelectric capacity, upgrading existing generating facilities, and in refurbishing transmission grids.

Many regions have little hydroelectric capacity and the abundant water required to make it productive.

In the U.S.'s largest wind area, Texas, there is 6 GW of wind capacity but only 0.5 GW of hydroelectric capacity (with no ability to store electricity).

Because of the significant hydroelectric capacity in the Pacific Northwest, the level of hydroelectric output can have significant price effects throughout the Western Interconnection.

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

We are slated to add another 6,100 megawatts of wind and solar over the next several years that will only serve to exacerbate the surplus baseload problem meaning further dispatching of OPG's hydroelectric capacity.

Not exact matches

Description: Northbrook Carolina Hydro is a portfolio of four run - of - the - river hydroelectric assets in North and South Carolina totaling 12.9 megawatts of nameplate capacity.

Renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric power comprised 53.6 % of all GW capacity of technologies that were installed during 2015.

Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam is the largest operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capaHydroelectric Dam is the largest operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capahydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capacity of 14GW.

This is expected to boost China's renewable energy capacity because financing from polluters can support more wind farms, hydroelectric dams and solar power plants.

This is eight times the capacity of the Aswan Dam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in Paraguay.

The researchers specifically excluded power resources such as nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar as each of these already produce electricity at maximum capacity.

American nuclear power reactors operated that year around the clock at about 90 percent capacity, whereas coal - fired plants operated at about 73 percent, hydroelectric plants at 29 percent, natural gas from 16 to 38 percent, wind at 27 percent, solar at 19 percent, and geothermal at 75 percent.»

«As of 2009, the hydroelectric plant is the third - largest in the world, with 10,200 MW capacity.»

We only have the capacity to produce about 30 % of our electricity from non-carbon emitting fuel sources (primarily nuclear and hydroelectric).

Even hydroelectric power, often criticized for its finite production capacity, has shown promise in India.

The size of hydroelectric power generators also varies; in fact, the largest plant in the United States is the hydroelectric plant at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, with a capacity of 7,079 MW.

On the other hand; wind, geothermal, bio-gas and hydroelectric power new and efficient technologies are also improving significant; and lager capacity and efficient wind and water turbines have been improvised and are adding to the total world's energy in supply.

Additionally, hydroelectric facilities along the river generate more than 4,200 megawatts3 of generating capacity helping to meet the power needs of the West and offset use of fossil fuels.

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Since turbines are the most expensive part of a hydroelectric dam, placing over 11,000 MW of capacity in a run - of - river dam without sufficient river flow to use most of the turbines for much of the year makes the dam economically unviable.

China to add wind power capacity August 15, 2005 In recent years China has significantly expanded its interests in renewable energy sources including wind, solar, biofuels, tidal, and small hydroelectric dams.

In particular, the enormous Itaipú hydroelectric dam, a 50:50 project jointly owned with neighbouring Paraguay, was extended to 14GW capacity in 2006/2007.

EIA provides the following chart of capacity factors for hydroelectric, wind, and solar power worldwide.

Although hydroelectric dams are estimated to constitute 30 % — 62 % of global impoundments (Lehner et al. 2011, Varis et al. 2012), 82 % of reservoirs with known uses in our GHG database had the capacity to generate hydroelectricity (supplemental figure S7).

, wind farms covering 6 percent of the entire land surface of the 48 contiguous states, an outrageous and unrealistic increase in ecologically harmful hydroelectric power, and a build out of electricity generation capacity that hurtles along at 14 times the average rate of capacity expansion in the past half - century.

Decreasing summer stream flows will reduce hydroelectric generation capacity, which currently accounts for 70 percent of the region's electricity supply.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

The «other» category contains (relatively) small electricity - producing resources such as tires and waste heat, as well as net capacity changes for hydroelectric and biomass energy resources.

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.

After California's San Onofre nuclear plant closed, and the state suffered droughts that reduced hydroelectric output, natural gas - fired power increased from 45 to 61 percent of the state's electricity generation even as wind and solar capacity soared.

As of October 2014, Mongolia's total installed capacity for power generation from all sources stood at 1.09 GW, 90 % of it in CHP (combined heat and power) coal - fired plants, with 2 % in hydroelectric, 2 % in diesel, and 6 % in non-hydro renewables, mostly wind.

South Consolidated Hydroelectric Unit constructed in 1981 on the South Canal 35 foot drop 1,400 kW capacity Crosscut Hydroelectric Plant began commercial operation in 1915 on the Crosscut Canal 116 foot drop 3,000 kW capacity Arizona Falls, a low - head hydropower system, is the Valley's newest hydroelectric generatHydroelectric Unit constructed in 1981 on the South Canal 35 foot drop 1,400 kW capacity Crosscut Hydroelectric Plant began commercial operation in 1915 on the Crosscut Canal 116 foot drop 3,000 kW capacity Arizona Falls, a low - head hydropower system, is the Valley's newest hydroelectric generatHydroelectric Plant began commercial operation in 1915 on the Crosscut Canal 116 foot drop 3,000 kW capacity Arizona Falls, a low - head hydropower system, is the Valley's newest hydroelectric generathydroelectric generation station /

River flow hydroelectric stations are those with small or no reservoir capacity Hydroelectric power is a renewable energy It is renewable because the water used will evaporate and eventually precipitate to refill the rhydroelectric stations are those with small or no reservoir capacity Hydroelectric power is a renewable energy It is renewable because the water used will evaporate and eventually precipitate to refill the rHydroelectric power is a renewable energy It is renewable because the water used will evaporate and eventually precipitate to refill the reservoir Is /

Animation Equations Power Production Itaipu Hydroelectric power station with a capacity of 12,600 MWe is the largest power plant in the world.

Although resource potential quantifies maximum feasible capacity additions, EIA's AEO2014 Reference case also considers market and policy hurdles that can limit actual development of a new hydroelectric power plant.

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In the Pacific Northwest, abundant hydroelectric resources have been augmented in recent years with significant wind capacity.

But meeting the world's total energy demands in 2030 with renewable energy alone would take an estimated 3.8 million wind turbines (each with twice the capacity of today's largest machines), 720,000 wave devices, 5,350 geothermal plants, 900 hydroelectric plants, 490,000 tidal turbines, 1.7 billion rooftop photovoltaic systems, 40,000 solar photovoltaic plants, and 49,000 concentrated solar power systems.

Pumped - storage hydroelectric plant: A plant that usually generates electric energy during peak load periods by using water previously pumped into an elevated storage reservoir during off - peak periods when excess generating capacity is available to do so.

By «green power» states I mean those with strong nuclear and hydroelectric power capacities, or which can add to them (exemplified by states shown in the list above), with wind and solar as backup.

While other transient and long - term energy storage schemes are being considered, Norway's hydroelectric turbines — because of their huge capacity — will likely account for the brunt of it.

Site C is the third hydroelectric dam on the Peace and, when completed, would provide 1100 MW of electrical capacity, producing 5100 GW hours of electricity annually which is apparently enough to power the equivalent of 450,000 homes per year in B.C..