Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric dams built»

At the EVA International, their work will be woven into Guerrero's larger curatorial vision, which is based on Ardnacrusha, a hydroelectric dam built in 1925 in Ireland that represented technological progress and the promise of modernity.

Not exact matches

From 1951 to 1952, China built the giant hydroelectric dam on the Ruhe River with help from the Soviet Union.

Our plan includes an ambitious program of energy retrofits for public and private buildings, upgrades to maximize our existing hydroelectric dams, and an aggressive move toward renewable technologies like wind and solar power.

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

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 ParaguDam 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 Paragudam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in ParaguDam on the River Paraná in Paraguay.

The Indian government is building a hydroelectric dam there.

«Over the past 60 years, a myriad of dams have been built either to provide hydroelectric power, or for irrigation purposes, or as flood protection,» says Bernhard Lehner, a professor in McGill University's Department of Geography and the research director of the project.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

The Lake Arenal hydroelectric dam was built in 1979 and now produces nearly 18 % of the country's total electricity.

The Costa Rican Electrical Institute (ICE) was building the hydroelectric dam to create the Arenal reservoir — now one of the country's most important sources of electric energy.

Since the 1970s, when plans were first conceived to build a massive hydroelectric dam along the Xingu river in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the forces of development have had to contest with unyielding voices of protest --

Moreover, Ethiopia — never enamored of the agreement — has announced plans to build a huge hydroelectric dam on its branch of the Nile that would reduce the water flow to Egypt even more.

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On the one side are entrenched business and political interests dead - set on building a massively impactful hydroelectric dam, unmoved by the social, environmental, and cultural upheavals the project entails.

To build a hydroelectric dam, acres of land must be flooded, which causes decomposition and release of greenhouse gases.

In the meantime, we will need to build more hydroelectric dams and construct «fossil fuel plants with carbon capture and storage» technology.

Rather than offering one - size - fits - all solutions that ignore the differences between places and people — the monocultural landscape of the American lawn, the hydroelectric dam on the salmon run, the factory built to overcome the rules of the natural world — cradle - to - cradle designs are informed by the recognition that all sustainability is local.

Large - scale hydroelectric dams continue to be built in many parts of the world (including China and Brazil), but it is unlikely that new facilities will be added to the existing US fleet in the future.

(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.

Now propose building a hydroelectric dam and watch what happens next.

Hydroelectric power plant Working principle Hydroelectric power plant (Hydel plant) utilizes the potential energy of water stored in a dam built across the river.

After decades of demonstrations and protests against the building of an enormous hydroelectric dam at Belo Monte in the lush Brazilian rainforest, the government has finally given approval to begin construction.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

Under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, India is not permitted to build dams for the purpose of water storage on the Indus, Chenab, and Jhelum rivers, but it is allowed to make limited use of their waters in developing hydroelectric power projects.

Electricity was originally generated at remote hydroelectric dams or by burning coal in the city centers, delivering electricity to nearby buildings and recycling the waste heat to make steam to heat the same buildings.

Whether it was jet fuel or gasoline burnt and exhausted to the atmosphere, coal burnt to produce electricity, or even the millions of cubic meters of concrete used to build hydroelectric dams, the hallmark of twentieth - century development was an increased carbon footprint.

Despite decades of legal and political wrangling to halt the building of a massive hydroelectric dam facility at Belo Monte, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, all seemed lost as earth - movers and construction teams began arriving in drove to the site earlier this year.

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Oregon's first hydroelectric power station, the T.W. Sullivan Dam at Willamette Falls in Oregon City, built in 1888, is of the same general vintage.

The takeaway from this chart is that according to EIA, although natural gas might be the least expensive source of electricity generation if you are building new plants, where coal plants are already built and where hydroelectric dams exist, coal and hydroelectric power is the cheapest.

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.

I think everyone in British Columbia would agree that The Big News this December was the final approval to keep building the Site C Hydroelectric Dam on the Peace River near Fort St. John.

MONY has also been active in helping communities, such as its financial assistance, along with large and small banks, in building a $ 28 million hydroelectric dam project in Massachusetts in 1976.

once the logging industry faded, in the 1920s, hydroelectric dams were built.