Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric generating plants»

The inventory of U.S. hydroelectric generating plants consists mainly of three types of plants.

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Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP owns and operates a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities including 193 hydroelectric generating stations 11 wind facilities and two natural gas - fired plants in USA Canada and Brazil.

And there's long - standing political opposition by labor unions and lawmakers who have for years pushed to have power generated in the state rather than imported from Quebec, which has substantial government - run hydroelectric plants.

Hydroelectric plants, for instance, often draw on reservoirs to generate additional electricity at peak times, and then pump some of the water back uphill in off - peak periods.

«Each one of these loops carries as much energy as a large hydroelectric plant, such as the Hoover dam, generates in about a million years!»

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

«Ultimately the things that will generate electricity in the developing world and here will be the same,» Rucker said, highlighting the next generation of nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams as particularly applicable in parts of Africa.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

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.

Boosted by the growing share of solar and wind, 2016 serves as the second year where non-hydro renewable sources generated more electricity than hydroelectric plants.

Water allowed to flow downhill where the PE KE KE of water turns turbines generating energy Rapidly expanding with power from hydroelectric plants doubling every 15 years.

Prior to Turkey's recent economic difficulties, projections by Turkey's Electricity Generating and Transmission Corporation (TEAS), a public company which owns and operates 15 thermal and 30 hydroelectric plants generating 91 % of Turkey's electricity, had indicated that rapid growth in electricity consumption would continue over the next 15 years.

Heavily reliant on oil imports and with an annual energy deficit of 3,478 GWh as of 2009, electricity in Lebanon is for the most part generated by hydroelectric and thermal generation at present and in addition, there are power reliability issues «such as load shedding, technical losses, and the aging of power plants», which again the addition of dispatchable renewable energy facilities is intended to counteract.

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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.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.