A
"hydroelectric plant" is a power station that uses moving water, such as from a river or dam, to generate electricity.
Full definition
The Peruvian government has temporarily decided not to promote the development of large
hydroelectric plants in the Peruvian Amazon.
However, estimates for life - cycle global warming emissions
from hydroelectric plants built in tropical areas or temperate peatlands are much higher.
In the fall of 1962 Consolidated Edison proposed to build a pumped - storage
hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain.
As we ascended the 1,300 - foot - high windswept knob, I was reminded continually of a remarkable gathering last December of environmentalists, lawyers and scholars who played critical roles in defeating a plan proposed by Consolidated Edison in 1962 to embed a pumped -
storage hydroelectric plant in the mountain.
Since it has a large number
of hydroelectric plants, wind energy could be stored in grid - filling quantities and used to pump water up into the reservoirs that power the turbines.
«Users would be able to drop off the spent electrolytes at gas stations, which would then be sent in bulk to solar farms, wind turbine installations or
hydroelectric plants for reconstitution or re-charging into the viable electrolyte and reused many times.
Life - cycle emissions from large - scale
hydroelectric plants built in semi-arid regions are also modest: approximately 0.06 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.
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 union says the Power Authority has exploited its quasi-government status to avoid reaching a contract with about 50 unionized workers who operate some of the
massive hydroelectric plants in western and northern New York.
At one time or another the ash clouds closed 11 airports, and ash that washed into the water intake of one
major hydroelectric plant caused $ 6.5 million in damage.
The capital cost of the new generators would be borne by the distillers, while building a 3000 -
megawatt hydroelectric plant would cost the state an estimated $ 8 billion.
For example, during the last major geomagnetic storm experienced by Earth in 1989, the entire Canadian province of Quebec went dark when a critical Canadian
hydroelectric plant went down.
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.
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.
-- A company that owns 71
hydroelectric plants acquired from Upstate utility company Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. estimated a combined Empire Zone take of roughly $ 142 million.
The Varick
Street hydroelectric plant in Oswego is one of the Upstate hydro facilities for which Brookfield Asset Management, of Canada, got tax breaks through the Empire Zones program.
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.
«The Power Authority takes great pride in the integral role that our visitors centers play in the communities and in their highlighting our
sustainable hydroelectric plants and the new energy technologies that we deploy in our business and with our customers.»
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.
The underground tunnel system is what actually brings the water into New York City while the electricity is supplied by a
distant hydroelectric plant in a Canadian forest.
The pavilion included a display from the New York State Power Authority with a 26 - foot scale replica of the St.
Lawrence hydroelectric plant.
The full potential there is enormous — some 40,000 TW of renewable energy in all, of which we tap only a tiny fraction with our
present hydroelectric plants.
The flood of 1969 was the result of four days of almost continuous rainfall (11.27» measured in Morrison and 9.34» at the
Boulder Hydroelectric Plant three miles up Boulder Canyon from town).
The 486 megawatt (MWe)
Zakucac hydroelectric plant is the largest power plant in Croatia, and is scheduled for renovation to improve its operability.
A tender has been announced for the new 68.5 MWe
Ombla hydroelectric plant proposed for a site on the Rijeka Dubrovacka river.
That meant coal burned in newer supercritical plants, natural gas, nuclear, tire burning, and existing 50 - year -
old hydroelectric plants all counted — and they already made up more than two - thirds of supply.
Now in Switzerland roughly half of the power comes from
hydroelectric plants with the other half coming from nuclear plants plus a smidgen of geothermal, wood, wind, etc., so there is essentially zero «carbon footprint» in electrical power here to start off with.
At one extreme, the large
Balbina hydroelectric plant, which was built in a flat area of Brazil, flooded 2,360 square kilometers — an area the size of Delaware — and it only provides 250 MW of power generating capacity (equal to more than 2,000 acres per MW)[1].
In 2013, Agder Energi awarded a contract worth USD 24.4 million to Alstom, towards upgradation of the Iveland
II hydroelectric plant in Norway, which has a generating capacity of approximately 150 - GWh and 50 MW on annual basis.
The first of six generator - turbines at the US$ 4.5 billion 2,070 - MW
Lauca hydroelectric plant is expected to begin supplying commercial energy to Angola's public electricity grid on July 21.