However, estimates for life - cycle global warming emissions from
hydroelectric plants built in tropical areas or temperate peatlands are much higher.
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.
Not exact matches
You probably can't
build a
hydroelectric power
plant on some fast - moving water this way, for example.
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.
Questioned about the environmental impacts of
building large
hydroelectric power
plants in the Amazon, she said Brazil can not relinquish hydropower yet — «It would be like giving up fracking in the U.S.» — but she hopes solar and wind power generation will take its place overtime.
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.
A German construction crew works on
building an EU - funded
hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria.
Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new
hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «
built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.
In the fall of 1962 Consolidated Edison proposed to
build a pumped - storage
hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain.
From solar panels on the roofs of giants
buildings of corporations to large wind farms and huge
hydroelectric power
plants, the evidence of renewable energy acceptance are sprouting sporadically around the land.
In the meantime, we will need to
build more
hydroelectric dams and construct «fossil fuel
plants with carbon capture and storage» technology.
Solar, wind, biomass and
hydroelectric power producers want Congress to provide cash payments in lieu of tax credits now available for
building renewable energy power
plants or producing cleaner energy (see Industry Groups Call for Changes to Federal Incentives).
Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to
build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese
hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal
plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.
Hydroelectric power
plant Working principle
Hydroelectric power
plant (Hydel
plant) utilizes the potential energy of water stored in a dam
built across the river.
To follow the variable demand the power producers use a variety of «
building blocks» from steady running constant load units (Nuclear,
Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power
plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generators).
Southern Company is the largest US player in carbon sequestration, is behind the 2nd largest solar power generation
plant in the US (and several lesser ones), is the only company currently
building new nuclear power
plants in the US, has the US's largest biomass power generation
plant, is only the 7th largest
hydroelectric power generator in the US but is trying to expand, and is invested heavily in wind power research.
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.