Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric plants with»

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.

Not exact matches

The green energy entity is an acquisitions spinoff for renewable - energy company SunEdison, which purchases wind, sun, and hydroelectric plants, along with other assets.

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

«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.»

«The state has been quite aggressive with other renewables, we have quite a lot of energy coming from hydroelectric plants, and there has been a lot of work to boost other green energy, including wind and solar,» he said.

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.

LEWISTON — The New York Power Authority (NYPA) will hold its annual «Eggstravaganza» — featuring free photos with Bunny — on April 5 at its admission - free Power Vista, the visitors center for the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant, located at 5777 Lewiston Road, Lewiston, NY.

Operators compensated with power from hydroelectric and gas - fired plants.

Tension and distrust emerge when German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria mix with the locals.

They created a community with a sawmill, dairy farm and small hydroelectric plant.

Beyond Architecture, with images selected from the entire Stoller archive of more than 50,000 images, includes views of Post-War American factories, construction sites, hydroelectric dams and printing plants.

The pavilion included a display from the New York State Power Authority with a 26 - foot scale replica of the St. Lawrence hydroelectric plant.

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.

Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.

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.

While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.

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

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.

In the 1960s, most conservationists favored nuclear plants as a clean energy alternative to coal plants and hydroelectric dams and only turned away from nuclear with the rise of open anti-humanism.

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.

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

Hydroelectric plants can be added to dams with relatively low construction cost, providing revenue to offset the costs of dam operation.

In the Northeast and Northwest, where a bigger portion of the power is produced with nuclear reactors, hydroelectric dams, natural gas - fired power plants and wind farms, an electric car will produce 76 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a typical gasoline - powered car and 56 percent fewer emissions than a hybrid.

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.

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

Renewable energy plays a minor role in India's energy portfolio, but the country has been credited with making strong strides in solar, small hydroelectric plants, and wind farms.

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.

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.

This demand is met mostly with hydroelectric, nuclear and very large power plants that do not like to be turned up and down too much; they provide the base load and they do so at about 33 % efficiency.

Recent analysis from Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson finds Hawaii can economically meet 100 % of its energy needs with 14 % residential rooftop PV, 9.7 % PV power plants, 7 % concentrating solar power plants, 12 % onshore wind, 16 % offshore wind, 9 % commercial and government rooftop PV, 1 % wave energy, 30 % geothermal, 0.3 % hydroelectric, and 1 % tidal energy.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has been tasked with monitoring and restricting the power use of crypto mining operations, which are usually located near hydroelectric power plants.