Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric power plants»

1888: Stetson initiates the construction of the first large hydroelectric power plant in America, at Niagara Falls, New York, and at the same time establishes the standard for the American electric system.

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.

LEWISTON — The New York Power Authority (NYPA) will host a special exhibit on civil rights in honor of Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, beginning Feb. 3, at its Power Vista, the admission - free visitors center for the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant.

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.

The government plans to develop a staggering 48 new hydroelectric power plants by 2020, totaling 42,157 MW of installed power — with more than 80 percent of that capacity slated to come from 18 new dams in the Amazon River Basin.

This bronze Tesla — a statue on the Canadian side — stands atop an induction motor, the type of engine that drove the first hydroelectric power plant.

A water shortage at hydroelectric power plants contributed to outages that left more than half of India's 1.2 billion people without electricity over two days in July — the largest blackout in history.

The new film «Sudaki Suretler» (Figures in the Water) highlights local resistance to the more than 1,700 dams and hydroelectric power plants planned for Turkey.

The vulnerability was hinted at during last year's monsoon as a devastating landslide on Aug. 2 put five hydroelectric power plants out of commission, taking 66.5 megawatts of generation out of our national grid.

4,020 onshore 5 - megawatt wind turbines 12,770 offshore 5 - megawatt wind turbines 387 100 - megawatt concentrated solar plants 828 50 - megawatt photovoltaic power plants 5 million 5 - kilowatt residential rooftop photovoltaic systems 500,000 100 - kilowatt commercial / government rooftop photovoltaic systems 36 100 - megawatt geothermal plants 1,910 0.75 - megawatt wave devices 2,600 1 - megawatt tidal turbines 7 1,300 - megawatt hydroelectric power plants, of which most exist

California hydroelectric power plants were expected to produce 1,137 fewer megawatts this summer than in the past due to drought over the winter, said Stephanie McCorkle, spokeswoman for California Independent System Operator, responsible for operation of most of California's power delivery.

Skillful multi-year drought predictions and subsequent wildfire probability are particularly useful for water and forest resource managers as well as for cities, farmers, and hydroelectric power plant operators.

She was later promoted to Chief of Staff where she was a vocal proponent of industrialization, supporting investment in nuclear and hydroelectric power plants which have been contentious issues among environmentalists.

We estimate that ∼ 3,800,000 5 MW wind turbines, ∼ 49,000 300 MW concentrated solar plants, ∼ 40,000 300 MW solar PV power plants, ∼ 1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop PV systems, ∼ 5350 100 MW geothermal power plants, ∼ 270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants, ∼ 720,000 0.75 MW wave devices, and ∼ 490,000 1 MW tidal turbines can power a 2030 WWS world that uses electricity and electrolytic hydrogen for all purposes.

The area is also home to the Bath County Pumped Storage Station, which is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant.

China uses hydroelectric power plants in order to produce electricity for several industrial parks and towns.

Utility prices are also surprisingly low, thanks to Olympia's proximity to a nearby hydroelectric power plant.

The awards represent the first grants under legislation signed into law last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for applying net earnings from unutilized power from the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant to spur capital investments and job creation.

Bitcoin miners tend to settle their farms near hydroelectric power plants.

Although resource potential quantifies maximum feasible capacity additions, EIA's AEO2014 Reference case also considers market and policy hurdles that can limit actual development of a new hydroelectric power plant.

But, because Niagara County is home to the fourth largest hydroelectric power plant in the in the US, Ceretto has collected thousands of signatures on a petition seeking direct representation.

Global warming emissions are produced during the installation and dismantling of hydroelectric power plants, but recent research suggests that emissions during a facility's operation can also be significant.

This will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa.

You probably can't build a hydroelectric power plant on some fast - moving water this way, for example.

Traders searching for cheap, renewable energy have been flooding into the island in recent months to take advantage of its geothermal and hydroelectric power plants.

The country has a large number of geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, which provide a massive electricity surplus to the island nation.

In Washington state, for instance, the smelters that used to operate near the hydroelectric power plants along the Columbia River have been priced out by the power - chugging server farms of tech companies such as Microsoft.

Human evolution: from bond fires started by rubbing sticks to hydroelectric power plants - from gazing at the Moon to actually going there - Indeed we are evolving!!!

They were discovered along Lake Perucac, an artificial reservoir that is connected to a hydroelectric power plant.

LEWISTON — The New York Power Authority (NYPA) will hold a Family Safety Fair on Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at its admission - free Power Vista, the visitor center for NYPA's Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant.

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.

She compared the process to a hydroelectric power plant.

The construction of a hydroelectric power plant threatens the valley of the Magdalena River, its flora, fauna, people and their way of living.

The hydroelectric power plant thus avoids nearly 180 deaths a year.

Hydraulic head: The distance between the respective elevations of the upstream water surface (headwater) above and the downstream surface water (tailwater) below a hydroelectric power plant.

China is the world's biggest installer of wind, solar and hydroelectric power plants, and last year for the first time it reduced coal burning.

Of course, there are also wind turbines, on land and at sea, hydroelectric power plants and biogas plants.

Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.

The plan calls for increasing the use of large - scale, carbon - free generation such as wind, solar and large hydroelectric power plants to at least 80 % of electricity delivered to customers, continued use of distributed rooftop solar and doubling energy efficiency by 2030.

The group then combined data from the first model with a second model that incorporated energy produced by more stable sources of electricity, like geothermal power plants, tidal and wave devices, and hydroelectric power plants, and of heat, like geothermal reservoirs.

Hydroelectric power plants can disrupt river ecosystems both upstream and downstream from the dam.

Washington, D.C., January 13, 2017 — Wind power employs just over 100,000 Americans according to new data released today by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), more than work at nuclear, natural gas, coal, or hydroelectric power plants.

Energy is cheap in Iceland due to country's geothermal and hydroelectric power plants.