Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric sources»

Nuclear and natural gas - fired plants each pick up about 20 percent of the load; hydroelectric sources come in around 6 percent, while renewables, like wind and solar, amount to about 4 percent.

According to the US Energy Information Administration, in 2015 Washington was the leading producer of electricity from hydroelectric sources in the country — which makes the state the nation's top producer of carbon free energy.

Costa Rica ran entirely on renewable energy for 300 days of 2017, with nearly 80 % of its power coming from hydroelectric sources, around 10 % from wind energy, and the rest from biomass and solar power.

The eight public - power agencies rated by Fitch in California obtain from 10 percent to 32 percent of their power from hydroelectric sources.

I would imagine the recent news I have been reading in science magazines by utilizing all available solar, wind, and hydroelectric sources to be the most substantial long term solution.

Wood provides more energy than solar, wind, and hydroelectric sources combined.

Not exact matches

Eighteen percent of all electricity in the United States was produced by renewable sources in 2017, including solar, wind, and hydroelectric dams.

When you include the deaths caused by the tragic 1975 collapse of China's enormous Banqiao Dam, hydroelectric can be considered one of the riskiest power sources.

The company also thinks renewable sources will increase from around 2 percent today to 7 percent by 2035, while the prevalence of hydroelectric power and nuclear energy will remain mostly unchanged.

Renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric power comprised 53.6 % of all GW capacity of technologies that were installed during 2015.

«Assuring a domestic source of clean, reliable hydroelectric power helps secure our energy system for the growth of businesses and sectors of the Lower Mainland and provincial economy for decades into the future.»

And there is commitment from the government to power the country on solely renewable sources, especially hydroelectric, wind, and geothermal.

That's fueling explosive growth not only in wind and solar installations but in other cleaner sources like hydroelectric.

Lactalis» Buffalo and Nampa facilities both utilize hydroelectric power generation as part of the company's effort to pursue non-fossil fuel - based energy sources and prevent carbon dioxide emissions.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has already declared a goal of having 50 percent of the state's power come from solar, wind, hydroelectric or other renewable sources in 15 years, but the state has had no means of enforcing that directive.

These challenges could soon trigger another radical transition, this time toward renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal.

As the ice disappears, Thompson says, Peru will lose sources of irrigation and hydroelectric power.

The U.S. needs a new transmission backbone that crisscrosses the country, knitting together many large wind farms, solar - energy fields, geothermal pools, hydroelectric generators and other alternative sources.

Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.

He means energy sources such as hydroelectric, solar and wind power, and possibly nuclear power.)

Data currently being collected about the impact on Lake Turkana's food web and fisheries from hydroelectric and agriculture projects may prove vital to a growing global population whose fresh water sources have become increasingly taxed.

The above chart of American Electric Power (AEP), an Ohio - based electricity generator and distributer that runs the gamut from coal to hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind sources, might explain why traders sometimes bypass utilities.

The Costa Rican Electrical Institute (ICE) was building the hydroelectric dam to create the Arenal reservoir — now one of the country's most important sources of electric energy.

It's the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam - the very source and symbol of the energy - sucking, resource - devouring industrial culture they despise.

Coal, foreign oil, wind, solar, hydroelectric, tidal, bio reclammation, nuclear, thermal and perhaps some new clean energy source that is relatively affordable.

Mainstream energy sources would be solar, geothermal, wind, hydroelectric, tidal, and nuclear.

We have world scale reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, hydroelectric power, wood and other renewable sources too.

RPS limits sources to wind, solar, small hydroelectric and geothermal power.

And if we intend to maintain our standard of living, if we want to remain competitive in the world economy, if we expect to continue protecting our national security, we're going to have to find new, renewable and sustainable clean sources of energy — solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric.

We only have the capacity to produce about 30 % of our electricity from non-carbon emitting fuel sources (primarily nuclear and hydroelectric).

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

Hydroelectric power is a clean renewable energy source, that provides 70 % of the electricity to Washington State.

Compared to both traditional energy sources and other green energy — 10.5 cents per kWh from a Canadian wind farm and as low as 6 cents per kWh from Quebec hydroelectric — Cape Wind prices would have been high.

As of 2010, renewable energy sources (including hydroelectric) accounted for nearly 17 % of German electricity generation, which is nothing to sneeze at (in comparison, it's currently approximately 10 % in the USA).

In recent years China has significantly expanded its interests in renewable energy sources including wind, solar, biofuels, tidal, and small hydroelectric dams.

China to add wind power capacity August 15, 2005 In recent years China has significantly expanded its interests in renewable energy sources including wind, solar, biofuels, tidal, and small hydroelectric dams.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

While much of our state enjoys relatively clean energy from hydroelectric and other sources, we are still deeply reliant on fossil fuels — especially in our transportation system.

In South America, a continent that has already been working to reduce their emissions due to their location, which is considered to be especially susceptible to the effects of climate change, there is a massive push among governments to continue to develop sources of renewable energy such as hydroelectric, geothermal, and solar.

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A national renewable electricity standard would mandate that a given share of an electric company's production come from renewable sources (most likely wind power), or, in the case of a «clean energy standard,» from an expanded list including nuclear and hydroelectric power.

Coal may seem an odd contender in a world where promising renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydroelectric power are attracting attention.

answer We can substantially reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by investing in alternative energy sources, such as solar power, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear power, tidal power, etc..

Hydroelectric power is also cheap, clean, and good for both baseload and meeting peak demand, but limited by available natural sources.

Intermittent renewables can provide 10 - 20 % of our electricity, with hydroelectric and other baseload renewable sources (see below) on top of that.

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.

Thanks to its unique geography and commitment to environmental preservation, small but mighty Costa Rica meets a huge amount of its energy needs using hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, wind, and other low - carbon sources.

Although a fossil fuel, combustion of natural gas emits only 45 % as much carbon dioxide as combustion of coal, and hydroelectric is of course a very low - carbon energy source.

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.

He contends that we are «squandering the opportunity of a generation, through blind opposition to our three most potent sources of power: hydrocarbon energy (coal, oil, and gas), nuclear energy, and hydroelectric energy.»