Sentences with phrase «hydropower accounted»

Fossil fuels and large hydropower accounted for only 4 percent of energy access financing, showing again that investing in large, conventional energy projects is not an effective way to increase energy access.

Hydropower does exceed nonhydro renewable generation in several states, particularly in the Northwest, where in 2013 conventional hydropower accounted for 69 % and 56 % of total electricity generation in Washington and Oregon, respectively.

During the first half of 2014, however, hydropower accounted for only 10 % of California's total generation.

British Columbia, Canada hydropower accounts for approximately 90 % of the electiricity.

Hydropower accounts for 17 % of the world electricity supply, utilizing one third of its economically exploitable potential.

Not exact matches

Gradually, the state's 12,000 rivers have allowed Alaska to turn more to hydropower, which in 2016 accounted for about 30 percent of its total electricity production.

Hydropower currently accounts for more than 75 percent of Brazil's electric energy generation, but only a little more than a third of the country's hydro capacity has been tapped.

In the U.S., large - scale renewable projects plus conventional hydropower are expected to account for 14 percent of total electricity generation in 2016, a 9 percent rise from 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.

Large capacity segment in 2016 accounted for over 80 % of global hydropower market share.

Wind and solar (combined) accounted for about 20 % of non ‐ fossil electricity generation in 2016 and slightly exceeded hydropower after rising from less than 1 % in 2000 to 2 % in 2006.

And in China, wind power — despite accounting for less than 3 percent of electricity generation — recently overtook nuclear to become the country's third largest power source after coal and hydropower.

Solar accounted for 47 % of the total capacity added, followed by wind and hydropower.

Proposed changes to the way countries» climate budgets are calculated aim to take greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs into account, but some experts worry that they will not go far enough.

The good news is that renewable energy subsidies for wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower, and non-corn based biofuels and biomass have been growing in recent years, but still only account for about 17 percent of all energy subsidies between 2002 and 2008.

By March 6, 16.32 million CERs had been issued for 132 dams, and China accounted for 71.52 per cent of the 653 large hydropower projects in the world that have been registered or are seeking registration under the CDM to sell CERs, according to International Rivers.

«Renewable energy sources, including hydropower, now account for 16.3 % of total installed U.S. operating generating capacity: water - 8.58 %, wind - 5.27 %, biomass - 1.37 %, solar - 0.75 %, and geothermal steam - 0.33 %.

Gas and gas / oil duel - fuel generators accounted for 44 % of NYISO electricity output in 2015, while nuclear generated 31 %, and hydropower (mostly imported from Canada) accounted for 18 %.

«Globally, wind power accounted for about 39 % of renewable power capacity added in 2012, followed by hydropower and solar PV, each accounting for approximately 26 %.