Sentences with phrase «hydropower capacity»

As of July, on average, not even half of its installed hydropower capacity found water to turn turbines, the company's statistics show.

In his plan, Inslee notes excess hydropower capacity but emphasizes «virtual batteries, scheduled transmission improvements and power swaps» as the way to use the extra juice without cutting out other renewables.

He added that climate models project that the southern area of Brazil will see more rain, which could increase the existing hydropower capacity and help offset losses in the north.

Hydropower capacity expansion was also lower than in 2015.

Myanmar, with 100 GW of potential hydropower capacity, is the likely next frontier.

In some areas of the country, abundant hydropower capacity has supplied both baseload and peaking generation.

The country's enormous hydropower capacity allows for electricity export; Canada sells some 50 billion kilowatt - hours to the United States every year — enough to power more than 4 million American homes.

Storing more water in reservoirs and refilling them earlier can help salmon at the expense of a small decline in hydropower capacity.11

However, in February 2011, Chinese officials revealed plans to resume the Nu River dams as part of China's 12th Five - Year Plan, which aims to add up to 140 GW of new hydropower capacity to meet its renewable energy targets.

ORNL's hydropower resource estimates contrast with the 2 GW of additional hydropower capacity projected to be added through 2040 in EIA's latest Annual Energy Outlook (AEO2014) Reference case.

In addition, large hydropower capacity is also planned to grow by around a quarter in the same timeframe.

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A huge hydro - wind hybrid power station will double Morocco's entire installed hydropower capacity — and be a world's first.

Home to 12 of the largest miners in the country, the conveniently located small city of Wenatchee, located in Port of Douglas county, offers impossibly inexpensive energy interjection to the hydropower capacity.

If all hydropower capacity were to be developed, the study estimates that this number could more than triple.

Hydropower capacity is targeted to grow about 6 percent a year to reach 290 gigawatts by 2015, nuclear capacity to quadruple to 58 gigawatts by 2020 and gas - fired capacity to double to 56 gigawatts by 2015.

Now, Bhutan plans to build an array of new dams and quickly ramp up hydropower capacity to 10,000 MW by 2020 — a goal that is becoming increasingly controversial.

Hydropower capacity has increased by slightly more than 1 % over the past decade, although actual hydropower generation can vary noticeably by season depending on water supply conditions.

Because most large dams in the United States were built before 1980, the country's hydropower capacity has remained relatively stable in recent decades.

While the country is scaling up its renewable energy, up to 15 percent of its energy needs by 2020, or 20 gigawatts (coal currently provides 67 percent of the country's energy), by 2020, the country wants to nearly triple its hydropower capacity, to 300 gigawatts.