Sentences with phrase «hydropower dams around»

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Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.

Remote dams around the world already deliver hydropower via HVDC lines, including a 1,480 - kilometer (920 - mile) link that has carried energy from James Bay in northern Quebec to New England since 1990.

Norway generates more power than it uses (around 99 percent of domestic energy needs are met by its hydropower dams), so much so that they export surplus energy to their neighbors.