Sentences with phrase «hydropower development»

«What we're seeing is a very rapid proliferation of hydropower development in these countries,» he says.

«It's very useful to have an international standard, especially for countries that don't have much experience in hydropower development.»

Nepal is beginning to turn to hydropower, with run of river hydropower development on the glacier fed Arun River opening in 2003.

«As we started exploring this topic of small hydropower development, we realized we're facing a proliferation of this kind of facility, but we don't know exactly how their environmental impacts scale up in a watershed,» said lead author Thiago Couto, a UW doctoral student in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.

China is rushing to build dams along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in part to protect the Three Gorges Dam, but can such hydropower development be done better?

The solution, according to the Conservancy, is to plan hydropower development on a watershed level rather than allowing the proliferation of projects from various levels of government: county, township, city, provincial and even national.

Reference: Z.D. Deng, J. Lu, M.J. Myjak, J.J. Martinez, C. Tian, S.J. Morris, T.J. Carlson, D. Zhou & H. Hou, «Design and Implementation of a new Autonomous Sensor Fish to Support Advanced Hydropower Development,» Review of Scientific Instruments, Nov. 4, 2014, DOI: 10.1063 / 1.4900543.

It is aimed at assisting key decision makers ensure hydropower development is managed in the most sustainable manner possible.

Additional hydropower development that meets modern environmental requirements is essential to reduce the United States» dependence on carbon.

And Xie Xiaoping, the chair of Huanghe Hydropower Development, a large scale power developer, offered: «The Chinese government will carry out and fulfil its international commitments... I don't care what Mr Trump says... I think what he says is nonsense.»

However, aggressive hydropower development has reduced the size and degraded the quality of this aquatic haven.

A new report from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimates that there is potential for over 65 GW of new hydropower development across more than three million rivers and streams in the United States.

Even though we have great potential for hydropower development, we have not been able to produce the required amount.

Implementation of favorable government regulations such as the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs in the U.S. and growing number of funding programs pertaining to the renewable energy sector in developed countries such as Italy and Canada are some of the factors which are expected to present future growth opportunities.

But what do thriving liana communities mean for Balbina in the long - term, and for the Amazon in general, as hydropower development rapidly expands across the basin?

World Energy Resources Report 2015: Charting the Upsurge in Hydropower Development is a critical and expansive review of the current state and trends within the hydropower sector, examining the sector's development from technological, economic and socio - political perspectives.

It has enjoyed healthy growth in capacity worldwide over the last decade as stakeholders continue to value the potential of hydropower development to help meet growing energy demand.

China meets around a quarter of its energy needs through hydroelectricity, and was on a hydropower development trajectory prior to the introduction of the CDM.

With hundreds of dams currently planned and under construction all across the Amazon basin, failing to take these increased carbon emissions into account in environmental impact assessments and cost - benefit analyses of hydropower developments is a serious oversight, the scientists warn.