Sentences with phrase «hydropower generating»

On top of this, China plans to build 80,000 MW of pumped storage hydropower generating capacity from 2011 to 2015, up from a previous goal of 50,000 MW.

The authority sells hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston to about 100 local companies at prices that are presently 30 to 40 percent below market rates.

43North has been the single largest recipient of a special fund created to ensure Western New York gets its fair share of profits from the sale of hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston.

The village's contract with the New York Power Authority to transmit hydropower generated from Niagara Falls expires next month.

The additional fee was needed to cover a hike in the village's new long - term transmission agreement with the New York Power Authority, which transmits hydropower generated in Niagara Falls to Greenport, according to Mayor David Nyce.

Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) tribal use of federal power allocations or sales by specified power administrations; and (2) the cost and feasibility of a demonstration project using wind energy generated by Indian tribes and hydropower generated by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Missouri River to supply firming power to the Western Area Power Administration.

Of that though, hydropower generates about one - third (and that's not changing much in three years), and biomass generates about half (don't we want to get away from burning stuff to make energy...), so solar, wind and geothermal power are really going to have to take up the slack here.

Not exact matches

But they both neighbour provinces — B.C. and Manitoba — that generate ample hydropower.

«This project draws on two of our greatest competitive advantages — clean, self - generated hydropower and leading - edge AP smelting technology.

The Northern New York Power Proceeds Act will generate an estimated $ 2 million a year from the sale of 20 megawatts of hydropower.

D. Patrick Curley, a NYPA trustee from Orchard Park, said: «The considerable economic activity that the hydropower customers generate in Western New York underscores the importance of the contract extensions.

The plan calls for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels; lowering energy consumption in buildings 23 percent from 2012 levels, and generating half of the state's electricity from solar, wind, hydropower and biomass by 2030.

Less rain could affect agriculture, which currently generates $ 15 billion a year for Brazil's economy, and hydropower, which generates 65 percent of Brazil's electricity, he said.

Back in 2000, the country generated barely 6 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly hydropower.

Hydropower stations along the Colorado River supply more than 4,200 megawatts of generating capacity.

«Despite that many believe our power is generated using fossil fuels from Alberta, most of Canada's electricity mix comes from hydropower and nuclear facilities,» Kennedy says.

[172] Vattenfall offered customers participating in this trial a supply of renewable electricity generated from wind or hydropower.

(1) increased demand for heating fuels and electricity due to cooler winter and warmer summer conditions in 2007 than in 2006; (2) increased consumption of fossil fuels to generate electricity; and (3) a significant decrease (14.2 percent) in hydropower generation used to meet this demand.

The Vishnuprayag power plant utilizes hydropower in the Himalayas to generate clean energy.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

Austria generates 70 % of its electricity from hydropower, with many of the larger projects being glacier fed such as Kaprun.

Peru and other countries in Latin America generate a large portion of their electricity from hydropower, which lights up the Palacio de Justicia in Peru's capital city, Lima.

In Maine, community groups such as Friends of Maine's Mountains have repeatedly opposed more wind development in favor of hydropower, which generates about quarter of Maine's electricity.

We need to be far more inventive and two currently far better energy sources — tidal energy and hydropower, generated from our more than plentiful rivers, are being completely ignored.

Defines: (1) «renewable electricity» as electricity generated from a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resources; (2) «renewable energy resource» as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, renewable biomass, biogas and biofuels derived exclusively from renewable biomass, qualified hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; and (3) «other qualifying energy resource» as landfill gas, wastewater treatment gas, coal mine methane used to generate electricity at or near the mine mouth, and qualified waste - to - energy.

Provides for the issuance of RECs for qualified hydropower, electricity generated from qualified waste, and electricity generated using both a renewable energy resource and a nonrenewable resource.

The U.S. has the capacity to store some 22 gigawatts in pumped hydropower, about 2 percent of U.S. generating capacity.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

A number of African and small Asian countries also generate virtually all of their electricity with hydropower, including Bhutan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nepal, and Zambia.

Today hydropower is generated in over 160 countries.

Wind and solar generation are qualitatively different from electricity generated by fossil fuels, nuclear energy, or hydropower.

And with some 275 cities now reporting the use of hydropower, 189 generating electricity from wind and 184 using solar photovoltaics, CDP expects to see more cities around the globe join this important movement.

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

In 2012 California's hydropower facilities produced 26.8 million megawatt - hours (MWh), while grid - connected solar generated just 1.4 million MWh.

Wind further solidified its role as the number three electricity source in China (behind coal and hydropower), out - generating nuclear power by an impressive 22 percent.

Washington DC — According to the latest «Energy Infrastructure Update» report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower provided 88.2 % of new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity for the month of May.

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low - impact hydropower.

We generate all of our needs with coal, hydropower, nuclear power and natural gas.

During a drought, energy prices tend to increase due to the reduced ability to generate hydropower and the need to replace that hydropower with more expensive energy sources.

In the past, the drop in hydropower has been largely made up by burning more natural gas, costing Californians billions of dollars in added energy costs and generating more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

However, International Rivers says there has been no substantial jump in hydropower development to match the large number of supposedly new projects applying to generate CDM credits.

The way to exploit hydropower electricity generating potential with the least - environmental impact?

The «technology to eliminate fossil fuel combustion» includes solar and wind energy, geothermal energy, a variety of hydropower energy sources, combustion of biomass to generate electricity (an entirely different matter than liquid biofuels for transport) and more — ALL of which is already at hand, and already being deployed at both large and small scales all over the world.

Hydro - Quebec, the province's public utility, generates over 95 % of its electricity from hydropower.

The exact greenhouse gas emissions from one of these hydropower reservoirs is going to vary from project to project, but in one example in Peru cited in the same article linked above emissions from electricity generation were three and a half times those if the electricity had been generated from oil (which is only slightly better than using coal).

The runoff from Zongo glacier flows through 10 hydropower plants that currently generate some 25 percent of Bolivia's electricity.

«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 %.

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.