Sentences with phrase «hydropower output»

Even so, hydropower output would have had to grow by almost 40 % if it were to have displaced the increase in coal - fired power generation, an unrealistic prospect regardless of the weather.

The main reason was that growth in renewables and nuclear power could not keep up with increased electricity demand, even though some sources have cited a drought - induced drop in hydropower output as a factor in the rebounding coal consumption.

Given that Southern China now faces power shortfalls due to drought - induced lower hydropower output.

This will reduce the hydropower output during the melt season.

That paper claimed Jacobson's study had a large modeling error on hydropower output.

After all, preparing for floods means lowering water levels in the reservoir to allow for extra water, resulting in reduced hydropower output.

Not exact matches

According to the Canadian Hydropower Association, Canada still has enough hydro capacity to more than double current output.

Those electricity imports helped to stave off potential blackouts as electricity production in the Pacific Norwest suffered due to a drought reducing output from hydropower in Washington, Oregon, and California.

In the last decade more than 60 percent of all hydropower projects worldwide were in China and Three Gorges alone will avoid the emission of an estimated 95 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — more than the combined output of Norway and Sweden.

In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the output of independent solar arrays and wind farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the output of a 24 - hour power plant.

All renewable energy sources — including hydropower, biofuels, solar and geothermal power — made up 17 percent of total output, compared with almost 63 percent for fossil fuels.

Hydropower provides clean and virtually carbon - free power, but is expensive to build, and its output varies by season and by year.

Electric power systems with a large share of intermittent resources may rely more on flexible resources such as gas turbines or hydropower to «firm up» the output of intermittent generators.

More on Rivers Improving Efficiency at Washington's Hydropower Projects Could Boost Output 3x More Than Building New Dams Green Prophet's Top 7 Mideast Eco-Tourism Spots Black Sea Floods a Not - So - Natural Disaster

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 %.

While nuclear, imported hydropower and renewables made up more than half of the state's generation output in 2015, regulators are concerned low - priced natural gas generation would replace retiring nuclear plants in electricity markets, raising emissions and putting the goal in doubt.