Sentences with phrase «hydropower plant on»

In 2015 State Grid won a contract to build a 2,500 km line in Brazil, from the Belo Monte hydropower plant on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, to Rio de Janeiro.

These threats include a proposed hydropower plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, just over the border into Kenya, and a factory to process the soda ash from the lake itself.

Not exact matches

H2 Energy, together with IBAarau, has been working on the installation of a hydrogen generation plant at a hydropower facility in Aarau, in the country's north.

Since the governor also is seeking to shut down any nuclear plant not located on Lake Ontario, the state's energy future depends on a combination of hydropower, windmills and solar panels.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

Many of the negative impacts of hydropower center on what the damming of rivers does to the native plants and animals in the waterways that are affected.

Life on land: By displacing 1.8 terawatt hours of electricity from coal - fi red power plants, the hydropower plant avoids about 12,900 tons of SO2, 3,800 tons of NOx and 400 tons of fi ne dust per year.

Also, this internship grabbed my attention because American Rivers has a wide range of goals that they work to accomplish, from physically cleaning rivers to lobbying for regulations on hydropower plants.

«Our demonstrator also looked at specific regional effects that may have an impact on particular applications, such as the effect of climate change on freezing rain or hydropower plant inflows,» says Robert Vautard, team leader at CEA for the C3S contract.

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.

Since Rousseff — a former head of oil giant Petrobras — took power, however, the controls have been weakened, deforestation is once again on the rise, more hydropower plants are planned in the Amazon and the government has approved its first coal - fired plant in nine years.

South Consolidated Hydroelectric Unit constructed in 1981 on the South Canal 35 foot drop 1,400 kW capacity Crosscut Hydroelectric Plant began commercial operation in 1915 on the Crosscut Canal 116 foot drop 3,000 kW capacity Arizona Falls, a low - head hydropower system, is the Valley's newest hydroelectric generation station /

Much of the U.S. had settled on 60 Hz, but a hydropower plant built in the 1890s set Southern California on a different path.

And the Moses Lake plant — one of the largest CFRP plants on earth — draws its energy from locally - sourced hydropower.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is building the Broadland Hydropower Project on the Kelani River as a run - of - river (ROR) type power plant.

Once a project is licensed and operating, we counsel hydropower licensees on day - to - day regulatory compliance and dam safety, market operations, and environmental compliance issues that come with owning and operating a hydropower plant.