Sentences with phrase «hydropower plants»

These are very exciting times for HydroMiner, the Austrian company that operates cryptocurrency mining farms in hydropower plants in the Alps.

A small hydropower plant in Fugong County discharges water from a tributary into the main channel of the Nu River.

[Translate] By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Dams create huge reservoirs for hydropower plants in Norway.

The money they raised will be used to install high - powered computers at hydropower plants, where they will be able to mine new cryptocurrency at a cheap price, using renewable energy sources.

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.

2008 - Gives a lecture on Impacts of Hydropower Plants at the Federal University of Roraima — UFRR.

This means that Hydro - Quebec can not cover the needs of all the Bitcoin miners looking to move to Quebec and the current population and industry, and it has no plans to build new hydropower plants.

It's also backed by hydropower plants, which comprise 85 % of the portfolio, a unique asset position in renewable energy stocks.

In northern Norway, the Svartisen ice cap and smaller ice caps and glaciers in the same watershed cover about 50 % of the drainage area that is utilised by the Svartisen hydropower plant in northern Norway (Andreasson et.al., 2005).

There are more than 2,000 hydropower plants operating in the United States, making hydropower the country's largest renewable energy source.

The Rhone River has 19 hydropower plants supplying 25 % of France's hydropower and 4 % of the total energy supply.

They should also promote storage facilities for excess energy such as pumped storage hydropower plants or underground vaults for compressed air.

The Akosombo hydropower plants would only constitute 38 % of VRA's generation mix by December this year, which will constitute less than 30 % of the country's generation mix.

David Youlen, an executive who managed the New York hydropower plants for Reliant and now runs them for Brookfield Asset Management, said those companies have invested $ 33 million to fix their hydro plants in the past three years.

For example, he called for an «energy highway system» to link hydropower plants in Quebec and northern New York with energy - hungry consumers in the downstate region.

The CEO, Hyde said, was extremely impressed, especially because Hyde could offer power at just 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour from nearby hydropower plants.

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.

One of the challenges the researchers faced in compiling these numbers is that countries define «small» hydropower plants differently.

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.

Two additional hydropower plants have also been proposed, the 106 MWe Virje plant and the 42 MWe Lesce plant.

In March of 2016, Max Boegl Wind AG, a German firm approached GE Renewable Energy with the idea to create the world's first onshore wind farm with an integrated hydropower plant.

«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.

Another climate - friendly energy project, in Nepal, has been delivering more than 1,000 micro hydropower plants since 2007 to communities in 52 districts across the country.

As existing large hydropower plants age, questions about refurbishment will continue to arise.

Run - of - river configurations were selected for the Rio Madeira hydropower plants because they virtually eliminate the need for reservoirs and the subsequent flooding of land, greatly reducing the environmental footprint.

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.

Wind power, geothermal energy and mini hydropower plants are to complement the solar resources that are being exploited by private companies, entrepreneurs and civil institutions.

Worldwide, hydropower plants produce about 24 percent of the world's electricity and supply more than 1 billion people with power.

The world's hydropower plants output a combined total of 675,000 megawatts, the energy equivalent of 3.6 billion barrels of oil, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The US has over 2,000 hydropower plants which supplies a 96 % share (in total) or about 50 % from clean usage (or a tad higher) of the total US renewable energy sources making it the largest.

It was also the key topic for First Climate's recent company - wide excursion which took the teams from Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia to the run - of - river hydropower plant at Iffezheim in Southern Germany.

This is realized by a small hydropower plant of 21 MW installed capacity, located in the city of Costa Rica in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Although most of the electricity generated in Brazil is by hydropower plants, the country's electricity matrix expansion is moving toward a larger participation of thermo power generation.

That's bad news for hydropower plants, navigators, property owners, commercial and recreational fishers and anyone who just enjoys the lake.

, the Svartisen ice cap and smaller ice caps and glaciers in the same watershed cover about 50 % of the drainage area that is utilised by the Svartisen hydropower plant in northern Norway (Andreasson et.al., 2005).

Bhutan hopes a new hydropower plant will help lift the country out of poverty while reducing pollution in India

Plans to build about 3,000 hydropower plants in the Balkans in the next few years endanger Europe's last wild rivers and some of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the continent, campaigners said recently.

This includes neutral biomass, solar panels, and hydropower plants.

At least 30 new employees were hired by Reliant or Brookfield at the hydropower plants in Empire Zones since they became certified, he said.

The video recalls that the Amazon Basin recently experienced two 100 - year droughts within five years, causing disruptions to hydropower plants.

It was not too long ago that the world turned to developing small hydropower plants.

Their research reports that nearly 83,000 small hydropower plants are operating or are under construction in 150 countries.

«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.

The country's leading source of electricity also took a big hit, as rain - dependent reservoirs at many of the hydropower plants dropped to critically low levels.

Most nuclear and hydropower plants were built before 1990.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

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.