«If there is a lack of demand during the daylight hours, then there is going to be a direct influence on the ability to sell hydropower, which is in a must - run scenario during springtime,» said Gregg Carrington, managing director of energy resources at the Chelan County Public Utility District,
a hydropower producer in Washington State.
Even in Canada, the second largest
hydropower producer in the world, 76 % of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels.
Brazil is the world's second largest
hydropower producer after China.
Fleten, Stein - Erik and Bråthen, Espen and Nissen - Meyer, Sigurd - Erik (2010): Evaluation of static hedging strategies for
hydropower producers in the Nordic market.
Not exact matches
** Russia's En + Group, which manages businessman Oleg Deripaska's aluminium and
hydropower businesses, plans to close a deal with Glencore to convert its stake in aluminium
producer Rusal into En + by the end of the first quarter, En + Chief Executive Maxim Sokov told Reuters.
TVA is also one of the nation's largest
producers of
hydropower, which like nuclear generation emits no greenhouse gases but has other environmental downsides.
Brazil, the second - largest
producer of
hydropower worldwide, gets 86 percent of its electricity from water resources.
Hydropower can respond to these ramps faster than almost any other energy
producer.
Canada was the largest
producer of
hydropower in the world in 2000, and hydro sources are not yet believed to be fully exploited.
The extra that consumers pay for their power funds investment by power
producers in alternative - energy sources such as
hydropower, solar and wind.