Sentences with phrase «hydropower provided»

Two new «units» of wind provided 203 MW, five units of solar provided 156 MW, 1 unit of biomass provided 5 MW, and 1 unit of hydropower provided 0.2 MW.

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.

Hydropower provides a significant amount of electricity but that's limited.

Hydropower provides more than two - thirds of the electricity in Brazil and met 11 % of total energy demand in 2016.

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

Not exact matches

«It is a fact that the wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine, and in those parts of the world... large European markets like Germany, for example, that don't have enough hydropower, the importance of gas in providing security of supply will be extremely important.»

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

Supporters say that shifting to the new regulations will provide for a more natural water level and boost hydropower, but is opposed by elected officials who represent the southern shore of the lake.

Buhari said while the borrowed funds would be used to finance the deficit in the 2017 budget, they would provide funding for the capital projects in the budget, including the Mambilla hydropower project; construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; counterpart funding for rail projects; and the construction of the Bodo - Bonny road, with a bridge across the Opobo Channel.

The New York Power Authority is providing low - cost hydropower.

The following statements were provided in support of the Governor's approval of long - term contract extensions for low - cost hydropower to Western New York's companies:

Congressman Chris Lee said: «Extending the existing contracts for the sale of hydropower to Western New York will sustain and create jobs in our communities and provide additional wide - ranging economic benefits.

The hydropower is provided at rates that are more than 50 percent less than current wholesale market prices in the State.

NYPA's Niagara Power Project hydropower is provided under State law to Western New York companies under two power programs, known as Replacement Power (RP) and Expansion Power (EP).

The administration has said hydropower could provide about 1,000 MW of replacement energy and transmission upgrades and energy efficiency, along with other renewable resources, will ensure the plant is replaced without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Released on 16 June in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol provides a method for assessing dams in all phases, from development to operation.

«Hydropower is an essential source of electricity in California providing, on average, 15 percent of our annual generation,» California Energy Commission Chairman Robert Weisenmiller said in a news release on the study.

He points out that the Amazon alone releases twenty billion tons of water into the atmosphere daily, providing free air - conditioning, free irrigation, free hydropower.

Their paper, the first to provide a global synthesis of the science and policy of small hydropower, appears this month in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Windfarms are Australia's No. 2 renewable energy source, behind hydropower but ahead of solar, providing a quarter of the country's clean energy and 4 percent of its total energy demand.

PNNL researchers are working with officials and scientists from Laos, Brazil, and Australia — areas where hydropower is booming — to apply lessons learned from experience in the Pacific Northwest, where salmon is king and water provides about two - thirds of the region's power.

Whereas hydropower used to provide the bulk of Kenya's power ongoing droughts have led investors to pull out of hydro projects; power rationing and epic blackouts are common.

Ultimately, the judge's rulings could have a profound affect on the Northwest region by altering the way it manages hydropower, which provides cheap electricity to millions of residents and businesses and a river transportation system for farmers to ship their goods to international markets.

In addition to providing hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell stores water from the upper basin states and releases it into downstream Lake Mead to ensure the upper basin states meet their obligations under the 1922 compact.

The current fossil fuel energy pricing reality along with new exploration and production technology is providing an economic basis for an immediate, practical transition and conversion to greener energy supplies of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower.

Historically, the tribal experience with increasing energy demands here has been catastrophic: tribes along the Missouri River were flooded by dams constructed to provide hydropower and flood control benefits for downstream communities.

Northwest: Relying on hydropower to provide 60 percent of its electricity generation means the Northwest is particularly susceptible to shifting rain, snowpack and runoff patterns.

And, for the first time, wind and solar combined have provided more electricity year - to - date (113,971 thousand megawatt - hours (TMWh)-RRB- than has hydropower (111,750 TMWh).

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.

Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76 % of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels.

The construction and operation of over 1 million dams globally (Lehner et al. 2011) has provided a variety of services important to a growing human population (e.g., hydropower, flood control, navigation, and water supply), but has also significantly altered water, nutrient, and ecosystem dynamics and fluxes in river networks.

With the need for better global water management and the push for expanded global hydropower capacity, careful siting of new reservoirs, and revising management of existing ones may help balance the positive ecosystem services that reservoirs provide against the GHG emission costs.

The publication provides highlights across the full range of TCPs, from high - temperature superconductors in wind power, to vegetable oil as an alternate motor fuel, to the wildlife management in the sustainable use of hydropower.

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.

If the authors are counting on hydropower for backup, they should recognize that there are very few, if any, areas in the U.S. where enough hydropower is available to provide back up for the authorsí proposed massive shift toward wind energy.

Large - scale hydropower dams certainly can provide a lot of power and are a renewable resource — assuming the water source doesn't decline, an real concern with climate change but something beyond the scope of this piece.

They provide drinking water for villages and cities, irrigation water for farms, and fuel for hydropower plants.

Hydropower dams provide power to the Pacific Northwest, but in some cases, that benefit is outweighed by the damage the dams do to rivers.

While the country is scaling up its renewable energy, up to 15 percent of its energy needs by 2020, or 20 gigawatts (coal currently provides 67 percent of the country's energy), by 2020, the country wants to nearly triple its hydropower capacity, to 300 gigawatts.

Looking at March alone, solar (151 MW), wind (93 MW), and hydropower (1 MW) provided 84.5 % of new capacity.

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