Sentences with phrase «in small hydro»

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

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The correct values for 2015 are US$ 325 billion in total renewable energy investment, $ 6 billion for biomass & waste, $ 4 billion for small hydro, $ 2 billion for geothermal and $ 0 for marine.

In the aftermath of the worst ice - storm Toronto has ever had (but let's not forget hard - hit smaller municipalities in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.&raquIn the aftermath of the worst ice - storm Toronto has ever had (but let's not forget hard - hit smaller municipalities in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.&raquin Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.»

Water Power Group is a community - based developer of small hydro power projects in Ontario that use low - impact, fish - friendly turbines.

Available in white, black, red, or teal, this small hydro garden has a push - button control panel and a water level view window.

The latest version of the Sensor Fish — a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience — measures more forces, costs about 80 percent less and can be used in more hydro structures than its predecessor, according to a paper published today in the American Institute of Physics» Review of Scientific Instruments.

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.

TORONTO — Ontario home owners, farmers and small businesses will get some relief from soaring electricity prices starting in January when the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax is removed from hydro bills.

It is really important to consider all the other expenses involved in owning a house: property taxes (which have a tendency to increase every year), maintenance, heating, hydro, insurance, water and sewer, all the extra furniture and a small fortune to be spent at Home Depot.

In addition to CareFRESH small animal bedding and CareFRESH Complete foods, Absorption Corporation also manufactures products for oil and hazardous spill cleanup and control, oil / water filtration, hydro - mulch and packaging.

Junior Suite Deluxe Located in the first floor the suite is very spacious and includes a small living room with an inlaid stone fireplace queen sized bedroom and a private bathroom equipped with a hydro massage shower and sauna.

It had only one constraint, AB32, [the state law] that requires 30 % - ish renewables as renewables are defined in California (solar, wind, geothermal, small hydro, ocean systems).

Lovins says renewables (including small hydro and co-generation) account for 47, 58, and 46 % of electricity consumption in Denmark, Portugal and Spain, respectively.

Having previously successfully developed large - scale hydro and geothermal IPPs using conventional legal agreements (such as geothermal concessions modeled on oil and gas production sharing contracts), Indonesia was also developing smaller renewable projects through regulated feed - in tariffs.

Successive studies have shown that CCS is generally more expensive than old hydro and on - shore wind but generally competitive with utility - scale solar PV, geothermal, and new hydro while being lower in cost than small - scale PV, off - shore wind, nuclear, and the many other nascent technologies — especially when the real cost of filling - in for intermittency is included.

In 2015, the small - scale target was introduced, which provides financial incentives to install solar technology, wind turbines, hydro and air - source heat pumps.

Villages with multiple panels or biodigesters or small hydro installations can link them together in microgrids, perhaps backed up by a shared battery.

Wind, solar, biomass and waste - to - power, geothermal, small hydro and marine power contributed an estimated 9.1 % of world electricity generation in 2014, compared to 8.5 % in 2013.

In addition, the GM do Brasil manufacturing facilities in 2013 procured on average 8 MW of small hydro - generated electricitIn addition, the GM do Brasil manufacturing facilities in 2013 procured on average 8 MW of small hydro - generated electricitin 2013 procured on average 8 MW of small hydro - generated electricity.

In November 2003, the South African Government published the White Paper on Renewable Energy setting a target of 10,000 GWh renewable energy contribution to final energy consumption by 2013, to be produced mainly from biomass, wind, solar and small - scale hydro.

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017 finds that wind, solar, biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources added 138.5 gigawatts to global power capacity in 2016, up 8 per cent from the 127.5 gigawatts added the year before.

The complementary solicitations by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York Power Authority will invest up to $ 1.5 billion in wind, commercial solar and solar arrays, small and large - scale hydro, fuel cell and other technologies.

Conversely — and despite inadequate support historically for research and development of renewable energy — wind, solar, geothermal, and small hydro power have all improved in efficiency and availability so that they are finally becoming as viable as they are necessary (as some figures here will attest).

While small in relation to the hydropower potential of southern China, northern China does have some hydro power assets it can exploit, both domestically and in neighboring North Korea and Russia.

Utilities look for «small hydro» opportunities in existing water storage dams and river and canal water flow.

Building a pumped hydro system results in much less environmental damage than building conventional hydro because the storages can be much smaller and pumped hydro can be recharged as often as needed.

I was forced during the 1990's to abandon some 15 small hydro projects in various stages of the permitting process at a loss of $ millions.

This town of over 300 community members has a strong ecosystem based economy, and history of clean energy, having installed their first small, community owned run - of - river hydro project in 1981.

Home to more than just SeaWorld and a world - class zoo, the metropolis of San Diego is also one of America's top clean energy cities, pulling in 27 percent of its electricity through biogas, small hydro and solar power.

The potential for hydro power in Australia is quite small, and if we dam rivers to get more hydro that will be much more damaging to the environment than will wind power developments.

Small, micro - and pico - hydro projects have even lower environmental impact and in places without grid access can be a great (if inherently limited) source of electricity.

On pumped hydro see also the proposals for cliff top seawater tanks http://www.ret.gov.au/energy/Documents/cei/acre-sub/029-ProfessorPeterSeligman.pdf A small test plant exists in Okinawa Japan.

She has installed a small hydro - electric plant developed on a rushing stream in the estate forest.

She has a small hydro - electric plant developed on a stream in the estate forest that generates enough to supply electricity to the 1,000 residents in the area with the excess sold to the national grid.

RIFKIN: Distributed energies are found in every square inch of the biosphere: the sun, wind, geothermal heat under the ground, agricultural and forestry residue and waste, ocean tides and waves, small hydro and garbage.

But large hydro projects are not included in the UNEP's definition of «renewable», though small hydro is:

He also acted as lead counsel for the General Service Small / General Service Medium customer class in a multi-week hearing before the Manitoba Public Utilities Board for the first Cost of Service Review of Manitoba hydro in over 10 years, and is acting for acting for SNC - Lavalin as a plaintiff in a multimillion - dollar coverage claim as against its insurer with respect to an E&O claim regarding a major infrastructure project in Manitoba.

At present, more than 670 run - of - river power plants and some 1,800 small - scale hydro power stations are in operation, which generate approx. 60 % of Austria's electricity needs.