Sentences with phrase «including hydropower»

In fact, you could easily argue that China has already done far more than the U.S. to transform its energy supply: Including hydropower, renewables now make up 20 percent of the energy mix (compared to 13 percent in the U.S.), a share targeted to double by 2030.

Including hydropower changes the picture dramatically.

«Renewable energy sources, including hydropower, now account for 16.3 % of total installed U.S. operating generating capacity: water - 8.58 %, wind - 5.27 %, biomass - 1.37 %, solar - 0.75 %, and geothermal steam - 0.33 %.

«To even come close to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, 50 percent of our energy will need to come from renewable sources by 2028, and today it is only 9 percent, including hydropower.

The country already produces nearly 80 % of its power from clean sources, including hydropower, geothermal, and wind farms.

All renewable energy sources — including hydropower, biofuels, solar and geothermal power — made up 17 percent of total output, compared with almost 63 percent for fossil fuels.

Other possibilities include hydropower and a greater emphasis on fishery development, which could draw funding for both government and private commercial fishing enterprises.

The definition of renewables includes hydropower, wind and wave power, solar and geothermal energy and combustible renewables and renewable waste (landfill gas, waste incineration, solid biomass and liquid biofuels).

«WEO 2001 Insights» pays particular attention to renewable energy sources, which include hydropower, wind and solar power, biomass, photovoltaic and hydrogen cells and tidal power.

Not exact matches

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is the steward and manager of America's natural resources including oil, gas, clean coal, hydropower, and renewable energy sources.

Cuomo has received significantly more from Brookfield when all of their subsidiaries (eg, «Erie Boulevard Hydropower, LP,» «FH OPCO LLC») are included in the total.

Still, there are obstacles, including the recent low prices of natural gas, which makes hydropower less competitive.

Incentives included sales and property tax breaks from the Lockport Industrial Development Agency, an allocation of discounted hydropower and a federal grant.

The nearly $ 2 million in earnings will come from the sale of hydropower that in 2012 was made available to the town of Massena to allocate to businesses in consultation with local economic development organizations, including the St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency and the St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency Local Development Corporation.

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.

NYPA spokesman Micheal Saltzman explains the Authority supplies hydropower to community - owned electric systems including the Green Island Power Authority.

Under the contract extensions, the businesses receiving hydropower, including those in such major industries as automotive, chemicals, metals, printing and food - processing, each must meet an agreed - upon «base employment level.»

In addition to Praxair, some of the more than 100 companies that receive low - cost hydropower from the Niagara Power Project include Ford Motor Company, 3M, DuPont, General Mills and Nestle Purina.

The new contracts, most of which extend over seven years, from 2013 to 2020, contain increased job thresholds that hydropower recipients must meet and maintain for the term of the contract, and, for the first time, include annual capital investment commitments over the lifetime of the agreements.

The lawmaker is a member of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus and has discussed the need to develop clean and renewable energy in New York's 21st Congressional District, including wind and hydropower as part of an «all of the above» energy approach.

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.

Other technologies — including geothermal, marine energy and small hydropower — received one - year extensions to their 30 percent ITC under the joint spending and tax measures passed Friday and expected to be signed by President Obama this week.

Remote dams around the world already deliver hydropower via HVDC lines, including a 1,480 - kilometer (920 - mile) link that has carried energy from James Bay in northern Quebec to New England since 1990.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

Analysis to date includes photovoltaics (PV), wind, geothermal, biomass and hydropower resources.

«The options for large - scale clean electricity are few in number,» Sachs noted, including geothermal, hydropower, nuclear, solar and wind.

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.

Among these include covering energy needs from renewable sources, which Costa Rica has successfully achieved by about 95 %, mostly with hydropower, followed by geothermal, wind, solar and biomass sources.

Only about 12 GW of the nation's reliably available capacity of 160 GW is currently met by renewables, which includes wind power to a minor extent, and is mostly hydropower.

China Three Gorges continues to expand its hydropower investments, including in the China - Pakistan Economic Corridor, with a combined $ 5.7 bn investment in Pakistan.

Our project experience encompasses a wide range of technologies, including mid-sized wind, solar, small hydropower, biomass fuel substitution, biogas production, methane destruction at dairy farms and landfills, transportation efficiency and residential water filtration in developing countries.

For example, unlimited amounts of new and existing zero - emission non-hydropower renewable generation are included in the generation base used to calculate compliance, which makes the non-hydropower renewable generation more valuable for compliance than existing hydropower and new and existing nuclear generation that do not receive similar treatment.

note 2; hydropower, including tidal and wave, from IEA, Renewables in Global Energy Supply: An IEA Fact Sheet, pp. 13, 25, at www.iea.org/textbase; rooftop solar water and space heaters from IEA, Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21, op.

That includes a renewed emphasis on nuclear, but we can not ignore the contributions that hydropower, solar and to a lesser extent wind, geothermal and biofuels can play.

Clean electricity, their aides explained, includes wind, solar, and hydropower; nuclear energy; and even fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, as long as those are burned in plants that capture the CO2 emissions and trap them underground.

Yet glaciers in the tropical Andes have been shrinking, including Peru's Qori Kalis glacier; and as glaciers disappear, water supplies for hydropower are likely to be threatened over the long run.1

The price of «firm» contracts for hydropower and onshore wind is not certain, but it must include the cost of the transmission necessary to deliver the hydropower from Canada, Shattuck said.

The report forecasts that all types of clean energy, including bioenergy - for - power and hydropower, will be in the cost range of fossil fuels within the next two years.

Tier II sources include: waste coal, large - scale hydropower, municipal solid waste, integrated combined coal gasification technology, utilizing wood pulping, employing distribution generation systems, and demand - side management use.

Several generation resources are also fully permitted and readily available to come online by 2021, after the plant's closure, including clean, renewable hydropower able to replace up to 1,000 megawatts of power.

Another 7.5 percent of sales must come from any combination of «Tier I» sources, which include both renewable sources (solar, wind, hydropower, and geothermal) and non-renewable sources (coal - mine methane, biomass, and wood manufacturing waste products).

Tier I sources include: solar thermal, wind power, low - impact hydropower, geothermal energy, biologically derived methane gas, fuel cells, biomass energy, coal mine methane, black liquor (PA only), and large - scale hydropower (certain restrictions apply).

A number of African and small Asian countries also generate virtually all of their electricity with hydropower, including Bhutan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nepal, and Zambia.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

The government's recent energy plan included several large hydropower projects in the Amazon region.

The report includes all biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million liters or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small - scale projects, or small distributed capacity.

The renewables JV would be based in France and include the offshore wind and hydropower business of Alstom.

Backed by the governments of Canada, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden and by 17 companies, including BP, Deutsche Bank, and Mitsubishi, the $ 135 million fund invested in forests in Romania, hydropower in Costa Rica, and wind farms in China.

Strong support also exists for increasing other renewables, including wind (64 %) and hydropower (58 %).