Sentences with phrase «large hydro plants»

Over the full year 2017 renewable energy sources excluding large hydro plants represented 31 % of California's in - state electricity generation.

Australian coal - fired electricity is almost the cheapest power on the planet — rivalled only by some large hydro plants.

Not exact matches

Newfoundland and Labrador is constructing the massive Lower Churchill hydropower facility, and Manitoba is expected to begin building the Conawapa Generating Station, which would be the largest hydro - electric plant in the province's north.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

E. g. if the sunlight is collected in outer space by large but practical thin plastic mirrors, it can be directed to any place on earth, preferably near existing hydro - electric plants, so that it would not be necessary to greatly increase the existing electric grid, all without any really new technology.

That opened a downstream channel large enough to flow 13,000 cfs through Oroville's Hyatt Power Plant's hydro turbines, barely keeping up with low inflows (DWR 2017e).

Nuclear power plants require enormous amounts of fresh water to operate — they are on rank 3 on the largest water footprint of energy sources after hydro - electric power (obviously) and shortly behind coal — leaving all other energy sources way behind, including gas, wind, solar, etc..

Power variability from renewables could be addressed through storage, hydro, larger power networks, existing nuclear baseload, and lastly through existing natural gas plants.

15 GWe is 3 x large nuclear power plants 15 GWe is 3 x large hydro power plants 15 GWe is 15 x biggest Wind farms 15 GWe is 30 x biggest PV solar plants 15 GWe is 40 x Ivanpah CS solar plants

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

Several other counties in the EU, do however have very large hydro capacities (there is 30GW in Norway alone) and some of these reservoirs are now being converted to pumped storage; e.g. Germany's Thuringia State has identified 13 potential sites, including 3 existing dams, for constructing pumped - storage plants that would total 5,130 MW.