Sentences with phrase «large hydropower»

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

The groups said 2017 marked the eighth straight year with more than $ 200 billion in worldwide investment in renewable energy technologies, although the nearly $ 280 billion spent on renewable energy projects (excluding large hydropower) lagged the record $ 323.4 billion invested in 2015.

«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»

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.

As existing large hydropower plants age, questions about refurbishment will continue to arise.

Approximately 20 percent of that lending went to energy efficiency and low impact renewables, while about a third went to energy projects that either have significant environmental impacts, such as large hydropower, or were not identifiable as to the energy source, such as transmission and distribution projects.

While pressuring investors to withdraw their support for large hydropower projects has traditionally been the most effective way to stop a dam, occasionally putting pressure on the host government is enough to stop a project in its tracks — as was the case with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Ruth Buendia.

It did not include large hydropower schemes, for which less robust data is available, but Irena estimated this sector to employ 1.3 million people in 2015.

Brazil, best known for getting 80 percent of its electricity from large hydropower, hosts the most wind power capacity in the region — now close to 3,500 megawatts after a 950 - megawatt addition in 2013.

Jackson Morris, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the group does not consider large hydropower to be a renewable resource, although it does not oppose all hydropower.

While large hydropower projects are managed by the central government, and both large and small hydropower projects undergo environmental impact assessments, decisions about small hydropower projects are made at a provincial or other regional level and receive far less oversight, Kibler and Tullos state in their paper.

China, already the world's largest hydropower user, plans to add another 120 gigawatts by 2015 — a crucial step toward greening 15 percent of its power mix by the end of the decade.

Though large hydropower projects are often presented as a «clean and green» source of energy, nothing could be further from the truth: River - wrecking dams are the wrong choice for a warming world.

The World Bank Group (WBG) increased financing for both fossil fuels and large hydropower significantly this past year, while financing for clean energy dropped.

Small - and large - scale hydro technologies represent the lowest - cost technologies in most countries; small hydropower technology is cheapest in China, and large hydropower technology is cheapest in South Korea.

Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large hydropower projects.

Fossil fuels and large hydropower accounted for only 4 percent of energy access financing, showing again that investing in large, conventional energy projects is not an effective way to increase energy access.

The world's largest hydropower event, which can connect you with power producers, product suppliers and hydro industry professionals, is being held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, June 26 - 28 at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Vimal Bhai is the founder of Matu Jan Sangathan, a collective that has been advocating for rights of communities impacted by large hydropower projects and dams in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

In addition, large hydropower capacity is also planned to grow by around a quarter in the same timeframe.

Globally, more than 7.7 million people are employed (directly or indirectly) in the renewable - energy sector (excluding large hydropower).

Thirteen large hydropower dams are proposed for the main stream of the Nu River in Tibet and Yunnan Province in China.

Exploring more refined approaches to existing large hydropower.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

The 181 - metre high Three Gorges Dam — the world's largest hydropower project — will create a 643 - mile long reservoir of Yangzte water, which some critics claim will be the world's largest cesspool.

Large hydropower projects added a net 19 GW to the world's generation capacity last year; small hydro projects added just under 3 GW net.

The wide - ranging proposal builds on a number of previous plans and targets designed to ramp up renewable energy and transition fuels, aggressively consolidate the coal industry, scale up large hydropower, and build a coastal nuclear development zone.

China leads global employment in solar PV, wind, solar heating and cooling, small and large hydropower, biomass and biogas.

Large hydropower projects were the second most prevalent among the controversial project types (following oil and gas production).

Several of the large hydropower projects involved refurbishing existing plants rather than constructing new ones.

China's hydropower flagship is the massive Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project.

2012 Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has been a leading voice of opposition to the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.

Excluding large hydropower, which counts 1.3 million direct jobs worldwide, today the renewables sector employs more than 8.1 million people — a rise of 5 % compared to 7.7 million last year.

The World Bank and other international finance institutions continue to invest in large hydropower and fossil fuels despite a history of environmental devastation, destroyed livelihoods and economic boondoggles.

Kenyan Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has dedicated her life to fighting the construction of the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.

Nuclear power from Diablo Canyon in San Luis Obispo County accounted for 9.15 %, large hydropower 18.3 %, Renewable 16.6 % and coal 1.6 %.

On a average year, the China Three Gorges Corporation spends around $ 1.48 million to clean up floating waste that gathers at the dam, the world's largest hydropower project that environmentalists expected for years to be a problem in terms of sewage and industrial pollution backing up, along with other ecosystem issues.

The power plant on the Rhine is a joint French - German venture and one of the largest hydropower facilities in Europe.