Sentences with phrase «large hydropower plants»
As existing large hydropower plants age, questions about refurbishment will continue to arise.
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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.
Questioned about the environmental impacts of building large hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon, she said Brazil can not relinquish hydropower yet — «It would be like giving up fracking in the U.S.» — but she hopes solar and wind power generation will take its place overtime.
Several of the large hydropower projects involved refurbishing existing plants rather than constructing new ones.
And the Moses Lake plant — one of the largest CFRP plants on earth — draws its energy from locally - sourced hydropower.
The US has over 2,000 hydropower plants which supplies a 96 % share (in total) or about 50 % from clean usage (or a tad higher) of the total US renewable energy sources making it the largest.
But the Sierra Club has actively lobbied against large - scale hydropower because the plants could disrupt fish habitats.