Sentences with phrase «largest hydroelectric»

Representing Brazilian contractors and the project developer in multiple arbitrations against insurers, in a dispute concerning one of the largest hydroelectric power projects in the world.

Southern Company is the largest US player in carbon sequestration, is behind the 2nd largest solar power generation plant in the US (and several lesser ones), is the only company currently building new nuclear power plants in the US, has the US's largest biomass power generation plant, is only the 7th largest hydroelectric power generator in the US but is trying to expand, and is invested heavily in wind power research.

After decades of protests against what would be the world's third largest hydroelectric facility, Brazilian officials finally approved construction on the controversial dam at Belo Monte just one month ago — but hope is

Brazil's proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over.

Cameron went to «Brazil to protest against Amazonian dam that would be world's 3rd - largest hydroelectric project»

Before the accident, it was the largest power plant in Russia and the sixth - largest hydroelectric plant in the world.

Basic layout of a run - on - the - river / Yangtze River in China is currently the world largest hydroelectric dam.

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Central America's largest hydroelectric project is officially online.

The world's largest hydroelectric power conference and event is now under way in downtown Denver as more than 3,000 attendees representing over 50 countries have gathered for HydroVision International 2017.

The company she is battling is one of the world's largest gold mining companies, whereas Cáceres had been fighting one of Latin America's largest hydroelectric dam projects that would destroy the lands of the indigenous Lenca people.

«The Nicaraguan government is trying to change the matrix of its energy supply, and to do so we need to preserve and conserve our nature reserves and forests so we can have the water we need to run what will be Central America's largest hydroelectric plant, Tumarin,» says Col Juan Ramon Morales, commander of the Ecological Battalion.

It is the world's largest hydroelectric dam and is considered a miraculous modern engineering feat.

Photo: The desolated village of Arenal, with a main street paved by lava, was covered a few years later when Costa Rica's largest hydroelectric project, the Lake Arenal Dam, created an extensive water reservoir.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

Goupitan, the largest hydroelectric generator in Guizhou province, reportedly produced only 10 percent of its normal output per day, due to shrinking water flows.

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, sealed off the river in June, creating a lake that will eventually stretch for 375 miles and generate 85 billion kilowatt hours of pollution - free electricity a year.

This is eight times the capacity of the Aswan Dam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in Paraguay.

A trip down the Yangtze River — home of the world's largest hydroelectric dam — offers a glimpse into China's past and future

But, because Niagara County is home to the fourth largest hydroelectric power plant in the in the US, Ceretto has collected thousands of signatures on a petition seeking direct representation.

The project which is estimated to cost $ 100 billion, and if completed would be the world's largest hydroelectric plant is more than twice the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China.

The study tracked the near - complete extinction of native small mammals on forest islands created by a large hydroelectric reservoir, built in 1986.

And that doesn't count the large hydroelectric dams.

For every large hydroelectric dam, 10 small dams exist.

Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.

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.

The vast majority of that power came from traditional, large hydroelectric dams.

«Each one of these loops carries as much energy as a large hydroelectric plant, such as the Hoover dam, generates in about a million years!»

The Indian government has put large hydroelectric projects on the Indus in Kashmir, and the vast majority of electricity created by these dams is routed south out of the state of Jammu - Kashmir.

As it was written, medium to large hydroelectric facilities were discouraged, mostly due to their greater impact on the ecosystems in which they would be located.

Wood and municipal waste provide 1.3 %, and conventional hydroelectric 6 % (but large hydroelectric power is generally excluded from RPS calculations).

Instead, OPG's mandate has been to maintain its fossil fuel, nuclear and hydroelectric fleet of generation, and pursue new large hydroelectric projects.

And I will mention that India has a large hydroelectric sector and hydroelectricity works very well in conjunction with wind and solar.

The rest is made up mainly of large hydroelectric dams and a nuclear plant, deemed by most alternative - energy experts as unsustainable and hence not renewable.

1888: Stetson initiates the construction of the first large hydroelectric power plant in America, at Niagara Falls, New York, and at the same time establishes the standard for the American electric system.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, its elevated terrain creates fast - running waterways that flow into the Missouri River and its tributaries, providing the resources for Montana to become the seventh - largest producer of hydroelectric power in the country.

It is the largest municipally - owned producer of green power in the province, with hydroelectric and landfill gas - to - energy generating facilities.

Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam is the largest operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capaHydroelectric Dam is the largest operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capahydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capacity of 14GW.

The country has a large number of geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, which provide a massive electricity surplus to the island nation.

The county also has a large natural gas power plant and hydroelectric facilities.

He criticised the Environment Agency for blocking small - scale hydroelectric energy schemes but said the main focus should be on larger solutions.

Originally called the Boulder Dam, this hydroelectric power station held the title of «world's largest» until 1945 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam.

The research was conducted in concert with the Boise - based Idaho Power Company, which provides a large percentage of its electrical power through hydroelectric dams.

The U.S. needs a new transmission backbone that crisscrosses the country, knitting together many large wind farms, solar - energy fields, geothermal pools, hydroelectric generators and other alternative sources.

At the EVA International, their work will be woven into Guerrero's larger curatorial vision, which is based on Ardnacrusha, a hydroelectric dam built in 1925 in Ireland that represented technological progress and the promise of modernity.

But does that industry require large amounts of energy, more than could be derived from say a small hydroelectric plant?

While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.

In Guatemala, for example, Mayan communities have been displaced from their lands by large - scale hydroelectric projects.

«As of 2009, the hydroelectric plant is the third - largest in the world, with 10,200 MW capacity.»

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.