Sentences with phrase «largest hydroelectric dam»

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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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.

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 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.

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.

«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!»

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.

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.

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.

From National Geographic: This is much more than an academic exercise in a region that's home to one of the largest networks of hydroelectric dams in the United States, a recent boom in wind installations, and state mandates for renewables on the grid.

The size of hydroelectric power generators also varies; in fact, the largest plant in the United States is the hydroelectric plant at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, with a capacity of 7,079 MW.

New hydroelectric dams will be the largest contributor to that growth, China will still be adding both solar and wind facilities to its mix at a break - neck speed.

The reason why tropical hydroelectric dams, especially those with large reservoirs, undermine those goals is because they emit methane (CH4).

Large - scale hydroelectric dams continue to be built in many parts of the world (including China and Brazil), but it is unlikely that new facilities will be added to the existing US fleet in the future.

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

The Columbia and Snake Rivers have a large number of run - of - river hydroelectric dams and a smaller number of larger dams with reservoirs designed to control the flow of water on the river.

In 2010, the governments of Brazil and Peru signed a bilateral energy agreement that called for a series of large - scale hydroelectric dams in the Amazon.

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

The largest renewable energy project, hydroelectric dams, has liability limits, too.

I describe a recent resurgence in the construction of hydroelectric dams, both large and small, around the world, spurred, in substantial part, by their newfound description as a form of «clean energy» capable of mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions largely responsible for anthropogenic contributions to global climate change.

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

MONY has also been active in helping communities, such as its financial assistance, along with large and small banks, in building a $ 28 million hydroelectric dam project in Massachusetts in 1976.