Sentences with phrase «more hydro power»

The founders of the project are now working on expanding the mining capacity by renting more hydro power stations.

There is little potential for more hydro power development in Australia; the country is predominantly low - lying and dry.

Not exact matches

A similar electricity trade applies to all of Canada, where more than 60 % of power produced still comes from hydro.

Price difference makes profitable to export cheaper hydro power from the Nordic market to Germany, which relies more on coal and gas to generate power.

Environmentalists have long urged Ontario to import more clean power from Quebec's hydro - electric dams, but officials always said that would require huge and expensive upgrades to the transmission lines linking the two provinces.

Hydro - Quebec, meanwhile, would combine its extensive hydro - based generation assets with NB Power's thermal - based ones, creating a more efficient and synergistic utility with increased capacity to sell to the lucrative markets in the northeastern United States.

«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

The problem is that Jacobson's plan assumed nearly ten fold increase in hydro power, much of it by adding more generators to existing dams.

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

At Huka Falls you can witness the phenomenon of natural hydro power - more than 220, 000 litres of water per second.

I've told people that Green Mountain Energy provides wind power here for about 1 cent more per KWH & wind / hydro for the same price as fossil fuel electricity, but no one cares to switch.

Boyce observed that coal has been the world's fastest - growing fuel this past decade, with demand growing at nearly twice the rate of natural gas and hydro power and more than four times faster than global oil consumption.

It is one of the few hydro - power stations in Australia to include pumped hydro in which water is pumped from the lower Jounama Pondage to the upper Talbingo Reservoir when electricity is plentiful and cheap, so that it can flow back down through the turbines to generate more electricity at times of higher demand.

seems river deltas have more to worry about from «green» hydro power than coal or oil.

Power generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South AustrPower generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Australia.

On the subject of hydro power it is also worth noting that the province has more than tripled the «water rental» charge from 2002 when OPG produced 34.3 TWh of hydro power and paid a «water rental» of $ 116 million.

At the end of 2010, hydro represented 24 of the 25 oldest operating power facilities in the United States and 72 % of all electric generating capacity more than 60 years old.

Have you heard that if you install solar or hydro power on your home in Costa Rica, you can generate more than you need and sell the rest back to the grid?

Learn more about GE's wind & hydro technology that is used on this power plant and similar projects.

Sweden, which currently gets about 40 % of its energy from hydro power and so on, will be asked to find more than half its energy from renewables, pushing it into unknown territory at unknown cost.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Despite being home to a diverse range of energy resources - from oil and gas in the west to strong hydro - potential in more central regions - Africa still lays claim to severely underdeveloped power sectors in most of its sub-Saharan countries.

Our plant capabilities draw from more than a century's experience in all aspects of hydro power production - from initial studies to design, management, construction, installation, maintenance, operation, and training.

The supply is unreliable, although more consistent than wind generation which is notoriously unreliable and thermal, nuclear, or hydro power (if available) is required to carry sufficient reserve in the grid system to compensate for any changes in solar plant output due to any changes in sunlight during the day.

Pumped hydro is enormously expensive and much more expensive if used for storing energy from intermittent renewable energy supplies as distinct from reliable baseload supplies when power is cheap (midnight to 6 am) for release during the day, regularly almost every day of the year.

An electricity grid powered b y mostly nuclear power (like France) with some pumped hydro and some gas for peaking, abates more CO2 than a mostly renewable energy powered grid, and does so ant about 1/3 the abatement cost.

Wind with pumped hydro energy storage is about 30 times more costly than nuclear to provide reliable dispatchable power.

Once proper carbon, rapid - response and future scarcity price signals are applied, hydro is likely to be a more lucrative form of load balancing power than natural gas, even though both will prosper through premium pricing over the medium term.

I don't know if maintenance of such dams is more difficult than equivalent power generating sources although the possibility of a collapse raises concerns about not just losing hydro electric but substantial risks to population and land.

These customers would pay about 18 % more for a combination of wind and hydro than they currently do for «brown» power.

An even more audacious plan involves connecting Papua - New Guinea (PNG) with Queensland in order to enable PNG's hydro power to flow into Queensland's grid.

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

(October 2, 2017) Nalcor's Muskrat Falls hydro project will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple - digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power.

In 2014, more than half of new energy needs in China were met from renewable sources such as hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar power.»

«A new study called Solar Vision 2025, issued by the Canadian Solar Industry Association and prepared by consultants Ernst & Young, reports the cost of solar power projects will be cut by more than 50 % before 2025, making the solar electricity competitive with electricity generated by oil, gas, hydro or nuclear plants,» said Dr. Shawn Qu, CEO and President of Canadian Solar.

This means more use of batteries, pumped hydro - power, solar - thermal with storage, possibly things like using excess electricity to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen and storing that until it is needed.

Home to more than just SeaWorld and a world - class zoo, the metropolis of San Diego is also one of America's top clean energy cities, pulling in 27 percent of its electricity through biogas, small hydro and solar power.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

If much more wind power is developed, we will have to look at sustainable methods of generating electricity, including pumped hydro - power.

A more environmentally friendly way of generating power at peak load is pumped hydro.

The potential for hydro power in Australia is quite small, and if we dam rivers to get more hydro that will be much more damaging to the environment than will wind power developments.

Electricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro power plants.

I would even favor replacing end of life coal power plants with nuclear, even though nuclear is more expensive than hydro - carbon energy (today).

This isn't something new (Norway does something similar with its hydro power), but as more and more power is generated from intermittent sources, we'll probably see more of it.

Jacob Mack @ 404 — As long as we are treating this off - topic, here in the Pacfic Northwest (BPA's 147 + utility districts only), BPA has made it abundantly clear that their hydro resources (almost all the hydro in the region), can only act as backup for wind power for wind up to 20 % of total installed capacity, not more.

Furthermore, steam engines were noisy and produced air pollution, while the low transport efficiency of DC power excluded the use of more distant, clean hydro power sources.

Actually, hydro power lakes are currently pumping up coal and nuclear power every single night to be able to produce more power during day time!

Solar power more attractive than wind: Executives named solar power as the fourth-most attractive way of generating electricity that's environmentally friendly — behind hydro, natural gas and nuclear.