Sentences with phrase «new hydropower»

This means that Hydro - Quebec can not cover the needs of all the Bitcoin miners looking to move to Quebec and the current population and industry, and it has no plans to build new hydropower plants.

The article «A decade on, controversy still surrounds China's Three Gorges Dam» in the journal Probe International says, «Despite the problems, the Three Gorges will be joined by a wave of new hydropower projects over the next decade — mostly spread across China's mountainous and earthquake prone southwest.»

However, in February 2011, Chinese officials revealed plans to resume the Nu River dams as part of China's 12th Five - Year Plan, which aims to add up to 140 GW of new hydropower capacity to meet its renewable energy targets.

A new report from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimates that there is potential for over 65 GW of new hydropower development across more than three million rivers and streams in the United States.

Bhutan hopes a new hydropower plant will help lift the country out of poverty while reducing pollution in India

Hydro - Québec petitioned the Public Service Commission to allow large - scale and incremental new hydropower to get the same subsidies as new solar or wind projects but was rejected.

Not exact matches

David Youlen, an executive who managed the New York hydropower plants for Reliant and now runs them for Brookfield Asset Management, said those companies have invested $ 33 million to fix their hydro plants in the past three years.

The New York Power Authority was created in 1931 to create cheap hydropower out of the rocky rapids on the St. Lawrence River.

Governor Paterson Approves Hydropower Contract Extensions with More Than 100 Western New York Companies Tuesday December 21, 2010 at 01:42 pm

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the time of the Indian Point closure announcement that up to 1,000 megawatts of power could come from the planned $ 2.2 billion Champlain Hudson Power Express project, which would bring hydropower from Canada to the New York metropolitan area.

Instead, the 333 - mile Champlain Hudson Express line proposed by Transmission Developers would carry Canadian hydropower to New York City through a pair of five - inch underground copper cables.

43North has been the single largest recipient of a special fund created to ensure Western New York gets its fair share of profits from the sale of hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston.

Greenport Electric isn't listed but its rates, which like Rockville Centre's and Freeport's are subsidized by cheap hydropower from New York Power Authority, are on par with those two Long Island municipal utilities.

The Northern New York Power Proceeds Act will generate an estimated $ 2 million a year from the sale of 20 megawatts of hydropower.

Supporters say that shifting to the new regulations will provide for a more natural water level and boost hydropower, but is opposed by elected officials who represent the southern shore of the lake.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

The village's contract with the New York Power Authority to transmit hydropower generated from Niagara Falls expires next month.

The additional fee was needed to cover a hike in the village's new long - term transmission agreement with the New York Power Authority, which transmits hydropower generated in Niagara Falls to Greenport, according to Mayor David Nynew long - term transmission agreement with the New York Power Authority, which transmits hydropower generated in Niagara Falls to Greenport, according to Mayor David NyNew York Power Authority, which transmits hydropower generated in Niagara Falls to Greenport, according to Mayor David Nyce.

«I'm delighted that Hadley Exhibits, a Western New York firm, was chosen for the comprehensive renovation of one of Western New York's key educational and tourist destinations — the Power Vista Visitors Center, in spotlighting the historic role of hydropower along the Niagara Frontier,» said Senator George Maziarz.

The New York Power Authority is providing low - cost hydropower.

Using existing hydropower rather than pushing to build out renewable energy resources in New York would not contribute to the state's clean energy goals, said Alliance for Clean Energy's Anne Reynolds.

Chaired by northern New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of the 21st district, the panel held a hearing Monday on the challenges and opportunities for millennials in the hydropower industry.

Transmission Developers Inc., also submitted a petition requesting the Public Service Commission clarify that a utility could use imported large - scale hydropower not sold into New York's market to meet its obligations for renewable energy.

Hydropower projects involving new dams are also not eligible for certain renewable subsitide.

«It would be a missed opportunity if we ended up importing hydropower from another country rather than investing in renewable energy in New York,» she said during an interview on «The Capitol Pressroom.»

Much like the City of Plattsburgh, whose Common Council last month imposed a moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mining operations due to concerns over energy consumption and fire suppression, the Village of Rouses Point is allocated a comparatively small amount of cheap hydropower each month, around 13,844 kilowatts.

Western New York's major energy - intensive industries are dependent on our low - cost hydropower to remain competitive in today's global market.

Praxair, a global chemical company serving the aerospace, food and beverages, healthcare and semiconductors industries with facilities in Erie and Niagara Counties, receives low - cost hydropower that supports its more than 1,300 employees in its Western New York facilities.

The following statements were provided in support of the Governor's approval of long - term contract extensions for low - cost hydropower to Western New York's companies:

These extensions of hydropower contracts are key to assuring local job retention and growth, as well as new capital investment.

Congressman Chris Lee said: «Extending the existing contracts for the sale of hydropower to Western New York will sustain and create jobs in our communities and provide additional wide - ranging economic benefits.

In addition, recipients must also undertake capital investments at their Western New York facilities receiving the hydropower which collectively will total approximately $ 150 million a year over the term of the extensions.

Electricity costs are frustratingly high in New York State, so it is important that our valuable hydropower resource be used here to aid these businesses and the workers, families and communities that depend on them.»

NYPA's Niagara Power Project hydropower is provided under State law to Western New York companies under two power programs, known as Replacement Power (RP) and Expansion Power (EP).

D. Patrick Curley, a NYPA trustee from Orchard Park, said: «The considerable economic activity that the hydropower customers generate in Western New York underscores the importance of the contract extensions.

The new contracts, most of which extend over seven years, from 2013 to 2020, contain increased job thresholds that hydropower recipients must meet and maintain for the term of the contract, and, for the first time, include annual capital investment commitments over the lifetime of the agreements.

WHITE PLAINS — The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced today that it received the Outstanding Stewards of America's Waters (OSAW) Award at the National Hydropower Association's (NHA) annual conference and luncheon in Washington, D.C..

The lawmaker is a member of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus and has discussed the need to develop clean and renewable energy in New York's 21st Congressional District, including wind and hydropower as part of an «all of the above» energy approach.

«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

One showcase for the new technology is the extra-high-voltage HVDC line that China is building to feed electricity from Xiangjiaba, one of its western hydropower megaprojects, to Shanghai.

Remote dams around the world already deliver hydropower via HVDC lines, including a 1,480 - kilometer (920 - mile) link that has carried energy from James Bay in northern Quebec to New England since 1990.

«Hydropower dam energy without sacrificing Mekong food supply: New research offers solution.»

This new study expands the research to a global level, using data from 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants worldwide.

While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be economically and environmentally competitive options and can contribute significantly to the rising demand.

Reference: Z.D. Deng, J. Lu, M.J. Myjak, J.J. Martinez, C. Tian, S.J. Morris, T.J. Carlson, D. Zhou & H. Hou, «Design and Implementation of a new Autonomous Sensor Fish to Support Advanced Hydropower Development,» Review of Scientific Instruments, Nov. 4, 2014, DOI: 10.1063 / 1.4900543.

There are plenty of products out there for charging your gadgets off grid, mostly solar - powered ones, so it caught my attention when a new technology launched on Kickstarter that could charge your devices with hydropower.

Now, Bhutan plans to build an array of new dams and quickly ramp up hydropower capacity to 10,000 MW by 2020 — a goal that is becoming increasingly controversial.

New York had some plans to go from renewable energy to renewable - er energy, with hydropower to hydrogen in a $ 21 project near Niagara Falls.

We've covered a few previous thermoelectric devices meant for personal use, but there's a new entry in the market from a company that also sells «a tiny hydropower turbine in a can.»

The current fossil fuel energy pricing reality along with new exploration and production technology is providing an economic basis for an immediate, practical transition and conversion to greener energy supplies of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower.