Sentences with phrase «new hydropower plants»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

Several of the large hydropower projects involved refurbishing existing plants rather than constructing new ones.

This not only includes renewables, but also including the adoption of state - of - the - art technologies for new coal power plants as well as construction of more hydropower.

What's needed, Loutan said, is pricing incentives that encourage these hydropower plants to run full - bore during the steep new ramping periods.

South Consolidated Hydroelectric Unit constructed in 1981 on the South Canal 35 foot drop 1,400 kW capacity Crosscut Hydroelectric Plant began commercial operation in 1915 on the Crosscut Canal 116 foot drop 3,000 kW capacity Arizona Falls, a low - head hydropower system, is the Valley's newest hydroelectric generation station /

Remember, you can build all the capacity you want, but in an integrated grid that new gas power plant is competing with wind, solar, hydropower and other renewables.