Sentences with phrase «new hydropower projects»
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.»
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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.
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.
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.
Hydropower projects involving new dams are also not eligible for certain renewable subsitide.
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).
«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.
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.
Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large hydropower projects.
While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.
Washington DC — According to the latest «Energy Infrastructure Update» report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower provided 88.2 % of new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity for the month of May.
Several of the large hydropower projects involved refurbishing existing plants rather than constructing new ones.
Friday, April 27th at 7:30 pm, Hartland Public Library Community Room, Hartland Three Corners Free film screening «SEEKING THE CURRENT ««Seeking the Current» depicts the voyage of the filmmakers Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere, canoeing the entire course of the pristine Romaine River one year before Hydro - Quebec started construction on a new $ 8 billion complex of hydropower projects there.
However, International Rivers says there has been no substantial jump in hydropower development to match the large number of supposedly new projects applying to generate CDM credits.
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«New York's major hydropower resources and all existing and proposed wind power projects are located in northern and western regions of the state — hundreds of miles from the high - demand metropolitan regions of southeastern New York,» the report reads.
Our counseling also extends to the business side of hydropower operations by assisting companies with financing and developing new projects as well as buying and selling existing, licensed projects.