Sentences with phrase «of hydro capacity»

It now has about 200,000 MW of hydro capacity.

It uses the power output at 30 minute intervals over 2 years and calculates the amount of hydro capacity and storage and the area that would be inundated if pairs of dams with 150 m average elevation difference were available.

«No one believes we can leave the Amazon completely untouched, nor do we believe we can use 100 percent of the hydro capacity,» said Schaeffer.

Not exact matches

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

Hydropower currently accounts for more than 75 percent of Brazil's electric energy generation, but only a little more than a third of the country's hydro capacity has been tapped.

SARAJEVO (Reuters)- Serbian power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) said on Thursday high water levels on the Morava river have forced it to halt two hydro power plants with a combined capacity of 34 megawatts.

GE's hydro turbines and generators represent more than 25 % of the total installed capacity worldwide.

Additionally, the pumped - storage plant itself effectively increased the company's efficiency (by pumping water to a holding pond at night thereby taking advantage of unused generating capacity) while improving its environmental credentials (the hydro plant emitted no air pollution).

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

«China's focus on increasing domestic capacity in this realm is a probable prelude to the rollout of such products in international markets, an eventuality that has been seen now for many decades with Chinese hydro technology, particularly in developing countries.»

If the capacity of the links was greatly increased mainland Australia could feed large amounts of solar power into the Tasmania when it was plentiful, and Tasmania's hydro power could be conserved for the times when wind and solar were less plentiful on the mainland.

Norway, for example, holds hydro reservoirs of 84 TWh — half of all Europe's hydro storage capacity — and already acts as a «green battery» for Denmark and the Netherlands.

Located in Chamoli district, this project is a run - of - river hydro power plant with an aggregated installed capacity of 400 MW.

An upcoming series of Today in Energy articles will examine trends in generating capacity additions by fuel type, for coal, hydro, nuclear, natural gas, petroleum, and wind.

Its clean energy portfolio, which accounts for over 18 % of the total equity capacity at end - 2011, includes hydro - electric, solar, wind and biomass plants.

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.

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

There simply is not the available undeveloped capacity to grow hydro a great deal more, and certainly not to maintain it's proportion of total electricity generation.

Hydropower generation resources are clustered unevenly around the country, with over half of U.S. hydro capacity concentrated in three States: Washington, Oregon, and California.

«Outside the OECD, coal generation in China, the centre of global coal demand, decreased in 2015 due to a reduction in electricity demand, coupled with an increased generation from hydro and nuclear.1 Despite the decrease in generation in 2015, 52 GW of coal - fired generation capacity was added in China in 2015, and roughly 150 GW is currently under construction.

Here's the history of additions to electric generation capacity by renewables excluding big hydro, along with successive WEO projections:

This comprises of 100 GW from solar, with 40 GW from rooftop solar alone, plus 60 GW of new capacity from wind, 10 GW from biomass and 5 GW from small hydro.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

E.ON now has more than 5 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity; including its hydro assets, the company has nearly 11 gigawatts of renewables capacity in operation.

Given that there is only limited capacity to expand hydro (Turnbull's Snowy 2.0 is years away, if it ever happens) and that successive governments have made a mess of gas policy, any serious expansion of dispatchable power would realistically need to focus on batteries.

Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 % was wind, 16 % was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 % was hydro and biomass.&raquOf the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 % was wind, 16 % was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 % was hydro and biomass.&raquof capacity that came online in February, 81 % was wind, 16 % was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 % was hydro and biomass.»

Out of the total installed generation capacity of renewable power as on 31-03-2011, wind power accounted for about 71 %, followed by small hydro power (15.2 %) and Biomass power (13.3 %).

I have no idea what the % of world pumped hydro energy storage capacity (in GWh) would be but I guess it would be best measured in ppm.

I said 99 % of global electricity storage capacity is pumped hydro, not 99 % of global renewable power.

250 MW is 0.2 % of world pumped hydro installed generating capacity (Figure 1).

According to EPRI, 99 % of «world installed storage capacity for electrical energy» (EPRI's figure title) is pumped hydro (127 GW).

Peter Lang: 250 MW is 0.2 % of world pumped hydro installed generating capacity (Figure 1).

Quebec supplies most of its power from hydro sources — with some smaller sources and with wind ramping up to about 10 % of installed capacity.

Of the 24.5 GW of new capacity built across the EU in 2016, 21.1 GW — or 86 % — was from wind, solar, biomass and hydro — eclipsing the previous high - water mark of 79 % in 201Of the 24.5 GW of new capacity built across the EU in 2016, 21.1 GW — or 86 % — was from wind, solar, biomass and hydro — eclipsing the previous high - water mark of 79 % in 201of new capacity built across the EU in 2016, 21.1 GW — or 86 % — was from wind, solar, biomass and hydro — eclipsing the previous high - water mark of 79 % in 201of 79 % in 2014.

By the first half of 2017, Scotland had 9,309 MW installed capacity of renewable electricity - mainly comprised of 6,767 MW onshore wind, 187MW offshore wind, 1,632 MW hydro, 328MW solar and 196MW plant biomass.

Although recent statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration say wind exceeded hydro in total generating capacity at the end of 2016, their capacity...

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

Taken together, including pumped storage, southern China and the Mekong States have nearly 70,000 MW of rapid - response hydro capacity at their disposal.

By year end, about 37 % of KIUC's capacity will come from renewable resources, broken down as 15 % solar, 12 % biomass and 9 % hydro, with the rest fired by oil.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

California's RPS increases electricity costs in part by requiring the purchase of renewables even when they can not be relied on to power the grid, requiring undiminished capacity from the combination of natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power.

Approximately 84 % of this capacity was thermal (mostly coal) and 14 % of it was from renewables (mostly hydro).

They will also represent 30 % of Vietnams total generating capacity on top of the 50 % of capacity that is now hydro.

This effectively doubles the cost of supplying electricity since two generating and even transmission fleets must be built and maintained rather than only one — fossil fuel and nuclear generation — except where abundant hydro capacity is available.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

ENERGY OVERVIEW Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and Production) Oil Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and Production) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.07 bkwh

GE's hydro turbines and generators represent more than 25 % of the total installed capacity worldwide.

Farmers who have local renewable generating capacity may not draw from the grid, and of course in areas where the preponderance of demand is nuclear or hydro or a renewable, then the fertilizer needed would not have a large carbon footprint.

But please keep in mind that Seattle is one of the few major U.S. cities with enough hydro capacity for it to matter.