Sentences with phrase «of hydroelectric energy»

There are a number of reasons why this is important, most notably because while Bhutan is a net exporter of hydroelectric energy, it also imports all of the gasoline and diesel used for transportation.

First of all, salt — and when I talk about salt, you can kind of interchange it with sodium — salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in the cells in our body.

Not exact matches

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

The data give a range of deaths for each type of power, but the ranking consistently places hydroelectric power as more deadly than nuclear energy and natural gas:

The company also thinks renewable sources will increase from around 2 percent today to 7 percent by 2035, while the prevalence of hydroelectric power and nuclear energy will remain mostly unchanged.

It is the largest municipally - owned producer of green power in the province, with hydroelectric and landfill gas - to - energy generating facilities.

Traders searching for cheap, renewable energy have been flooding into the island in recent months to take advantage of its geothermal and hydroelectric power plants.

Renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric power comprised 53.6 % of all GW capacity of technologies that were installed during 2015.

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Most (88 %) of this energy production is hydroelectric in nature.

ICLN holds a portfolio of «clean energy» companies, which it defines as those involved in the biofuels, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind industries.

«Assuring a domestic source of clean, reliable hydroelectric power helps secure our energy system for the growth of businesses and sectors of the Lower Mainland and provincial economy for decades into the future.»

VICTORIA — Energy Minister Bill Bennett called his own B.C. Liberals cabinet colleagues «a bunch of nervous politicians» who don't even know what the «upper range is yet» on the cost of the proposed Site C hydroelectric project.

Our plan includes an ambitious program of energy retrofits for public and private buildings, upgrades to maximize our existing hydroelectric dams, and an aggressive move toward renewable technologies like wind and solar power.

Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP owns and operates a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities including 193 hydroelectric generating stations 11 wind facilities and two natural gas - fired plants in USA Canada and Brazil.

Interviewed by Pam Frampton of The Telegram regarding the governance of the hydroelectric development underway at Muskrat Falls, Labrador, as overseen by the Crown corporation, Nalcor Energy.

Hydroelectric power makes up about 46 percent of the Buffalo plant's total energy intake, Planter says.

Lactalis» Buffalo and Nampa facilities both utilize hydroelectric power generation as part of the company's effort to pursue non-fossil fuel - based energy sources and prevent carbon dioxide emissions.

Kristina Johnson, an engineer who developed technology critical to 3 - D movies and served as under secretary in the U.S. Energy Department before founding a hydroelectric company, will be appointed chancellor of the SUNY, replacing outgoing Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the first woman to hold the post.

«The state has been quite aggressive with other renewables, we have quite a lot of energy coming from hydroelectric plants, and there has been a lot of work to boost other green energy, including wind and solar,» he said.

Skidmore has entered a 20 - year operating agreement with company Gravity Renewables and National Grid to meet 18 percent of its energy needs with power generated at the historic Chittenden Falls Hydroelectric Facility in Columbia County, 60 miles away.

We must focus on bringing together wind, solar, natural gas, biofuels, hydroelectric, geothermal and advanced clean coal as part of a diversified energy portfolio since there is no single solution.

When analyzing water, for instance, according to Conservation International, researchers studied the value of the crops dependent on water for irrigation, as well as the value of the energy water generates through hydroelectric dams, among other factors.

Conversely, Montreal was ruled out because it already receives 99.7 percent of its energy needs from hydroelectric and wind energy, meaning that the investment in geothermal heat pumps would bring little return on investment in both cost and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Methane emissions from big hydroelectric dams in the tropics outweigh the benefits that this form of renewable energy provides, according to new scientific data

Vancouver also leads the world in the use of hydroelectric power, which makes up 90 percent of its energy supply, and regularly uses renewables like wind and solar.

Renewable or noncarbon forms of energy generation — solar power, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear — have to play a role.

The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

It will take a toll on China's hydroelectric output, and also push up the cost of using it,» explained Lin, who directs the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.

Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.

The Armenian energy ministry said last week that Yerevan has only two hours of electricity per day from a hydroelectric station.

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy — at a big cost

The plan calls for virtually no new hydroelectric dams, but does account for energy gains from improving the efficiency of existing dams.

The researchers focused on meeting each state's new power demands using only the renewable energies — wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and tiny amounts of tidal and wave — available to each state.

His students subsequently published papers on reducing the variability of wind energy by interconnecting wind farms; on integrating solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power into the grid; and on wave power.

«Each one of these loops carries as much energy as a large hydroelectric plant, such as the Hoover dam, generates in about a million years!»

In one decade (2001 — 2011) Germany increased the non-hydroelectric renewable energy portion of its electricity from 4 % to 19 %, with fossil fuels decreasing from 63 % to 61 % (hydroelectric decreased from 4 % to 3 % and nuclear power decreased from 29 % to 18 %)[231].

«Night Moves,» described as a «noir - thriller,» follows three radical environmentalists plotting the explosion of a hydroelectric dam — the symbol of the energy - sucking, resource - devouring industrial culture they despise.

BRP focuses on hydroelectric power but also has experience with wind, solar, and biomass energy generation, and this diversity makes it one of the best dividend stocks for 2018.

Loans in 2017 included a couple of hydroelectric renewable energy projects.

Located at the confluence of two of the preserve's rivers, the hydroelectric plant is in a perfect position to harness the energy of the rushing waters.

The Costa Rican Electrical Institute (ICE) was building the hydroelectric dam to create the Arenal reservoir — now one of the country's most important sources of electric energy.

It's the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam - the very source and symbol of the energy - sucking, resource - devouring industrial culture they despise.

Through drawing, the class considers hydroelectric power and the gravitational potential of energy as a way to examine state changes in matter and liquid.

Last year, the city of Juneau, AK reduced energy consumption by more than 30 % when they were cut off from cheap hydroelectric power by avalanches.

However, the true range of debate is really «coal versus natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, improvements in energy efficiency and conservation.»

In addition, many of these developments require infrastructure changes such as transmission lines and energy storage faclilities (mainly pumped hydroelectric storage) to become practical in the long term.

And if we intend to maintain our standard of living, if we want to remain competitive in the world economy, if we expect to continue protecting our national security, we're going to have to find new, renewable and sustainable clean sources of energy — solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric.

«The Nicaraguan government is trying to change the matrix of its energy supply, and to do so we need to preserve and conserve our nature reserves and forests so we can have the water we need to run what will be Central America's largest hydroelectric plant, Tumarin,» says Col Juan Ramon Morales, commander of the Ecological Battalion.

The full potential there is enormous — some 40,000 TW of renewable energy in all, of which we tap only a tiny fraction with our present hydroelectric plants.