Sentences with phrase «of hydroelectric plants»

And into the generator gallery of a hydroelectric plant: «The noises are all low notes — hums, buzzes, groanings, rhythmic vibrations that you feel rather than hear.»

Not exact matches

For example, during the last major geomagnetic storm experienced by Earth in 1989, the entire Canadian province of Quebec went dark when a critical Canadian hydroelectric plant went down.

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.

As a result, some of the Yasuní money was designated for construction of the Huapamala Hydroelectric Project, a small power plant in the southern Andes.

The country has a large number of geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, which provide a massive electricity surplus to the island nation.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

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.

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

The project which is estimated to cost $ 100 billion, and if completed would be the world's largest hydroelectric plant is more than twice the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China.

To enhance development of a competitive power market, Government approved the restructuring of Volta River Authority (VRA) to include an entity to manage the hydroelectric facilities separately and the sale to the private sector of the state - funded thermal power plants which government assigned to VRA to manage and operate.

But, because Niagara County is home to the fourth largest hydroelectric power plant in the in the US, Ceretto has collected thousands of signatures on a petition seeking direct representation.

-- A company that owns 71 hydroelectric plants acquired from Upstate utility company Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. estimated a combined Empire Zone take of roughly $ 142 million.

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

The Varick Street hydroelectric plant in Oswego is one of the Upstate hydro facilities for which Brookfield Asset Management, of Canada, got tax breaks through the Empire Zones program.

«These plants represent some of the best and most important hydroelectric plants in the country.

«The planned upgrades of our Niagara Power Vista and two other upstate visitors centers are the latest examples of the importance that the Power Authority places on being an integral member of the communities where our hydroelectric plants are located,» said John R. Koelmel, NYPA chairman.

«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.

The union says the Power Authority has exploited its quasi-government status to avoid reaching a contract with about 50 unionized workers who operate some of the massive hydroelectric plants in western and northern New York.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

This bronze Tesla — a statue on the Canadian side — stands atop an induction motor, the type of engine that drove the first hydroelectric power plant.

At one time or another the ash clouds closed 11 airports, and ash that washed into the water intake of one major hydroelectric plant caused $ 6.5 million in damage.

Proposals have been put forward to set up the pipeline so that the downward flow of the water goes through a hydroelectric plant that would in turn power a desalination plant, providing up to 850 million m3 of fresh water per year to the parched region.

The cut in the royal fuel bill will come thanks to a hydroelectric plant on the river Thames, which will start supplying power to Windsor Castle, one of her numerous homes.

Hydroelectric plants, for instance, often draw on reservoirs to generate additional electricity at peak times, and then pump some of the water back uphill in off - peak periods.

In a sense, the road passing underneath the wheels plays the role of a river for a hydroelectric plant.

Questioned about the environmental impacts of building large hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon, she said Brazil can not relinquish hydropower yet — «It would be like giving up fracking in the U.S.» — but she hopes solar and wind power generation will take its place overtime.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

«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!»

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

Valeska Grisebach's Western is a more stately, sombre, slow - moving affair, which upends the tropes of the western genre by removing them to a novel setting - southern Bulgaria, to be precise, where a group of migrant German workers are constructing a hydroelectric plant.

The company gets 73 % of its power from hydroelectric plants.

• You can also drive (most of the way) to Machu Picchu from Cusco to the town of Hydroelectrico (there's a hydroelectric plant there).

In 1901 - 1905 a narrow pathway was hammered into the right - hand side of the gorge to provide access to a hydroelectric plant.

As one of fundamental requirements, those seeking to purchase tickets for the Local Train must exhibit their National Identity Card (DNI) to prove that they reside in one of the communities located between Cusco and the town of Machu Picchu or the hydroelectric plant.

Day Three — Optional Zip Lining over a canyon outside of Santa Teresa, or alternatively a three hour hike to the Hydroelectric plant (usually sunny and dry), followed by an easy three hour hike from the Hydroelectric plant to Aguas Calientes (usually sunny, but can be rainy depending on the time of year).

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 last day, Day 8, we will relax, maybe go to the famous Colo de Mono canopy zipline or the hot springs of St. Theresa, before making the easy three hour walk from the HydroElectric plant to Aguas Calientes — the town below Machu Picchu.

Beyond Architecture, with images selected from the entire Stoller archive of more than 50,000 images, includes views of Post-War American factories, construction sites, hydroelectric dams and printing plants.

The pavilion included a display from the New York State Power Authority with a 26 - foot scale replica of the St. Lawrence hydroelectric plant.

Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.

The vulnerability was hinted at during last year's monsoon as a devastating landslide on Aug. 2 put five hydroelectric power plants out of commission, taking 66.5 megawatts of generation out of our national grid.

Also, if the big solar power plants out west and some of the geothermal, hydroelectric, biofuel, and wind plants all connect to the same HVDC lines, the ratio of average to peak power transmission can be reduced along those lines by having geothermal, biofuel, and hydroelectric plants respond to variations in wind and solar.

«Ultimately the things that will generate electricity in the developing world and here will be the same,» Rucker said, highlighting the next generation of nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams as particularly applicable in parts of Africa.

In the fall of 1962 Consolidated Edison proposed to build a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain.

Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.

«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.

But does that industry require large amounts of energy, more than could be derived from say a small hydroelectric plant?

While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.

As we ascended the 1,300 - foot - high windswept knob, I was reminded continually of a remarkable gathering last December of environmentalists, lawyers and scholars who played critical roles in defeating a plan proposed by Consolidated Edison in 1962 to embed a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant in the mountain.