Sentences with phrase «of hydroelectricity»

Indeed, Canada is the United States» largest supplier of energy, exporting more crude and refined oil products to the U.S. than Saudi Arabia does, and shipping large quantities of hydroelectricity south of the border.

Generally, these resources include wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and some types of hydroelectricity, but may include other resources such as landfill gas, municipal solid waste, and tidal energy.

Do you know what the environmental impact of hydroelectricity is?

The generation of hydroelectricity at California dams will drop dramatically from average levels because it varies directly with streamflow.

The increases came despite 2017 having had the highest output of hydroelectricity — the state's cheapest source of electricity — since 2011.

I also wasn't particularly surprised by the correlation between the deployment of hydroelectricity and energy decarbonization, given how much power large dams generate.

The balance of electricity supply is provided by a combination of hydroelectricity (unchanged from today), geothermal (100 GWe), and biofuels.

The advantages of hydroelectricity are elimination of the cost of fuel, longer plant lives, and low labor costs.

A project as ambitious as plugging the Red Sea isn't viewed as an immediate fix, but there is a comparable project underway to dam the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf to exploit the evaporative cycle and influx of seawater to generate vast quantities of hydroelectricity.

Ontario is the latest customer to line up to purchase Newfoundland and Labrador's growing supply of hydroelectricity in a move that could one day lead to a «national grid.»

Not exact matches

Renewable energy sources, including wind, geothermal, solar and hydroelectricity, accounted for one - fifth of total electricity generated in the first quarter of 2017, according to the Energy Information Administration — and it's expected to continue growing.

Our petro - industrial civilization produces and consumes a seemingly diverse suite of energies: oil, coal, ethanol, hydroelectricity, gasoline, geothermal heat, hydrogen, solar power, propane, uranium, wind, wood, dung.

Why not include hydroelectricity, which is the largest source of clean electricity globally?

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

In Anchorage, Alaska, the talk is of a project to bring hydroelectricity from Siberia to North America through a submarine power line.

Hydroelectricity may not be such an environmentally friendly source of power after all.

Other targets announced by Rousseff include 12 million hectares of reforestation, 5 million hectares of crops - livestock - forestry integration, the end of illegal deforestation, and meeting 45 % of the country's energy needs with renewables — up from a 40 % share today — largely thanks to hydroelectricity and sugarcane ethanol.

Brock's Monument penetrating the sky across the river in Canada (commemorating a British - American battle during the War of 1812) and the arc of the Lewiston - Queenston Bridge — with the Sir Adam Beck Power Plant just beyond — provided dramatic markers of Artpark's place in an area characterized by transnationalism and an anomalous mix of tourism with the plumes of industry powered by hydroelectricity.

Inventions such as steel skyscrapers and the discovery of germ - based medicine will be included alongside guns and hydroelectricity.

Italy is looking at importing power from North African desert, France is considering importanting hydroelectricity from the wetter parts of Africa.

«Climate change will affect our agricultural productivity, our forests, fisheries, the types of pests and diseases we face, the frequency of extreme weather events, and even our capacity to generate hydroelectricity ---- and policymakers must make decisions in the face of all of these.»

Out of its total 35,843 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (3.36 % of the U.S. total), AEP gets 69.0 % from coal, 22.2 % from natural gas, 6.4 % from nuclear, and 2.3 % from hydroelectricity.

Of the 12 transmission corridors for air pollution control, only three are planning to integrate renewables: Two in northern China will transmit a hybrid of wind and coal power, and one in the south will deliver hydroelectricitOf the 12 transmission corridors for air pollution control, only three are planning to integrate renewables: Two in northern China will transmit a hybrid of wind and coal power, and one in the south will deliver hydroelectricitof wind and coal power, and one in the south will deliver hydroelectricity.

But within a couple of years, the rapid construction of non-carbon wind and solar systems made up for San Onofre's lost electricity, and natural gas use — excluding excess natural gas burned to make up for lost hydroelectricity due to the drought — dropped again.

When San Onofre closed its last reactor in 2012, with no formal replacement plan in place, there was a short - term spike in natural gas consumption (worsened by the simultaneous arrival of a multi-year drought, which cut hydroelectricity generation) and an increase in California's greenhouse gas emissions.

Impacts of California's Five - Year (2012 - 2016) Drought on Hydroelectricity Generation — This comprehensive assessment of the costs to California of lost hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electriHydroelectricity Generation — This comprehensive assessment of the costs to California of lost hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electrihydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generation.

The Pacific Institute has just completed and released a report that evaluates how diminished river flows have resulted in less hydroelectricity, more expensive electricity from the combustion of natural gas, and increased

The City of Eugene has developed and is implementing strategies include increasing water conservation; increasing investment in the urban forest; removing essential services from the 100 - year flood zone; and increasing energy efficiency to reduce demand for hydroelectricity, a resource that is expected to decline with climate change; conducting a food security assessment

Around the world, climate change is melting glaciers that feed major rivers, contributing to drought - induced hydroelectricity blackouts, and threatening the water supply and river resources of billions of people.

But the government does have plans to make use of renewable energies — wind and solar power, low - carbon sources such as gas, nuclear energy, and imported hydroelectricity — and wants to create «green jobs» that will take care of people and the environment.

Current renewable generation in China is dominated by hydroelectricity, which is the country's second - largest source of generation after coal.

Peru's overall demand for electricity is projected to increase an average of 4 percent each year between 2002 and 2030.23 Continued glacier retreat could create critical conditions between 2015 and 2025, affecting water supplies needed for 60 percent of the population and for hydroelectricity generation.20, 10,22

Hydroelectricity supplies the vast majority of renewable electricity - 73.2 % in total — which represents 16.4 % of world electricity generation.

New England can support renewables development and make renewable generation, including hydroelectricity, 57 % of its energy mix by 2030.

Including hydroelectricity, 57 % of the Northeast's energy must be renewable by 2030.

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.

This renewable capacity represents about 65 percent of the renewable energy generated annually in Germany — the rest comes from hydroelectricity, biomass and geothermal.

Coal and gas - fired thermal power stations and hydroelectricity are the second and third largest kinds of power generation in the country.

Although hydroelectric dams are estimated to constitute 30 % — 62 % of global impoundments (Lehner et al. 2011, Varis et al. 2012), 82 % of reservoirs with known uses in our GHG database had the capacity to generate hydroelectricity (supplemental figure S7).

If they'd done their job we'd not have hundreds of thousands of bird - killing wind turbines, we'd have nuclear power and hydroelectricity projects instead.

Without all that additional hydroelectricity, Jacobson's entire house of cards falls apart.

By contrast, a transition from fossil fuels to solar or wind power, biomass, or hydroelectricity would require rematerialization — the use of more natural resources — since sunlight, wind, organic matter, and water are all far less energy dense than oil and gas.

Why not include hydroelectricity, which is the largest source of clean electricity globally?

In the same 2014 Ipsos survey, 66 percent agreed that «renewable sources of energy such as hydroelectricity, solar and wind can not on [their] own meet the rising global demand for energy.»

ENERGY OVERVIEW Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 2.9 billion barrels Oil Production (2002E): 818,000 barrels per day (bbl / d), of which about 763,000 bbl / d was crude oil Oil Consumption (2002E): 483,000 bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2001E): 335,000 bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 27.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.32 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.17 Tcf Net Natural Gas Exports (2000E): 0.15 Tcf Coal Reserves (2000E): 474 million short tons (Mmst) Coal Production (2000E): 0.33 Mmst Coal Consumption (2000E): 1.47 Mmst Electric Generation Capacity (1 / 1 / 00E): 24 gigawatts (GW) Electricity Generation (2000E): 82.8 billion kilowattthours (bkwh); conventional thermal 52 %, hydroelectricity 41 %, nuclear 7 %

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Slide 6 of 9 7Ic Hydroelectricity What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using hydroelectric power?

Overall, Canada is a net exporter of electricity to the United States, and most of its power needs are met by hydroelectricity.

Facts Hydroelectricity supplies 19 per cent of the world's current electricity needs and over 63 per cent of renewable energy (Figures in 2005) The first hydroelectric power station in history started producing electricity in 1882.

Out of its total 11,159 megawatts (MW) of U.S. electric generating capacity in 2005 (1.05 % of the U.S. total), E.ON produces 74.8 % from coal, 22.8 % from natural gas, 1.4 % from oil, and 1.0 % from hydroelectricity.