Sentences with phrase «of hydropower generation»

The report also notes that China was not able to maintain high levels of hydropower generation due to lower rainfall levels.

High levels of hydropower generation in the Pacific Northwest led the electric system operator, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), to curtail wind generation during some recent periods of low electricity demand.

Notably, above - average rain and snowfall this winter in California has supported high levels of hydropower generation that may also be contributing to recent pricing patterns.

Not exact matches

H2 Energy, together with IBAarau, has been working on the installation of a hydrogen generation plant at a hydropower facility in Aarau, in the country's north.

On September 11, 2012, the Brazilian government announced that it would end the practice of automatically extending 20 - year, hydropower generation and transmission concessions expiring between 2015 and 2017 and would renew those concessions earlier than -LSB-...]

Hydropower a decade ago was the leading source of power, contributing more than half of the country's electricity generation capacity — which perhaps explains why the cost of buying power is now high following the reversal in the country's power generation capacity.

«Hydropower is an essential source of electricity in California providing, on average, 15 percent of our annual generation,» California Energy Commission Chairman Robert Weisenmiller said in a news release on the study.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

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.

TVA is also one of the nation's largest producers of hydropower, which like nuclear generation emits no greenhouse gases but has other environmental downsides.

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.

Electricity generation from hydropower, historically the largest source of renewable electricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitation patterns.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

This, in turn, could impact the availability of water and thus prove detrimental to agriculture and hydropower generation in the region.

Started in 1982 - 83, the multipurpose project was planned for irrigation, hydropower generation and water supply2harnessing the water resources of river Subarnarekha for irrigation, flood control and municipal and industrial use (Government of Bihar, 1988).

What about hydropower, which is billed as a sustainable form of electricity generation because it produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels?

(1) increased demand for heating fuels and electricity due to cooler winter and warmer summer conditions in 2007 than in 2006; (2) increased consumption of fossil fuels to generate electricity; and (3) a significant decrease (14.2 percent) in hydropower generation used to meet this demand.

Ric Merritt @ 116, yes I meant electricity generation, and we do have plenty of hydropower.

In California, natural gas - fired capacity is often used to help offset lower levels of generation from hydropower facilities.

Since 1995, the Rosebud Sioux and other COUP tribes have committed to the utility - scale development of tribal wind resources on their reservations (estimated in the hundreds of gigawatts of potential), and the integration of large - scale distributed tribal wind generation with diminishing reliance on hydropower from federal transmission grids.

Despite this, hydropower will remain the largest source of renewable electricity generation in 2022 under the IEA's forecast, followed by wind, solar PV and bioenergy.

During the first half of 2014, however, hydropower accounted for only 10 % of California's total generation.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

Wind becomes the single largest source of renewable generation by 2040, supplanting hydropower as the largest renewable generation source.

For example, unlimited amounts of new and existing zero - emission non-hydropower renewable generation are included in the generation base used to calculate compliance, which makes the non-hydropower renewable generation more valuable for compliance than existing hydropower and new and existing nuclear generation that do not receive similar treatment.

The change in streamflow of the region's mighty rivers, which could get more dramatic with climate change, can pose big problems for hydropower generation, electricity pricing and fisheries.

Northwest: Relying on hydropower to provide 60 percent of its electricity generation means the Northwest is particularly susceptible to shifting rain, snowpack and runoff patterns.

The bulk of LADWP's 4,000 MW to 6,000 MW load is met by out - of - basin nuclear, coal and hydropower generation delivered through four transmission lines.

On subseasonal timescales, probabilistic predictions of wind, solar and hydropower generation can help stabilize energy costs and supply by improving scheduling and trading, maintenance scheduling, reducing curtailments and imbalance penalties, improving decisions about reserve energy sources, maximizing grid integration, and planning capacity commitments.

The generation share of hydropower was 7 % in 2017 and is forecast to fall slightly below that level both 2018 and 2019.

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.

Until offshore wind and other solutions scale up significantly, though, Massachusetts faces a choice between natural gas for the bulk of its generation and wind and hydropower imported from out - of - state.

Several generation resources are also fully permitted and readily available to come online by 2021, after the plant's closure, including clean, renewable hydropower able to replace up to 1,000 megawatts of power.

In other AEO cases that assume the continuation of tax credits or other policies that support nonhydro renewables, their overall generation and generation share relative to hydropower is much higher.

Hydropower does exceed nonhydro renewable generation in several states, particularly in the Northwest, where in 2013 conventional hydropower accounted for 69 % and 56 % of total electricity generation in Washington and Oregon, resHydropower does exceed nonhydro renewable generation in several states, particularly in the Northwest, where in 2013 conventional hydropower accounted for 69 % and 56 % of total electricity generation in Washington and Oregon, reshydropower accounted for 69 % and 56 % of total electricity generation in Washington and Oregon, respectively.

Between 2003 and 2013, the number of states for which nonhydro renewable generation exceeded hydropower generation, shaded green on the maps, nearly doubled — increasing from 17 to 33 over this period.

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.

In 2011, hydropower supplied 9.5 percent of E.U. electricity generation.

Much of the world's recent growth came from China, where hydropower generation more than tripled from 220 billion kilowatt - hours in 2000 to 720 billion in 2010.

The use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar has also grown rapidly in recent years so that generation from these types of renewables is now surpassing generation from hydropower.

Reduced nuclear generation due to outages and reduced hydropower generation both served to moderate declining electricity prices in much of the country.

Cost advantages of hydropower based electricity generation and the substitution of fossil fuel based power production in an attempt to reduce carbon emission is expected to drive global hydropower market demand.

The report includes all biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million liters or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small - scale projects, or small distributed capacity.

In the U.S., large - scale renewable projects plus conventional hydropower are expected to account for 14 percent of total electricity generation in 2016, a 9 percent rise from 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, for 2013, the main sources of U.S. generation were: coal, 39 %; natural gas, 27 %; nuclear, 19 %; hydropower, 7 %; and other renewables (biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind), 6 %.

My gut reaction was to be skeptical: Solar has been growing rapidly, especially in California, but even with nearly 3,000 MW of photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal generation in place, it's still well short of the scale of California's 10,000 MW of hydropower dams, especially when you consider that the latter aren't constrained to operate only in daylight hours.

Wind and solar (combined) accounted for about 20 % of non ‐ fossil electricity generation in 2016 and slightly exceeded hydropower after rising from less than 1 % in 2000 to 2 % in 2006.

Hydropower, which historically has been the largest source of renewable electricity generation, has also lost share, falling from 34 % of non ‐ fossil electricity generation in 1997 to 19 % in 2016.

Over 79 % of generation is non-emitting: hydropower (63 %), nuclear -LSB-...]