Sentences with phrase «of small hydropower»

In Brazil, for example, there are cases of small hydropower dams producing the same amount of power, but varying greatly in the sizes of reservoirs behind them.

Current policies in China and many other nations encourage the growth of the small hydropower sector.

«It was surprisingly difficult to find scientific articles that have rigorously quantified the individual and cumulative impacts of small hydropower.

«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»

Their paper, the first to provide a global synthesis of the science and policy of small hydropower, appears this month in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

«The lack of comprehensive analysis regarding cumulative impact of small hydropower,» Kibler said, «is a significant research gap with important policy implications.»

Not exact matches

While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

Home to 12 of the largest miners in the country, the conveniently located small city of Wenatchee, located in Port of Douglas county, offers impossibly inexpensive energy interjection to the hydropower capacity.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

Much like the City of Plattsburgh, whose Common Council last month imposed a moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mining operations due to concerns over energy consumption and fire suppression, the Village of Rouses Point is allocated a comparatively small amount of cheap hydropower each month, around 13,844 kilowatts.

One of the challenges the researchers faced in compiling these numbers is that countries define «small» hydropower plants differently.

As a result, many private landowners and corporations can leverage easier environmental permitting to build small hydropower dams for a fraction of the time and cost of large dams.

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.

As a long - time green campaigner, Tony Juniper was the obvious man to write it — and he has the wisdom to leave us with hope, as we contemplate the rise of small - scale hydropower and onshore wind energy, as well as sustainable, circular economies.

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.

Our project experience encompasses a wide range of technologies, including mid-sized wind, solar, small hydropower, biomass fuel substitution, biogas production, methane destruction at dairy farms and landfills, transportation efficiency and residential water filtration in developing countries.

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.

(Nukes are CO2 - free, hydropower is CO2 - free, but solar and wind, etc. are small contributors to electricity alone, not to mention their percentage of the total energy budget.

U.S. dominated the North America small hydropower market size, with installed capacity of 6.98 GW in 2015.

A number of African and small Asian countries also generate virtually all of their electricity with hydropower, including Bhutan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nepal, and Zambia.

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.

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.

EREC is the umbrella organisation of the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations active in the sectors of photovoltaics, small hydropower, solar thermal, bioenergy, geothermal, ocean, concentrated solar power and wind energy, The European renewable energy sector has an annual turnover of EUR 70 billion and employs 550.000 people.

Hydropower projects encompass dam projects with reservoirs, run - of - river and in - stream projects and range from small to large scale.

Geothermal and Wind Energy Projects 9 St. Lucia Energy Week n December 6th to 10 th, 2004 — Theme: A Vision for St. Lucias Energy Future u Minister of Energy's address on Television and Radio u Energy Supplement Placed In the Local Newspapers u Energy Exhibition and School Project Competition — 50 participants, 10 projects u Seminar On National And Regional Energy Initiatives n Energy / n Renewables supply 25 % of all energy needs and cost less than diesel u Geothermal — from the volcano u Small hydropower /

Storing more water in reservoirs and refilling them earlier can help salmon at the expense of a small decline in hydropower capacity.11

While small in relation to the hydropower potential of southern China, northern China does have some hydro power assets it can exploit, both domestically and in neighboring North Korea and Russia.

Although still small in relation to hydropower, cancellations of GoOs from wind power have more than doubled compared to the previous year and cancellations from solar power have even increased to 4.5 times the number of the year before, after tripling between 2015 and 2016.

Hydropower production will grow but its share will remain stable, while the shares of other renewables (including geothermal, solar and wind) will increase most rapidly, but from such a low base that they will remain the smallest component of renewable energy in 2030.

Implementation of favorable government regulations such as the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs in the U.S. and growing number of funding programs pertaining to the renewable energy sector in developed countries such as Italy and Canada are some of the factors which are expected to present future growth opportunities.

Nevertheless, there was time for SHAPES: small hydro action for the promotion of efficient solutions — «facilitating and strengthening the co-operation between EU Small Hydropower (SHP) Research and Market actors&rasmall hydro action for the promotion of efficient solutions — «facilitating and strengthening the co-operation between EU Small Hydropower (SHP) Research and Market actors&raSmall Hydropower (SHP) Research and Market actors».

Some community members would like a larger measure of modernity, beyond what they get from a small, recently installed hydropower system and a few small solar panels.

In Papua, the location and relatively low population density of villages without access makes them prime candidates for mini - and off - grid technologies, powered mostly by renewables - based generation (predominantly solar and small - scale hydropower).

This is realized by a small hydropower plant of 21 MW installed capacity, located in the city of Costa Rica in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

It also discusses options for the development of bioenergy, small hydropower, solar and wind energy projects.

But while employment rose in solar PV and wind, they were offset by losses in the solar thermal and small hydropower sectors, leading to an overall job decline of 2 % in the country.

The «technology to eliminate fossil fuel combustion» includes solar and wind energy, geothermal energy, a variety of hydropower energy sources, combustion of biomass to generate electricity (an entirely different matter than liquid biofuels for transport) and more — ALL of which is already at hand, and already being deployed at both large and small scales all over the world.

NOTE: There are a number of other, smaller nations which get all or nearly all of their electricity from hydropower — Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nepal, others — but considering that none of these actually produce much electricity to start with I took them out the running.

Officially known as the «Law on Special Measures Concerning Procurement of Renewable Energy Sourced Electricity by Electric Utilities,» Japan's feed - in tariff (FiT) includes solar PV, wind, small and medium - scale hydropower, geothermal, and biomass.