Sentences with phrase «on hydropower»

In areas dependent on hydropower, mitigation options that reduce industrial electricity demand will help in adapting to climate variability or change that affects water supply (Subak et al., 2000).

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The expansion of agriculture and Brazil's heavy reliance on hydropower also complicate water relations between cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

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If the authors are counting on hydropower for backup, they should recognize that there are very few, if any, areas in the U.S. where enough hydropower is available to provide back up for the authorsí proposed massive shift toward wind energy.

Cherry J. E., C. Knapp, S. Trainor, A. J. Ray, M. Tedesche and S. Walker (January 2017): Planning for climate change impacts on hydropower in the Far North.

The focus on hydropower in the coming years must not be on building new dams, but instead on maximizing efficiency, responsible operation, and environmental performance.

The magnitude and timing of effects on hydropower production depend on changes in glacial mass, as described above.

What's more, large parts of California's water sector are reliant on hydropower.

High confidence that due to glacier mass loss there will be related impacts on hydropower production, ocean circulation, fisheries, and global sea level rise.

Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Hydropower in Southeast Alaska: Planning for a Robust Energy Future

Cherry, J. E., S. Walker, N. Fresco, S. Trainor, and A. Tidwell, 2010: Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Hydropower in Southeast Alaska: Planning for a Robust Energy Future.

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[IEA Hydropower] International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on Hydropower

Also, this internship grabbed my attention because American Rivers has a wide range of goals that they work to accomplish, from physically cleaning rivers to lobbying for regulations on hydropower plants.

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.

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.

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That paper claimed Jacobson's study had a large modeling error on hydropower output.

Nevertheless, «China will try to rely on hydropower,» Lai says.

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.

MOSCOW, April 27 - Russian sanctions - hit businessman Oleg Deripaska has agreed in principle to reduce his stake in Russia's En + Group, which manages his aluminium and hydropower assets, to less than 50 percent, the company said in a statement on Friday.

This massive undertaking will help scientists better understand how much liquid water is contained within snow and how viable snow is as a resource of liquid water on our planet for drinking, agriculture, and hydropower.

She was first elected to the House in 2004, and has since focused on issues of hydropower.

Nikola plans to process its own hydrogen fuel at each station with on - site solar power, wind power or by buying electricity created through renewable sources such as hydropower.

Today, a broadening recovery nudges management to rely less on financial engineering and to begin the riskier, tougher task of finding growth, investing in research and development, or inventing the next big thing — whether it's ocean - driven hydropower or a cure for male - pattern baldness.

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-...]

The New York Power Authority was created in 1931 to create cheap hydropower out of the rocky rapids on the St. Lawrence River.

Since the governor also is seeking to shut down any nuclear plant not located on Lake Ontario, the state's energy future depends on a combination of hydropower, windmills and solar panels.

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

«This project draws on two of our greatest competitive advantages — clean, self - generated hydropower and leading - edge AP smelting technology.

Greenport Electric isn't listed but its rates, which like Rockville Centre's and Freeport's are subsidized by cheap hydropower from New York Power Authority, are on par with those two Long Island municipal utilities.

NHA Members can stay up - to - date on the latest state - level hydropower regulations.

Chaired by northern New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of the 21st district, the panel held a hearing Monday on the challenges and opportunities for millennials in the hydropower industry.

«It would be a missed opportunity if we ended up importing hydropower from another country rather than investing in renewable energy in New York,» she said during an interview on «The Capitol Pressroom.»

The Oswego Common Council is expected to vote tonight on a resolution taking away Brookfield Renewable Power's right to regulate an area of the Oswego River near a hydropower dam it operates.

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.

Before, we did work with muscle power, animal power (horses, mules, donkeys, oxen, camels), wind power on the oceans and in gristmills, a little hydropower, and open fire.

Western New York's major energy - intensive industries are dependent on our low - cost hydropower to remain competitive in today's global market.

We are pleased that Governor Paterson recognizes the importance of these jobs to our community and we look forward to continuing to work with NYPA President and CEO Richie Kessel on other hydropower issues that impact Niagara County.»

Electricity costs are frustratingly high in New York State, so it is important that our valuable hydropower resource be used here to aid these businesses and the workers, families and communities that depend on them.»

Released on 16 June in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol provides a method for assessing dams in all phases, from development to operation.

These threats include a proposed hydropower plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, just over the border into Kenya, and a factory to process the soda ash from the lake itself.

«Longer droughts will have many additional social and economic consequences, for example on food supply, health and hydropower,» climatologist Jonathan Overpeck writes in a commentary on the research published in Nature January 18.

«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.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

But the dorado, which can grow to more than 2 meters in length, is disappearing from those waters, and scientists blame two hydropower dams that Brazil erected a decade ago on the Madeira River.

Her team documented 142 hydropower dams that are operating or under construction on headwaters in the western Amazon Basin, and another 160 that are under consideration.