Sentences with phrase «produce hydropower»

When the wind and solar power are in excess in the United States, water would be stored in Canada's reservoirs to produce hydropower during periods of lower wind and solar energy.

Surplus power could be used for charging electric vehicles and for «pumped storage,» where water is pumped uphill into a reservoir to produce hydropower later.

The Group produces hydropower, wind power, solar power and gas - fired power and supplies district heating.

Not exact matches

One business is looking to harness this abundance of Swiss hydropower to produce hydrogen.

Is» haq Mohammed Lapai, as well as representatives of the NERC, the TCN as well as the Hydropower Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC).

For one, Burlington, Vt. — a city of 42,000 residents and the largest town in the state — produces more power than it uses from biomass, wind, solar and 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.

Natural gas, on the other hand, produces 600 tons, and hydropower and nuclear energy produce nearly zero.

[1] EO 13693 defines «clean energy» as heat and electricity produced from the following sources: 1) Renewable electric (e.g., electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, incremental hydropower);

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

In 1961 the hydropower facility began producing clean, low - cost and carbon - free power.

Even though we have great potential for hydropower development, we have not been able to produce the required amount.

Currently producing the second most biofuel globally, Brazil also has an established hydropower sector.

In 2012 California's hydropower facilities produced 26.8 million megawatt - hours (MWh), while grid - connected solar generated just 1.4 million MWh.

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

Electricity produced from coal power, for example, has more greenhouse gas emissions compared with nuclear, hydropower, nuclear energy, solar power and wind energy.

The country already produces nearly 80 % of its power from clean sources, including hydropower, geothermal, and wind farms.

As indicated earlier, the fully allocated cost of electricity produced from non-hydro «renewable» sources such as wind and solar energy is almost always higher than the cost of electricity produced from «conventional» sources (coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower).

Producing electricity from wind - driven turbines (windmills) is widely recognized as more costly than producing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hyProducing electricity from wind - driven turbines (windmills) is widely recognized as more costly than producing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hyproducing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hydropower.

Hydropower has some well - known environmental impacts, especially on rivers and aquatic ecosystems, but it produces few or no air contaminants, whereas burning natural gas emits many pollutants, including climate - changing greenhouse gases.

People die producing electricity all the time — e.g. from transformer explosions inside hydropower plants.

In calculating electricity usage the paper used figures for all of Scandinavia and not just Sweden: Hydropower producing 61 % of the electricity, nuclear 20 %, coal & peat 8 %, natural gas 5 %, wood 4 %, oil 2 %, and wind 1 %.

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.

Hydropower produced between 6 - 9 % of total U.S. electric generation between 1998 and 2009, depending on water availability.

As it stands, 71 % of all renewable energy produced comes from hydropower alongside 68 % of all GoO cancellations in 2017.

Decreases by 20 - 50 % or more are computed for Portugal, Spain, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Turkey, where between 10 % (Ukraine, Bulgaria) and 39 % of the electricity is produced by hydropower (Lehner et al., 2005a).