Sentences with phrase «reduce hydro power»

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«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

According to the Power Ministry, the expected load shedding may result from their decision to rest some hydro plants, which will reduce the power generation capaPower Ministry, the expected load shedding may result from their decision to rest some hydro plants, which will reduce the power generation capapower generation capacity.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

To reduce energy consumption, it was built with light weight carbon fiber and aluminum... The carbon fiber was produced in Washington with Bonneville hydro power.

Even costly negotiated buy - outs will reduce hydro costs significantly, due to the high cost of disposing of surplus power.

An excellent study by Joe Wheatley of the relatively isolated all Ireland grid, EifrGrid, which has negligible hydro, negligible interconnectors to UK, no nuclear and a mix of modern CCGT, coal, peat and CHP plants, and 17 % of electricity generated by wind power in 2011, found that wind was just 53 % effective at reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.

Yes, coal as coke is still used to reduce iron ore, but that coal and iron ore produce a permanent capital asset in the steel that will be reused by electric furnace for centuries, and wind and hydro can produce the electric power to recycle the scrap steel.

According to the Climate Policy Team of the World Bank Group in its report detailing Mongolia's INDC, Mongolia is going to reduce its emissions in part by generating 20 % of its power needs from renewables such as hydro, wind, and 145 MW of solar PV, at a cost in 2015 of $ 573 billion, although this price has undoubtedly fallen since then.

Although Brazil is an oil power, it's abundant hydro resources greatly reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.

Reduced run - off into hydro - power catchments in recent years is a major problem for the operators of hydro - power stations, but it could to some extent be overcome by developing pumped recycling of the limited water in the system.

Existing hydro power could be reserved as far as possible for generating in peak consumption periods, reducing the need for gas peaking power plants;