Sentences with phrase «river hydroelectric»

The Columbia and Snake Rivers have a large number of run - of - river hydroelectric dams and a smaller number of larger dams with reservoirs designed to control the flow of water on the river.

Run - of - the - river hydroelectric.

The Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex has two major dams — Santo Antonio and Jirau — in Rondonia, within 200 km of Pando, that will cost an estimated ten billion dollars, although the global financial crisis may create problems for this investment.

About Water Power Group Water Power Group (www.waterpowergroup.com) is an Ontario - based private power producer working through joint ventures or cooperatives with local communities and First Nations to develop small, run - of - the river hydroelectric generators.

Description: Northbrook Carolina Hydro is a portfolio of four run - of - the - river hydroelectric assets in North and South Carolina totaling 12.9 megawatts of nameplate capacity.

Prentice cited the federal loan guarantee for Newfoundland's Lower Churchill River hydroelectric project as «a wise instrument of industrial policy,» and called for governments to «expedite the regulatory and environmental approval processes for megaprojects.»

Not exact matches

From 1951 to 1952, China built the giant hydroelectric dam on the Ruhe River with help from the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, its elevated terrain creates fast - running waterways that flow into the Missouri River and its tributaries, providing the resources for Montana to become the seventh - largest producer of hydroelectric power in the country.

And when it comes to energy, Brookfield owns 218 hydroelectric plants on 82 river systems in North and South America.

Russia and the United States do not have significant hashing power yet, but there is evidence their mining activity is growing.The world's first full - service mining solution providerNestled in Wenatchee, Washington, located close to a number of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, the Giga Watt Project is becoming a significant player in North American crypto mining.Giga Watt is fueled by five megawatts of power dedicated to mining resources, with an additional 50 in development.

In 1999, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt pushed the plunger to dynamite the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine — the first operating hydroelectric dam in the nation ever to be intentionally destroyed, in this case to make way for fish.

To enhance development of a competitive power market, Government approved the restructuring of Volta River Authority (VRA) to include an entity to manage the hydroelectric facilities separately and the sale to the private sector of the state - funded thermal power plants which government assigned to VRA to manage and operate.

Some of the hydroelectric stations Reliant owned, like ones on the Oswego River, are almost 100 years old.

However, China's current domestic river development policies — which include major hydroelectric dams and a nationwide, south - to - north water diversion project — indicate this will not be easy.

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

It will boost annual hydroelectric power production by $ 5.3 million, and annual recreational activity along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario by $ 9.1 million.

A trip down the Yangtze River — home of the world's largest hydroelectric dam — offers a glimpse into China's past and future

NOAA Fisheries researchers used the model to look at the impacts of 15 FERC - licensed hydroelectric dams in the Penobscot River watershed.

It was humdrum stuff — until one official mentioned in passing that this tree - lined curve in the river, a popular picnic spot for Hungarians, was to be drowned by a giant hydroelectric dam being planned in secret by a much - feared state agency known simply as the Water Management.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

This is eight times the capacity of the Aswan Dam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in Paraguay.

Haitis need for farmland and timber rapidly deforested the already sparse trees on its side of the island, with disastrous consequences: soil erosion, loss of timber for building and of wood for charcoal fuel, heavier sediment loads in rivers and decreased watershed protection that reduced the potential for hydroelectric power.

One measure, a proposal to tear down four dams along a 140 - mile stretch of Oregon's Snake River, has made farmers and hydroelectric companies livid, especially in a year of local droughts and power shortages.

The cut in the royal fuel bill will come thanks to a hydroelectric plant on the river Thames, which will start supplying power to Windsor Castle, one of her numerous homes.

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, sealed off the river in June, creating a lake that will eventually stretch for 375 miles and generate 85 billion kilowatt hours of pollution - free electricity a year.

A World Bank study indicates that glacial melt it is likely to raise generating costs at hydroelectric dams on rivers fed by melt water.

In a sense, the road passing underneath the wheels plays the role of a river for a hydroelectric plant.

About a decade ago, a surge of water from a hydroelectric dam scoured soil from the banks of the Cetina River.

An amendment proposed in Brazil may soon make it impossible to challenge the construction of hydroelectric dams, like this one on the Madeira River.

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy — at a big cost

Existing smelters rely mainly on hydroelectric power — dams that have flooded river valleys across Iceland.

Some of the biggest hydroelectric dams globally that portray engineering marvel have been created along the major rivers such as the Nile and the Zambezi in Africa.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.

That operation is to blow up a hydroelectric dam, one of several that's been erected on an Oregon river, and the intention is as much symbolic as anything: as Josh says, «People are going to start thinking.

Native American tribes and salmon fishermen sought to win support from Buffett for a proposal to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River.

You can walk to Hidroeléctrica on a remote road through a valley between two high mountain ridges, alongside some impressive hydroelectric developments in the Urubamba River.

Explore the connected trail network to the hydroelectric generating station, the salmon bearing creeks, lush emerald forests, and popular summer fishing spots along the river.

After a good rest, we will go down to the Hydroelectric plant on the Urubamba River, from here, depending on the time, we will walk and / or take the train to Aguas Calientes, Night in a Hostel.

From here we take the zigzagged trail down to the hydroelectric dam on the Urubamba River and then to the bustling tourist town now known as Machu Picchu Pueblo (formerly called Aguas Calientes).

Located at the confluence of two of the preserve's rivers, the hydroelectric plant is in a perfect position to harness the energy of the rushing waters.

The dam began operating in 1964, making the hydroelectric development of Douro River flow.

It certainly still took its toll on our weary bodies but we stumbled along, reaching the river bed once more.We walked past the hydroelectric station before arriving at our lunch spot, also home to the train station where we would catch the train to Aguas Calientes, pit stop for the thousands of tourists visiting Machu Picchu.

Since the 1970s, when plans were first conceived to build a massive hydroelectric dam along the Xingu river in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the forces of development have had to contest with unyielding voices of protest --

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For example, suppose a conservation group is interested in saving the tremendous fish diversity in the great Mekong River where several new dams are under consideration for hydroelectric power.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

We have enormous hydroelectric resources in New York State with Niagara Falls and the St. Lawrence River.

he gigantic Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, located on the Xingu River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, stood just weeks away from beginning operation this week — but the...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-- Endangered salmon blocked for nearly a century from hundreds of miles of the Klamath River in Oregon and California are expected to return en masse under unusual agreements signed Wednesday to tear down four hydroelectric...