Sentences with phrase «river hydropower plant»

It was also the key topic for First Climate's recent company - wide excursion which took the teams from Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia to the run - of - river hydropower plant at Iffezheim in Southern Germany.

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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.

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.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

Many of the negative impacts of hydropower center on what the damming of rivers does to the native plants and animals in the waterways that are affected.

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.

The Rhone River has 19 hydropower plants supplying 25 % of France's hydropower and 4 % of the total energy supply.

Run - of - river configurations were selected for the Rio Madeira hydropower plants because they virtually eliminate the need for reservoirs and the subsequent flooding of land, greatly reducing the environmental footprint.

In 2015 State Grid won a contract to build a 2,500 km line in Brazil, from the Belo Monte hydropower plant on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, to Rio de Janeiro.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is building the Broadland Hydropower Project on the Kelani River as a run - of - river (ROR) type power pRiver as a run - of - river (ROR) type power priver (ROR) type power plant.