Sentences with phrase «scale hydroelectric»

Instead, in its bid to become the first sustainable economy in Latin America, Ecuador will be turning its focus on developing alternative energy projects, especially solar and geothermal, as well as the promotion of small - scale hydroelectric projects.

© Boardworks Ltd 20156 of 9 Large - scale hydroelectric power stations must be sited in high, mountainous areas.

In 2010, the governments of Brazil and Peru signed a bilateral energy agreement that called for a series of large - scale hydroelectric dams in the Amazon.

Life - cycle emissions from large - scale hydroelectric plants built in semi-arid regions are also modest: approximately 0.06 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

Large - scale hydroelectric dams continue to be built in many parts of the world (including China and Brazil), but it is unlikely that new facilities will be added to the existing US fleet in the future.

That is especially true of DEEP's comparison between large - scale hydroelectric power imported from Canada and the offshore wind that could be developed off Connectut's Atlantic coast,» Humphries said.

In Guatemala, for example, Mayan communities have been displaced from their lands by large - scale hydroelectric projects.

He criticised the Environment Agency for blocking small - scale hydroelectric energy schemes but said the main focus should be on larger solutions.

Not exact matches

One of the major limitations of hydroelectric power production is the inadequacy in small - scale production technologies.

The pavilion included a display from the New York State Power Authority with a 26 - foot scale replica of the St. Lawrence hydroelectric plant.

We have world scale reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, hydroelectric power, wood and other renewable sources too.

I'd love to see the full scale deployment of renewables, but someone is going to have to show me how intermittency doesn't make it an exercise in hand waving in the United States, which apparently lacks sufficient hydroelectric storage potential.

The projects announced last month include 22 utility - scale solar farms, three wind farms and a hydroelectric project.

The recently awarded projects include 22 solar farms, demonstrating that large - scale solar power is economically viable across the State, three wind projects, and one hydroelectric project.

And it can be deployed at any scale and at any point in the grid, from a small home storage system to a pumped hydroelectric reservoir big enough to power a small city.

Large - scale monitoring efforts in Canadian hydroelectric reservoirs suggests that CH4 bubbling constitutes less than 5 % of total emissions in many boreal systems (Tremblay pers.

The awarded projects — including 22 utility - scale solar farms, three wind farms and one hydroelectric project — are expected to create more than 3,000 short - and long - term jobs, generate enough clean energy to power more than 430,000 homes and reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tons, the equivalent of taking nearly 340,000 cars off the road.

Photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, hydroelectric power stations are more efficient and cost effective at a larger scale than a single building.

However, hydroelectric capacity is not readily scaled up as it is restricted by suitable geography, a constraint that also applies to pumped hydro storage.

... 328,000 new onshore 5 MW wind turbines (providing 30.9 % of U.S. energy for all purposes), 156,200 off - shore 5 MW wind turbines (19.1 %), 46,480 50 MW new utility - scale solar - PV power plants (30.7 %), 2,273 100 MW utility - scale CSP power plants (7.3 %), 75.2 million 5 kW residential rooftop PV systems (3.98 %), 2.75 million 100 kW commercial / government rooftop systems (3.2 %), 208 100 MW geothermal plants (1.23 %), 36,050 0.75 MW wave devices (0.37 %), 8,800 1 MW tidal turbines (0.14 %), and 3 new hydroelectric power plants (all in Alaska).

The designers, Hierve, say this concept uses the same technique as a conventional hydroelectric generator, but on a much smaller scale.

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Notable mandates: Acting for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regarding the development and financing of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project, also known as the «Lower Churchill Project»; acting for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador concerning the development and operation of the Hebron offshore oilfield project and the Hibernia South oilfield expansion project; acting for developers and placing financing on new hotel developments in downtown St. John's; defending class action claims involving product liability and taxation issues at a certification hearing and a common issues trial and appeal; acting for mining corporations involved in large - scale mine development projects in Labrador