Sentences with phrase «small hydropower plant»

This is realized by a small hydropower plant of 21 MW installed capacity, located in the city of Costa Rica in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

It was not too long ago that the world turned to developing small hydropower plants.

Their research reports that nearly 83,000 small hydropower plants are operating or are under construction in 150 countries.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

Many biomass cogeneration plants and small hydropower plants are already in operation in Brazil, and more are under construction.

The electric sector in Brazil has been supplied traditionally by 88 % great hydropower plants, 8 % thermal, 1 % small hydropower plants, and 3 % nuclear.

Not exact matches

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.

One of the challenges the researchers faced in compiling these numbers is that countries define «small» hydropower plants differently.