Sentences with phrase «small hydropower sector»

Current policies in China and many other nations encourage the growth of the small hydropower sector.

Policies supporting growth in the small hydropower sector are often crafted at the national or international level, Kibler noted.

«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»

But while employment rose in solar PV and wind, they were offset by losses in the solar thermal and small hydropower sectors, leading to an overall job decline of 2 % in the country.

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EREC is the umbrella organisation of the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations active in the sectors of photovoltaics, small hydropower, solar thermal, bioenergy, geothermal, ocean, concentrated solar power and wind energy, The European renewable energy sector has an annual turnover of EUR 70 billion and employs 550.000 people.

Implementation of favorable government regulations such as the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs in the U.S. and growing number of funding programs pertaining to the renewable energy sector in developed countries such as Italy and Canada are some of the factors which are expected to present future growth opportunities.

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