Sentences with phrase «surplus hydro power»

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So rather than selling off this surplus power (often at a loss), Ontario will now take advantage of the storage offered by Quebec's hydro reservoirs.

Even costly negotiated buy - outs will reduce hydro costs significantly, due to the high cost of disposing of surplus power.

That surplus, in turn, would create a condition in which traditional power producers, including hydro, might have to be idled.

The result is that two - thirds of wind [power] generation is surplus to demand and must be wasted or dissipated either through forced curtailment of hydro and nuclear generation, or by increased exports to Quebec and the United States, generally at low prices.

For example, when the Supergrid is available if there is no wind in the Mediterranean and Italy is short of power, surplus hydro - power from Norway could be routed to Italy.