Sentences with phrase «with hydropower»

With hydropower continuing to be the major source of green energy production, Norway continues to dominate energy production, issuing GoOs equal to 65,4 TWh.

Some negative impacts of these changes were glacier retreat, increases in flood frequency, increases in morbidity and mortality, increases in forest fires, loss of biodiversity, increases in plant diseases, reduction in dairy cattle production and problems with hydropower generation.

In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the output of independent solar arrays and wind farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the output of a 24 - hour power plant.

But the characteristic of wind and solar is that they work much better in international cooperation — so UK would likely export a lot of power by the interconnectors when wind is strong, and imort power when wind is low in UK but strong elsewhere, or when solar power is cheap in southern europe, or when some remaining gaps could be filled with hydropower from scandinavia, from the alps or further away.

A number of African and small Asian countries also generate virtually all of their electricity with hydropower, including Bhutan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nepal, and Zambia.

Why were dual emergency and spillway failures, combined with hydropower flow blockage not addressed during relicensing?

New York had some plans to go from renewable energy to renewable - er energy, with hydropower to hydrogen in a $ 21 project near Niagara Falls.

There are plenty of products out there for charging your gadgets off grid, mostly solar - powered ones, so it caught my attention when a new technology launched on Kickstarter that could charge your devices with hydropower.

Among these include covering energy needs from renewable sources, which Costa Rica has successfully achieved by about 95 %, mostly with hydropower, followed by geothermal, wind, solar and biomass sources.

THE Chinese government is pressing ahead with hydropower, despite finally admitting last week that the Three Gorges dam has caused significant environmental problems.

Not exact matches

The analysis by the state - owned giant mentioned that China's energy sources are expected to become cleaner in the years ahead with increased investment in clean energy like hydropower and solar.

H2 Energy, together with IBAarau, has been working on the installation of a hydrogen generation plant at a hydropower facility in Aarau, in the country's north.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

Nikola plans to process its own hydrogen fuel at each station with on - site solar power, wind power or by buying electricity created through renewable sources such as hydropower.

Axiom continues to leverage its global partnerships with real estate owners and hydropower developers and expand its asset portfolio through acquisition and development of identified pipeline.

** Russia's En + Group, which manages businessman Oleg Deripaska's aluminium and hydropower businesses, plans to close a deal with Glencore to convert its stake in aluminium producer Rusal into En + by the end of the first quarter, En + Chief Executive Maxim Sokov told Reuters.

Solar, wind and hydropower, along with natural gas, will make up most of the difference.

Governor Paterson Approves Hydropower Contract Extensions with More Than 100 Western New York Companies Tuesday December 21, 2010 at 01:42 pm

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

Greenport Electric isn't listed but its rates, which like Rockville Centre's and Freeport's are subsidized by cheap hydropower from New York Power Authority, are on par with those two Long Island municipal utilities.

The nearly $ 2 million in earnings will come from the sale of hydropower that in 2012 was made available to the town of Massena to allocate to businesses in consultation with local economic development organizations, including the St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency and the St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency Local Development Corporation.

The village's contract with the New York Power Authority to transmit hydropower generated from Niagara Falls expires next month.

Buhari said while the borrowed funds would be used to finance the deficit in the 2017 budget, they would provide funding for the capital projects in the budget, including the Mambilla hydropower project; construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; counterpart funding for rail projects; and the construction of the Bodo - Bonny road, with a bridge across the Opobo Channel.

The additional fee was needed to cover a hike in the village's new long - term transmission agreement with the New York Power Authority, which transmits hydropower generated in Niagara Falls to Greenport, according to Mayor David Nyce.

In the meantime, Arcand said, Quebec has more hydropower than it knows what to do with.

A lot of hydropower was used to fuel the province's paper mills, but with deep cuts in newspaper production over the last decade, that power has lain dormant, Arcand said.

Before, we did work with muscle power, animal power (horses, mules, donkeys, oxen, camels), wind power on the oceans and in gristmills, a little hydropower, and open fire.

The economic benefits of the hydropower also extend to the other enterprises in the area that the customers do business with, so there is an extensive multiplier effect with billions of dollars in gross regional production directly or indirectly linked to the low - cost power.»

NYPA President and CEO Richard M. Kessel said: «Under Governor Paterson's leadership, the Power Authority made it the highest priority to negotiate contract extensions with the Niagara Project's more than 100 business customers to optimize the benefits of the low - cost hydropower for the Niagara Frontier economy.

Praxair, a global chemical company serving the aerospace, food and beverages, healthcare and semiconductors industries with facilities in Erie and Niagara Counties, receives low - cost hydropower that supports its more than 1,300 employees in its Western New York facilities.

We are pleased that Governor Paterson recognizes the importance of these jobs to our community and we look forward to continuing to work with NYPA President and CEO Richie Kessel on other hydropower issues that impact Niagara County.»

The administration has said hydropower could provide about 1,000 MW of replacement energy and transmission upgrades and energy efficiency, along with other renewable resources, will ensure the plant is replaced without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Dams are a major problem for some of these migrators — there are at least 37,600 hydropower dams in rivers globally, with hundreds more in progress.

«This state - funded study in cooperation with NOAA will help us understand how small particles in the air affect precipitation and hydropower generation.

Coupled with increased transmission infrastructure, favorable policies, subsidies, and renewable energy goals in states and cities, it's becoming more common to see wind, solar, hydropower and biomass use.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

Although Bristol Bay is targeted for mining and hydropower, it is currently surrounded by mostly undisturbed habitat, with no dams or hatcheries.

It supplies 1.3 billion people with water for irrigation and drinking, and offers the promise of unparalleled hydropower.

«The lack of comprehensive analysis regarding cumulative impact of small hydropower,» Kibler said, «is a significant research gap with important policy implications.»

«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.»

Renewable energy is on a fast track, too, with everything from biofuels to nuclear to hydropower being explored.

In the end, though, simply building such server farms in places that are naturally cool and renewably powered — think Facebook opening such a warehouse in Luleå, Sweden, with its chilly air and abundant hydropower in 2014 — may prove a like - able move.

PNNL researchers are working with officials and scientists from Laos, Brazil, and Australia — areas where hydropower is booming — to apply lessons learned from experience in the Pacific Northwest, where salmon is king and water provides about two - thirds of the region's power.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

Somewhere along the upper Aragón River, between the jagged peaks of the Pyrenees and a hydropower dam, conservation biologist Madis Põdra and his colleagues will release 10 or 12 captive - born European minks (Mustela lutreola) next week into a mink's idea of heaven: a pristine patch of Spanish wilderness with 150 kilometers of waterways.

«Our analysis showed that, from an energetic perspective, most photovoltaic technologies can only afford up to 24 hours of storage with an equal mix of battery and pumped hydropower,» Dale said.

Verdant, which operates its kinetic (non-dam) hydropower project in the East River under a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), plans to by the end of the year apply for a FERC pilot commercial license that would allow the company to create a field of up to 40 underwater turbines with up to 1.5 megawatts of capacity.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

As a long - time green campaigner, Tony Juniper was the obvious man to write it — and he has the wisdom to leave us with hope, as we contemplate the rise of small - scale hydropower and onshore wind energy, as well as sustainable, circular economies.

«Together, international energy trade and strategic siting can enable African countries to pursue «no - regrets» wind and solar that can compete with conventional generation technologies like coal and hydropower,» Wu said.