Sentence examples for amounts of hydropower from inspiring English sources

Record amounts of hydropower capacity came online in 2008 and 2009, the most recent years for which data are available, according to Richard Taylor, executive director of the International Hydropower Association in London.

El Hierro aimed to be the world first 100% renewable energy island but currently operates at around 35% VRE and uses a significant amount of hydropower and pump hydro storage to balance supply and demand [31].

The results demonstrate that the optimal joint operation of both reservoirs can increase the amount of hydropower generation to 1.307 billion kW h/year (about 594 million USD) and increase the amount of water supply to 36.57 billion m3/year (about 15% improvement).

Last year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Suffolk's plan to broaden the county electricity agency, which now provides small amounts of low-cost hydropower to homes and businesses.

In private even academics in favour of hydropower development complain that nearly all relevant information, even the amount of rain that reaches them, is treated as a state secret.

Even Chinese academics in favour of hydropower complain that nearly all information to do with these rivers, even the amount of rain that reaches them, is treated as a state secret.Those who oppose the dam-building on environmental grounds, or out of concern for perhaps 500,000 locals, mainly ethnic minorities, who are being displaced and forcibly resettled, ask that their names not be published.

Traditionally, large amounts of electricity are stored by pumped-storage hydropower stations, which account for >99% of the long-time electricity storage in Germany [6].

The same may be true of hydropower.

The top three states in production of hydropower?

Paul LePage, Maine's governor, a fan of hydropower, wants more dams, not fewer.

It also has about 2.5GW of hydropower in Italy and elsewhere.