Sentence examples for hydroelectric generating from inspiring English sources

Only a tiny fraction of Nepal's hydroelectric generating capacity has been exploited.

In addition to its nuclear power activities, the agency operates 12 coal-burning power plants, 30 hydroelectric generating plants and dams, and employs 30,000 workers.

The provincial government of Quebec granted 14 Inuit, or Eskimo, villages a $450 million development program today in exchange for their agreement to expand hydroelectric generating capacity in the northern reaches of the province.

It also powers two of the largest hydroelectric generating plants in America, at Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, and provides irrigation for more than six million acres of farmland, much of it in Southern California.

Among power companies, the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District is among those that have also signaled an intention to fight in court the potential loss of hydroelectric generating capacity, saying that it would cost the state's ratepayers at least $25 million a year.

The northernmost of those lakes spills as much as a third of a billion gallons a day into a tunnel, which carries the water under the park, through five hydroelectric generating plants, and into a distribution system that serves a large area east of the mountains, including the city of Boulder.

Hydroelectric generated about 130 megawatts during the 1990's, about 4percentt of the generating capacity of Northeast Utilities before the industry was deregulated this year.

More than 80% of Brazil's installed generating capacity of about 70,000 MW is hydroelectric, generated by the nation's 450 dams [BEN, 2005], which explains why Brazilian power generation is cleaner with regard to local pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.

There, on the Xingu River in the Amazon basin, a consortium of companies is building the Belo Monte dam complex, which will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric project, generating abundant electricity for Brazil's rapidly growing economy.

Japan, a mountainous country whose short rivers have steep drops but relatively small volumes of water flow, has already harnessed much of its hydroelectric potential; generating capacity, however, is increased by heavy rains, particularly in summer.

This paper estimates changes in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change, by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) applied to the hydroelectric energy generating plants of EDP — the Portugal Electricity Company.