Sentence examples for hydropower effects from inspiring English sources

Those evolutionary effects that have been considered to date tend to be the result of direct intentional or unintentional selection (e.g. harvest and hydropower effects Ricker 1981; Quinn and Adams 1996; Achord et al. 2007).

To ensure the stable and reliable operation of hydropower stations, the effect of electric loads with different characteristic should be further analyzed.

This paper presents a meta-analysis of existing research related to the economic valuation of the external effects of hydropower.

The goal of our study was to develop an approach for characterizing the effects of hydropower plant operations on within-day flow regimes across multiple dams and rivers.

A characterization of short-term changes in river flow is essential for understanding the ecological effects of hydropower plants, which operate by turning the turbines on or off to generate electricity following variations in the market demand (i.e., hydropeaking).

The main objective of this paper is to identify the effects of hydropower development, flood protection and engineering works for navigation on the Danube and to examine specific impacts of these developments on sediment transport and river morphology.

These findings provide a clear picture of both positive and negative effects of hydropower development for decision-makers in the monetary term, and also provide a basis for further design of environmental instrument such as payment for watershed ecosystem services.

A number of often retrospective fish passage improvements have been designed to reduce ecosystem wide effects of (hydropower) dams [ 9].

So climate change will have some kind of effect on hydropower production, but the flip side is that the case for hydropower rests partly on the desire to combat greenhouse gas emissions.

From the simulation results of the present design, it was found that paddle wheels are the elements that convert the flow energy to mechanical energy and bottom fins have the major effect in hydropower generation.

Ironically, for Macedonia and Albania to fulfil their aspirations of EU accession, they may need to roll back the effects of a hydropower boom that the EU's investment banks have foisted upon them.