'hydropower plants' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence such as: "Hydropower plants are a reliable source of renewable energy."
Latvia has hydropower plants on the Western Dvina River.
Those rules govern how the Housatonic's hydropower plants harness river water.
But hydropower plants require access to ample sources of surface water.
But they too want to build hydropower plants in their own countries.
Windfarms such as Peralta now feed into hydropower plants so that dams can maintain their reservoirs longer after rainy seasons.
A further complication is that a drought last year is threatening electricity generation at Brazil's big hydropower plants.
In Norway, which gets nearly all of its electricity from dams, climate change on balance may benefit hydropower plants.
A decade ago that largely meant paying for Bhutan to build big hydropower plants that exported energy back to India.
Next, the government auctioned off contracts to private companies to build and operate wind and hydropower plants.
Like some American states, Portugal has for decades generated electricity from hydropower plants on its raging rivers.
The government is working to avoid problems like this, he says, and will plan for new hydropower plants, for example, to be built away from settlements.
