Sentence examples for hydropower schemes from inspiring English sources

Giant hydropower schemes in Africa have a poor track record.

It did not include large hydropower schemes, for which less robust data is available, but Irena estimated this sector to employ 1.3 million people in 2015.

These changes could quicken the prospects of big hydropower schemes in Manitoba, Labrador, British Columbia and Quebec, aimed at exporting electricity to the United States.But pipelines are the government's priority.

Tony Grayling, head of climate change and sustainable development at the Environment Agency, said: "Some hydropower schemes have the potential to deliver low-carbon electricity and improve the local environment for wildlife, for example by improving fish migration.

Under the "feed-in tariff" scheme, which comes in at the beginning of April, hydropower schemes could qualify for up to 20p for every kilowatt hour of hydroelectricity produced.

And whereas most commercial customers depend entirely on the grid today, they will need to take only a quarter of their power from it by 2030 and less than 5% by 2050.Renewables, excluding large hydropower schemes, now account for nearly a tenth of global power generation.

It comes less than two weeks after the president announced the surprise cancellation of the controversial Chinese-backed Myitsone dam hydropower scheme, officially because of public opposition.

In China's biggest hydropower scheme to date, construction firms in Liuku, Yunnan province, were to start work this year on the first of 13 dams that would together generate 21.3 million kilowatts of electricity.

It is shocking that the world's biggest hydropower scheme could go forward without an assessment of its social and environmental impacts and a resettlement action plan in place," said Bosshard.

There are also plans for two biomass boilers and a second hydropower scheme in 2014.

A £180,000 hydropower scheme is to generate "clean electricity" at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.