Sentence examples for large hydropower stations from inspiring English sources

Subsequently, emphasis is laid on estimating the electricity-generation utilization degree of the existing large hydropower stations, using 25-year long official data.

China's Three Gorges Dam — built from 1994 to 2008 — produces electricity equivalent to roughly 500 typical Chinese coal-fired power plants, which are far smaller than coal-fired power plants in the U.S. and Europe; Three Gorges is the largest hydropower station in the world.

Perhaps the best known example is the Three Gorges Project, the largest hydropower station in the world, which is only a few hundred miles west of Nanchang on the Yangtze River.

The renewables collectively provide 14% of the primary energy, in the form of traditional biomass (10%), large (>10 MW) hydropower stations (2%), and the "new renewables" (2%).

The state also has large ownership stakes in hydropower stations and electricity plants.

Europe has a large tradition of Small Hydropower stations (SHP); these proliferate wherever there was an adequate supply of moving water and a need for electricity.

There are to be built more than 400 hydropower stations in my country, but also large wind parks.

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].

Four major projects with large-scale rock underground caverns are discussed in this report; two hydropower stations, one underground oil storage facility and one underground museum in Japan.

Hydropower stations currently under construction around the globe will, when finished, produce 151 gigawatts of electricity — the equivalent of several thousand large, coal-fired power plants.

Large hydropower dams with associated lakes provide recreational facilities.