Sentence examples for massive hydropower from inspiring English sources

The massive hydropower potential of the Congo river, estimated at about 40,000MW, is such a target.

So India is promoting cross-border trade and a regional electricity grid (some of its neighbours have massive hydropower potential), creating infrastructure on its borders, relaxing visas and doling out aid.

Ethiopia has committed to developing wind and solar alongside its massive hydropower plants as guarantors against power shortages, especially during the dry season, while investments in geothermal and biofuels complement the intermittent resources.

On day five, Martin Patience looks at both the triumph and the human cost of China's massive hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam.

According to these groups, plans for massive hydropower development will result in irreversible environmental impacts on the Selenga river basin and Lake Baikal, and will also have significant socio-economic impacts on the communities who depend upon these resources.

In India, a desperate search for energy to meet rapidly growing demand is sending energy companies high into the Nepalese Himalayas to tap massive and undeveloped hydropower resources.

Already last year a massive Chinese-backed hydropower project in the northern state of Kachin that was designed to export electricity to China was suspended after objections that the Chinese — with the help of local elites — were exploiting Myanmar's natural resources to the detriment of its people.

That attitude must change: deforestation threatens to unleash a massive carbon bomb while hydropower will lead to dangerous methane emissions, thus exacerbating our climate change conundrum.

During the past decade, Ethiopia has pursued a Chinese-style rush to develop its economy: locking up dissenters, crushing the opposition with a succession of 99% electoral victories, and building massive road, rail, agribusiness and hydropower schemes without pausing to conduct the necessary social and environmental impact assessments.

The projects form part of Brazil's plans to install 25GW of new hydropower capacity by 2024 and create a massive industrial waterway to allow soya and other crops to be exported more easily to Europe.

We are seeing change: countries are shifting from fossil fuels to renewable forms of energy with massive new investments in well-known types of renewables, like hydropower, geothermal, solar and wind.