Sentence examples for old hydropower from inspiring English sources
In addition to old hydropower plants, a hefty investment in wind, biomass and solar in recent years has raised the share of these sources in the total energy mix to 55%, compared with a global average of 12%, and about 20% in Europe.
Renewable energy now accounts for just 9.5percentt of the nation's electricity supply — much of it from decades-old hydropower plants.
More than 95percentt of the world's energy storage capacity is based on decades-old hydropower plants in countries like Germany, Japan and Brazil.
The program covers projects introduced or upgraded since 1995, a cutoff that would exclude older hydropower.
Reducing transmission losses and modernising older hydropower plants would cut the need for both, says Célio Bermann, a hydropower specialist at the University of São Paulo.
But many power plants suffer outages because they're old, while hydropower capacity falls during dry months, resulting to dwindling output and sometimes, rotating blackouts.
As a result, a renewed interest in pumped-hydro energy storage plants (PHES) and a huge demand for the rehabilitation of old small hydropower plants are emerging globally.
Hydropower is one of the oldest renewable energy forms known and one of the best solutions for providing electricity to rural communities.
The Brazilian case is particularly interesting, not only because energy is predominantly supplied by hydropower plants but also because new energy auctions reach prices below those for old energy.
The figure compares the potential environmental impacts related to the provision of 1 m3 water of the new plant (underground dam with hydropower plant), including the new distribution system (i.e., distribution with an optimized network), and the old plant (weir with diesel pumps), including the old distribution system (i.e., distribution with the old network).
