Sentence examples for use of hydropower from inspiring English sources
Turbine development was associated, after 1890, with the use of hydropower to generate electricity, both for industrial activities, and for the benefits of cities.
Brazil has a clean energy matrix, mainly due to its intensive use of hydropower for electricity generation and sugarcane ethanol for transportation.
The use of hydropower provides an important technical advancement over hand-operated grain mills, which steadily increased over large parts of Europe from the early Middle Ages onwards.
A method for evaluating and ranking energy alternatives based on impact upon the natural environment and cultural heritage was developed as part of the first phase of an Icelandic framework plan for the use of hydropower and geothermal energy.
China also achieved exceptional growth in the use of hydropower for the generation of electricity, increasing capacity and output by 23% in 2012.
Key factors included the shift to shale gas for energy in the US while China increased its use of hydropower by 23%.
Many of these farmers have little incentive to upgrade their systems, when water is provided to them at a discount through direct subsidies, interest exemptions, writing-off part of the cost of dams and the use of cheap hydropower from those dams.
Ex-ante approach inferred rampant urbanisation, burgeoning population, climate change, high variation in rainfall pattern, change in land use pattern, presence of hydropower projects and lack of decentralised sewage treatment facilities have led to increased stress on the existing water resources in the study area.
Such estimation, using sustainability indicators of hydropower projects, enables us to understand marginal trade-offs among economic, environmental and social objectives of hydropower development.
In the last decade, Brazil has achieved significant emissions cuts thanks to efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon and increase in the use of energy from hydropower and other renewable sources including wind, solar and biomass.
In Brazil, the road toward wind power began in the 1970s, when oil shortages led the government to ramp up oil production and develop the use of biofuel and hydropower.
