hydropower

How to use hydropower in a sentence

• Utility-scale batteries like the one in Panton could account for much of that new storage, along with hydropower pumped into reserve reservoirs.

  This Vermont Utility Is Revolutionizing Its Power Grid to Fight Climate Change. Will the Rest of the Country Follow Suit? | Alejandro de la Garza/Panton, Vt. | July 26, 2021 | Time

• Lund said to expect a wide range of impacts from low reservoirs this summer, including reduced hydropower production and reduced water deliveries to agriculture, fish and urban areas downstream.

  Reservoirs are drying up as consequences of the Western drought worsen | Diana Leonard, Laris Karklis, Zach Levitt | July 9, 2021 | Washington Post

• There’s the actual energy San Diegans consume, which for SDG&E is only 31 percent zero-carbon, meaning it comes from energy sources like solar, wind, biomass or hydropower.

  SDG&E Walks Back Claim it Delivers 45 Percent Renewable Energy | MacKenzie Elmer | May 3, 2021 | Voice of San Diego

• For components that are easier to replace or retrofit, or for operational changes like altering reservoir operations at hydropower dams, we can take a wait-and-see approach.

  As the Texas power crisis shows, our infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme weather | Amy Nordrum | March 6, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

• For Wright, agreeing to those demands risked undercutting the profits the utility earned from selling its hydropower at higher rates to outside markets.

  The American heartland needs jobs. Could Bitcoin mining become its next savior? | Jeff | December 12, 2020 | Fortune