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Monitoring River Flushing and Hydropower from Space

Planet Pulse

There are innumerable dams around the world helping communities manage water supply, regulate flooding, and generate hydropower. Sedimentation that settles in reservoirs can build up over time, leading to a loss of water storage capacity and damaging hydropower dams, turbines, and water intakes. Image Credit: EOMAP. Image Credit: EOMA.

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The Stretch of River Holding Spain’s Pumped Hydro Future

GreenTechMedia

” Furthermore, said the developer, the Riba-roja is part of the Natura 2000 European network of core breeding and resting sites for rare and threatened species. Neither developer responded to requests for information from GTM.

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Doteasy Technology Inc: A Certified Sustainable Web Hosting Solution

Green Business Bureau

Established in 2000, Doteasy is a Canadian web hosting company specializing in domain name registration and sustainable web hosting solutions. All of Doteasy’s operations are run using 100% renewable hydropower, this includes the running of their data centers. This province mostly runs on 100% renewable hydropower. Data centers.

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Forget King Coal. Solar Is ‘New King’ of Global Power Markets, Says IEA

GreenTechMedia

Hydropower will continue as the largest source of renewable power, according to the IEA. From 2000-2019, solar generation increased by 664 gigawatt-hours from a base close to zero. There is currently twice as much installed hydro as there is solar, but PV could grow three times faster from now till 2040. degrees Celsius.

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Sustainable infrastructure developer, Generate Capital, raises $2B

Renewable Energy World

The company works with more than 40 technology and project development partners, manages more than 2000 assets and has more than 1,000 customers, including companies, universities, school districts, cities and non-profits across North America.

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Over 500 new dams planned for protected areas worldwide

AGreenLiving

For example, two hydropower projects in Romania pose a danger to Natura 2000 sites. Related: Hydropower demand is damaging Indigenous lands The study has established that many governments are redefining boundaries of protected lands to create room for construction.

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Making the Case for an Integrated Energy Market in the Southeastern US

GreenTechMedia

That’s primarily because renewable energy’s growth will remain challenging without a more flexible and regionally coordinated system to balance the intermittency of wind and solar power through geographic diversity and a broader range of hydropower dams, new battery storage and other balancing resources.

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