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India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October

India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October India produced a record amount of electricity from coal in October to make up for a shortfall in hydro generation following lower-than-normal monsoon rains. Coal remains fundamental to the country’s energy security, despite rapid deployment of wind and solar generation, underscoring the challenge of reducing […]

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Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts

Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts As Europe looks to secure alternative energy sources to Russian gas in light of the war in Ukraine, Statista’s Anna Fleck warns, a new threat to energy security is stirring, this time from droughts. The droughts hitting Europe are impacting everything from food to transportation to the environment. In Italy, the River Po […]

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Worst Drought in 91 Years Turns Brazil Into Hot Spot for LNG

Worst Drought in 91 Years Turns Brazil Into Hot Spot for LNG  State-run oil company is seeking liquefied natural gas cargoes  Water crisis curbs hydropower supplies across South America Brazil’s worst water crisis in almost a century is turning Latin America’s biggest economy into a hot spot for liquefied natural gas. As hydropower output declines, […]

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Climate change effects on hydropower in California

Climate change effects on hydropower in California Preface. The main impact of climate change will be on hydropower in California, which is the largest source of renewable electric power. Besides natural gas, it is the only dispatchable form of power to balance unreliable, intermittent wind and solar power. But hydropower is often unavailable (i.e. drought, […]

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Hydropower can’t help with the energy crisis

Hydropower can’t help with the energy crisis Preface. When fossil fuels are gone, there aren’t many ways to balance the unreliable, intermittent, and often absent for weeks at a time power from wind and solar.  Biofuels and burning biomass is one solution, it’s dispatchable and can kick in at any time to make up for […]

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How to Make Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly

How to Make Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly Humanity got its first large-scale electricity thanks to hydropower. On Aug. 26, 1895, water flowing over Niagara Falls was diverted to spin two generators, producing electricity to manufacture aluminum and carborundum. Since then, millions of dams have been built worldwide, transforming the energy of moving water into the energy of […]

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