How to Use hydropower in a Sentence

hydropower

noun

• The hydropower plant didn't just impact the region's wildlife, but the livelihood of the people living around the lake, as well.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• Add a drought in the West that has dried up hydropower production.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• According to Bain, a few things could be done to make up for a decrease in hydropower.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• In addition to the massive amount of hydropower, the authors found the glacier basins could hold a combined 48% of the runoff from current glaciers.
  — Eric Roston, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2019
• But more needs to be resolved for the river to remain a viable source of water and hydropower.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
• Even more, the loss of ice and snow in the mountains threatens agriculture and hydropower in the regions down below.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2019
• China has approved the construction of a hydropower dam in Tibet that is set to be the largest of its kind in the world once complete.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
• With the global boom in hydropower, more and more dams are being built on land that was set aside for protection.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
• The hydropower plant at the same reservoir may be forced offline for the first time because of low water. Standoff.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 19 June 2021
• If enacted, the new legislation would put hydropower from CFE at the front of the line.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• Among the sub-sectors, the hydropower, chicken, and pork sub-sectors were among the top performers overnight.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• But even with close to a decade restoring the landscape, sediment still shows up in hydropower bays, Fecko said.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 29 May 2022
• Plus, the batteries can be recharged and power the ships while in port thanks to Norway’s robust hydropower grid.
  — Elissa Garay, TIME, 25 July 2024
• Dominique Bain is the co-author of a 2018 paper on the impacts of drought and climate change on hydropower in the Southwestern US.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• This type of hydropower is not the answer to providing lots more storage.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• That’s the point at which Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams can no longer produce hydropower because there is not enough water to flow through the turbines safely.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
• That’s partly a result of China’s crackdown, which cut off a source of cheap hydropower.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• The two reservoirs are the largest on the river and help manage water and hydropower for more than 40 million people in seven states.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• That’s because the water is free, except for a $75 treatment cost, and generates hydropower along the way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• The use of renewables like wind, solar, and hydropower are growing but still make up just 20% of the energy mix.
  — Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
• About 30 people, most of them teenagers, had just returned from a tour at a nearby hydropower plant and stopped on the footbridge to take photos of the extreme flow of the river.
  — SFChronicle.com, 20 Jan. 2020
• Robison pulls out his binoculars and looks for birds while Hayes and I evaluate the pros and cons of hydropower.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• And grassroots efforts against hydropower dams and lithium mining have taken shape in the West.
  — Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 13 Oct. 2022
• In the rush for green energy, at one point, as many as 45 hydropower plants were planned across the region, portending a dismal fate for the species that call the river home.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 17 Mar. 2023
• So much rain and snow may boost hydropower — good news for California’s grid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• The Himalayan area has a chain of hydropower projects on several rivers and their tributaries.
  — Time, 8 Feb. 2021
• Today, more than 170 cities and towns across the U.S. have promised to shift their power supply from coal and natural gas to solar, wind, and hydropower.
  — Shannon Osaka, Wired, 9 Jan. 2021
• Historically, most of the funding for the fish recovery program has come from the sale of hydropower at the very dams that endanger the fish in the first place.
  — Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022
• China’s energy initiatives are to be realized through massive investments in nuclear power, hydropower, – including the world’s largest hydropower project in Tibet – and infrastructure modernization.
  — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
• But because solar, wind and hydropower production rates can vary with weather and other factors, nuclear energy is particularly appealing to ever thirsty AI technology companies, raising fears of nuclear waste contamination.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025