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
• But such major hydropower projects are largely a thing of the past.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The money would compensate the tribe for the use of its lands for decades of hydropower production.
  — Becky Kramer, The Seattle Times, 24 Mar. 2018
• 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
• At night, the water would run back down the cliffs through a tunnel, passing through a turbine to create hydropower.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 20 June 2017
• 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
• Central Maine Power was a late entrant in the race for the hydropower connection.
  — Joshua Miller and Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
• 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
• The dam, a 6,450-megawatt hydropower project that’s nearing completion just miles from the Ethiopia-Sudan border, has been a point of contention in the region.
  — Kavya Balaraman, Scientific American, 5 May 2017
• 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
• The water provides life for the region, not only for the local creatures, but for agriculture and hydropower.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
• Dongfang, which enjoyed a 45% share in the conventional hydropower market, could rake in as much as 54 billion yuan from the new project, according to Lau.
  — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 July 2025