Examples of hydropower in a Sentence
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The hatchery program is part of a plan to mitigate challenges to the salmon population posed by hydropower projects, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
The most important predictor of a hydropower project’s impacts on ecosystems and people is its location.
—Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Dams along the Columbia-Snake River system provide more than one-third of all hydropower capacity in the United States, said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Washington Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
—Matthew Daly, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
Its banks finance the mostly Chinese companies now building highways, ports, hydropower dams, solar power plants, and electricity grids in over 20 countries.
—Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
That instantaneously draws more or less energy, respectively, out of the massive rotating machines in gas, coal, and hydropower plants, thus making the system whole.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
In addition to its proximity to key minerals and an industrial work force, Mo i Rana also offers cheap and green electricity thanks to hydropower fueled by snow melt, glacial runoff and the waterfalls that cascade through its craggy mountains.
—Ana Swanson Thomas Ekström, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
The river also serves Mexico and more than two dozen Native American tribes, produces hydropower, and supplies water to farms that grow most of the nation’s winter vegetables.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
Power grids usually tap fossil fuel power plants whenever hydropower runs low.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
The most important predictor of a hydropower project’s impacts on ecosystems and people is its location.
—Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Dams along the Columbia-Snake River system provide more than one-third of all hydropower capacity in the United States, said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Washington Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
—Matthew Daly, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
Its banks finance the mostly Chinese companies now building highways, ports, hydropower dams, solar power plants, and electricity grids in over 20 countries.
—Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
That instantaneously draws more or less energy, respectively, out of the massive rotating machines in gas, coal, and hydropower plants, thus making the system whole.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
In addition to its proximity to key minerals and an industrial work force, Mo i Rana also offers cheap and green electricity thanks to hydropower fueled by snow melt, glacial runoff and the waterfalls that cascade through its craggy mountains.
—Ana Swanson Thomas Ekström, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
The river also serves Mexico and more than two dozen Native American tribes, produces hydropower, and supplies water to farms that grow most of the nation’s winter vegetables.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
Power grids usually tap fossil fuel power plants whenever hydropower runs low.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
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First Known Use
1933, in the meaning defined above
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hydropower
noun
hy·dro·pow·er
ˈhī-drə-ˌpau̇(-ə)r 
: hydroelectric power
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