Hydroelectric power is an abundant and renewable source of energy.
水力发电是一种丰富且可再生的能源。
The
hydro plant provides electricity to the entire city.
水电站为整个城市提供电力。
We need to maintain the
hydro turbines regularly for optimal performance.
我们需要定期维护水轮机以实现最佳性能。
The flood caused by heavy rain led to the shutdown of the
hydro facility.
大雨引发的洪水导致水电设施关闭。
The
hydro dam controls the flow of water in the river.
水坝控制着河流中的水流。
The government plans to invest in more
hydro projects to meet growing energy demands.
政府计划投资更多水力项目以满足日益增长的能源需求。
The
hydroelectric station harnesses the force of falling water to generate electricity.
水力发电厂利用下落水的力量来发电。
The region has vast potential for
hydroelectric power generation.
该地区具有巨大的水力发电潜力。
The
hydroelectric project will provide employment opportunities for local residents.
水力工程项目将为当地居民提供就业机会。
The drought has affected the production capacity of our
hydroelectric plant.
干旱影响了我们水电站的生产能力。
Xylem specializes in water and wastewater technologies such as treatment systems, analytical instruments, pumps and hydro turbines.
Xylem专门从事水和废水技术，如处理系统、分析仪器、泵和水轮机。
China has continued with overseas energy development in recent years, spanning from hydro, wind, solar to conventional power generation, said Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at BloombergNEF.
BloombergNEF的电力市场分析师魏汉阳表示，近年来，中国继续进行海外能源开发，从水电、风能、太阳能到传统发电。
Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at research firm BloombergNEF, said as the world's largest power storage unit that can last for 10.8 hours, the Fengning pumped hydro station has a good location to support key regions including Beijing and Tianjin.
研究公司BloombergNEF的电力市场分析师魏汉阳表示，作为世界上最大的可持续10.8小时的储能机组，丰宁抽水蓄能电站拥有支持北京和天津等关键地区的良好位置。
China's State Power Investment Corp has seen its installed capacity of clean energy reach 60 percent as of the end of November, up from 43.3 percent in 2016, and vowed to further boost the percentage of installed capacity in wind, hydro, solar and nuclear power in the years to come.
截至11月底，中国国家电力投资公司的清洁能源装机容量已从2016年的43.3%上升到60%，并承诺在未来几年进一步提高风能、水力、太阳能和核能装机容量的比例。
With GNA I entering commercial operation, SPIC's controllable capacity in Brazil reached 2.21 Gigawatts, with a more balanced and risk-resilient portfolio in hydro, gas and wind assets.
随着GNA I投入商业运营，国家电投在巴西的可控装机容量达到2.21吉瓦，其在水电、燃气和风电资产的投资组合更加均衡，风险抵御能力更强。
"Tencent has chosen regions with sufficient green energy to build its data centers, such as Huailai in north China's Hebei Province that has abundant wind electricity, or Qingyuan in south China's Guangdong Province that has abundant hydro power.
腾讯选择了具有充足绿色能源的地区来建设其数据中心，比如中国华北地区的河北省怀来县，那里风力发电丰富，或者中国华南地区的广东省清远市，那里水力发电丰富。
As the dominant electricity distributor in the world's biggest energy consumption market, the company kicked off three pumped hydro storage plants in Shanxi, Zhejiang and Shandong provinces in December, to ease idled solar and wind power capacity.
作为全球最大的电力消费市场的主要电力供应商，该公司于12月在山西、浙江和山东三省启动了三个抽水蓄能电站，以缓解闲置的太阳能和风能产能。
The company started construction of 21 pumped hydro storage plants during the past five years, with a total installed capacity of more than 28 million kilowatts, it said.
该公司在过去五年中开始建设21座抽水蓄能电站，总装机容量超过2800万千瓦，它说。
Pumped hydro storage allows excess power to be saved by pumping water from lower to upper reservoirs when electricity demand is low, then releasing it back down to generate electricity when consumption is high.
抽水蓄能是一种储能技术，它利用电力需求低时将水从下水库抽到上水库储存，然后在电力消耗高时再将水释放回下水库以生成电能。
The nation aims to develop about 40 gigawatts of pumped hydro storage capacity by this year-end.
该国的目标是到今年年底发展约40千兆瓦的抽水蓄能电站容量。
Meanwhile, the construction of two 10 GW-class power generation bases where wind, solar and hydro power generation facilities were integrated for ecology purposes is in full swing in Qinghai province, aiming at bringing more clean power into tens of thousands of households.
The company is one of the country's largest hydro and thermal power project providers in terms of both revenue and overseas market share.
"The company (Sinopec) has spearheaded China's clean diesel development in the past few years and also invested heavily on upgrading the hydro refining plant capacity.
According to the contract agreement involving $40.1 million, CGGC will take part in pre-power generation activities of Ethiopia's grand hydro-electric dam, which will be regarded as Africa's largest hydro dam upon completion with a total volume of 74,000 million cubic meters, the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) revealed on Tuesday.
EEP also on Tuesday revealed that it signed another agreement with Voith Hydro Shanghai, which is part of the Voith Hydro that headquartered in Germany with specialization on manufacturing of turbines and turbine generator sets, for the installation and commissioning of six turbine generators at the GERD.
Officials at the Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) recently told Xinhua that the East African country is working to reach 17,300 MW of energy by the end of 2020, from the current 4,280 MW of energy through energy projects in hydro, wind, geothermal and biomass energy.
Joseph Jacobelli, a senior analyst of Asian utilities at Bloomberg Intelligence in Hong Kong, said many Chinese power companies are acquiring renewable energy assets as well as large-scale solar farms and hydro projects.
This company is one of the seven Chinese companies participating in the Himalayan Hydro Expo that kicked off in Kathmandu on Friday.
CTG's overseas electricity generation reached 20 billion kilowatt-hours in 2016, mainly from clean energy including hydro power, wind power and solar power, with facilities scattered across the globe, including in Brazil, Greece and Pakistan.
In December 2015, SPIC purchased Pacific Hydro for $2.5 billion from Australia's largest pension fund investor IFM Investors.
Pacific Hydro had almost one gigawatt of wind and hydropower assets at the time of acquisition, located in Brazil, Chile, and Australia.
The Ethiopian government plans to increase its electricity generation capacity from the current 4,200 mW to about 17,300 mW by 2020 using hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass and solar energy.
In addition, products and solutions such as carbon capture technology for green and low-carbon development, large-scale pumped hydro storage units for hydropower and 3D ultrasound detection devices will be prominently featured.
Last year, the power generation of clean energy, such as hydro, wind, solar and nuclear energy, rose 8.5 percent year-on-year, while non-fossil energy consumption went up 0.8 percentage points to account for 17.5 percent of the country's total power consumption.
The country is top globally in its installed capacities of wind, photovoltaic, hydro and biomass power.
Last year, US-based industrial gases manufacturer Air Products established a hydro fueling station in Shandong's Zibo to support the city's green public transport and logistics services.
Building hydro dams, of course, takes into account habitat protection for terrestrial wildlife.
Key coal companies will be encouraged to raise production and supply while ensuring safety, and the capacity of wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power will be increased to ensure energy supply during summer peak time.
Wang Lu, an analyst tracking the Asian renewables sector at Bernstein, a consultancy, said use of renewables has been increasing as the NEA has proposed targets for renewable power consumption from 2021 to 2030, under which the share of renewables, including hydro, solar photovoltaics, wind and biomass in electricity consumption will rise to 40 percent in 2030, compared with 29.5 percent in 2020.
"China has in recent years been investing in Pakistan under the CPEC in the energy sector with a special focus on producing nonpolluting energy by utilizing clean resources including solar, wind and hydro," said Muzaffar Ali, chairman of the Energy Engineering Department of the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.
The promotion of photovoltaic and wind power as well as pumped hydro storage projects has played a major role, with photovoltaic, wind and hydropower accounting for 55.1 percent, 32.1 percent and 7.9 percent of the province's total new energy installed capacity, respectively, the power supplier said.
Clean energy investment abroad by Chinese enterprises has spread across major countries and regions, covering wind, photovoltaic and hydro power, which, on the basis of mutual benefit and win-win results, has assisted the locals in their low-carbon growth, Pan said.
Electrochemical energy storage, or new energy storage, refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheels and super-capacitor systems but not pumped hydro.
New energy storage refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and super-capacitor systems, but not pumped hydro.
"Energy storage systems, such as advanced batteries, pumped hydro storage and compressed air energy storage, will play a key role in maintaining a stable energy supply from various renewable sources," said Ye Xiaoning, senior engineer from the new energy department of the State Grid Energy Research Institute.
Additionally, pumped hydro storage excels in providing large-scale, long-duration storage, ideal for seasonal energy imbalances, according to the report.
Han Bing, associate research and analysis director of Global Commodity Power and Renewable Energy, said China currently has sufficient pumped hydro energy storage reserve projects to help make it a major flexible power source by 2030.
New energy storage refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and supercapacitor systems, but not pumped hydro.
Liu Mingyang, an official with the National Energy Administration, said the industry regulator has launched various measures like improving the accuracy of forecasts for new energy power generation, establishing an appropriate proportion of energy storage facilities, and promoting the integrated use of wind, solar, hydro and thermal energy sources.
China has devoted significant resources to the construction of its renewable energy capacity in recent years, coming up with large wind, solar and hydro plants across the country as it seeks to meet a target of peak carbon emissions before 2030, said Luo Zuoxian, head of intelligence and research at the Sinopec Economics and Development Research Institute.
New energy storage refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and supercapacitor systems but not pumped hydro.
"Compared with traditional pumped hydro storage, new energy storage has the advantages of flexible site selection, short construction periods, rapid and flexible responses and diverse application scenarios.
It can complement pumped hydro storage and address the randomness and high volatility issues brought by the integration of new energy sources into the power system.
As a conventional form of power storage, pumped hydro — which makes up 77.6 percent of the country's total power storage projects — saw its installed capacity reach 45.79 million kW by the end of 2022, ranking tops worldwide, the council said.
Consumption of newly added renewable energy, including wind, solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal power, will not be included in the total energy consumption control in China, said a statement jointly released by the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Bureau of Statistics and the National Energy Administration on Wednesday.
The country currently leads globally in installed capacities of wind, photovoltaic, hydro, and biomass power as it presses ahead with a green development path.
The country leads globally in installed capacities of wind, photovoltaic, hydro, and biomass power as it presses ahead with a green development path.
China leads globally in installed capacities for wind, photovoltaic, hydro and biomass power, as it presses ahead with a green development path," Wei said.
Pumped-storage hydropower projects pump water to an upstream reservoir during off-peak times — that is, the times when there is redundant electricity; and when electricity is needed, the stored power will be released to the lower reservoir the same way a conventional hydro station generates electricity.
The region has also been stepping up construction of pumped-storage hydro projects as well as electrochemical energy storage projects to facilitate the green transition.
The three-day event will showcase new technologies, achievements and products in clean energy equipment and related fields around the world, featuring the core technologies in the utilization of hydro, wind, bioenergy, tidal energy and solar energies, as well as the applications of new-energy technologies in automobile manufacturing.
During periods of high power demand, the stored power will be released to the lower reservoir the same way a conventional hydro station generates electricity.
The new-type energy storage systems, meaning all technologies except pumped hydro, is a flexible way of adjusting resource allocation that plays a key role in the large scale of wind and solar energy, said Li Jingru, vice-president of State Grid Economic and Technological Research Institute Co Ltd.
The 30 GW includes storage using electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and super-capacitor systems, except pumped hydro.
Overall first-half energy sector investment was up 15.9 percent year-on-year, including the approval of six nuclear units, the operation of 10 hydropower stations and pumped-storage hydro projects, as well as some ultrahigh voltage direct current projects, said the administration.
China's power generation from clean sources including hydro, wind and solar grew rapidly in the first half of 2022, rising 12.8 percent year-on-year to 1.235 trillion kilowatt-hours, data from the National Energy Administration showed.
To meet demand, the government also vowed steady development of renewable energy in the country, including hydro, nuclear, solar and wind power.
Li said the government will also step up energy storage capacity construction, including underground gas storage, pumped hydro energy storage and chemical storage to ensure sufficient energy supply.
China has been stepping up the development of energy storage, including pumped hydro energy storage and chemical storage, to ensure more of the power generated by renewable energy can be connected to the national grid, he added.
China has been stepping up development of energy storage, including pumped hydro energy storage and chemical storage, to ensure more of the power generated by renewable energy can be connected to the national grid, he added.
He emphasized the development of floating solar in hydro dams as well as the implementation of solar-integrated agriculture, notably in China.
New energy storage refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and supercapacitor systems but not pumped hydro, which uses water stored behind dams to generate electricity when needed.
On the other hand, the country has also been making major commitments to transitioning its energy systems toward renewables, especially power generation from solar, wind and hydro sources.
The gradual increase of renewable energy, including wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power, and the fading need for fossil fuels boost technological innovation in China and support the nation in providing more solutions in the sphere, he added.
The company vowed to boost the percentage of installed capacity in wind, hydro, solar and nuclear power in the years ahead.
The company will continuously push forward the construction of pumped-storage hydropower stations during the 14th Five-Year-Plan period (2021-25) and will invest more than 100 billion yuan to build several pumped hydro storage plants across the country with a total installed capacity of 20 million kilowatts.
该公司将在“十四五”规划期间（2021年至2025年）持续大力推进抽水蓄能电站建设，计划投资超过1000亿元人民币，在全国范围内建设数个抽水蓄能电站，总装机容量达2000万千瓦。
Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University, echoed his view, adding that pumped hydro energy storage will see an increase in its market share as it is becoming cost competitive.
厦门大学中国能源政策研究院院长林伯强对此观点表示赞同，并补充指出，随着抽水蓄能成本竞争力的提升，其市场份额将会有所增长。
Despite the fall in fossil fuel consumption, the world has seen a rise in renewable energy consumption by 9.7 percent including wind, hydro and solar power.
尽管化石燃料消耗量有所下降，全球范围内包括风能、水能和太阳能在内的可再生能源消费量却增长了9.7%。
The company said the project will take advantage of the massive desert areas and the hydro resources in the upstream reaches of the Yellow River, while fully tapping the potential of hydro, wind and solar resources in China's western regions.
该公司表示，该项目将充分利用黄河上游庞大的沙漠地带及水力资源，并充分挖掘中国西部地区水能、风能和太阳能资源的潜力。
Expected to be operational by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), the project will fully take advantage of the massive desert areas and the hydropower resources in the upper reaches of the Yellow River while tapping the potential of hydro, wind and solar resources in the western parts, said the company.
该项目预计将于“十四五”规划期间（2021-2025年）竣工并投入运营。届时，公司将充分利用黄河上游广袤的沙漠区域及丰富的水电资源，同时开发西部地区水能、风能与太阳能潜力。
According to SPIC, the project will take advantage of the massive desert areas and the hydro resources in the upstream of the Yellow River.
据SPIC（中国电力投资集团）介绍，该项目将充分利用黄河上游丰富的水电资源以及广袤的沙漠地带。
It will fully tap the potential of the hydro, wind and solar resources in the western parts while rapidly improving the proportion of clean energy in the country's overall energy mix.
该举措将充分利用西部地区的水能、风能和太阳能资源，同时迅速提升清洁能源在我国整体能源结构中的占比。
Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University, said pumped hydro energy storage as a significant technology and basic equipment to support new power systems will see an increase in its market share as it is becoming cost competitive.
厦门大学中国能源政策研究院院长林伯强表示，抽水蓄能作为一种支持新型电力系统的重要技术和基础装备，随着其成本竞争力的提升，市场占有率将会有所增长。
The nation now sees 52.3 GW of pumped hydro storage under construction or planned and is by far the largest contributor of Asia-Pacific energy companies, which have approximately 71 gigawatts of pumped hydro energy storage projects in the planning or construction stage at the start of 2021, said IHS Markit's power assets tracking service.
据IHS Markit电力资产追踪服务显示，目前该国有52.3吉瓦的抽水蓄能项目在建或规划中，是亚太地区能源公司的最大贡献者。截至2021年初，这些公司共有约71吉瓦的抽水蓄能项目处于规划或建设阶段。
The Ningxia Hui autonomous region will further step up the development of solar, wind, hydro power and hydrogen energy and make clean energy the principal part of energy consumption increase by 2025, an official said.
一位官员表示，宁夏回族自治区将进一步加快太阳能、风能、水能和氢能的发展，确保到2025年，清洁能源成为能源消费增长的主要部分。
Renewable power generation capacity in China is expected to continue climbing in the next decade, with installed renewable energy, including wind, solar and hydro power, to account for more than half of the country's total generation capacity by 2025, a recent report said.
最近的一份报告指出，未来十年内，中国可再生能源发电装机容量将持续增长。至2025年，包括风能、太阳能和水力在内的可再生能源装机占比将超过全国总发电装机容量的一半。
The target of 1.12 billion kW of nonfossil fuel installed capacity by the end of 2021, according to Argus Analytics, will lead to carbon-free generation from nuclear, hydro, wind and solar rising by around 10 percent.
据Argus Analytics预测，到2021年底实现11.2亿千瓦非化石燃料装机容量的目标将促使来自核能、水力、风能和太阳能的无碳发电量提升约10%。
It also aims to boost the installed capacity of nonfossil power generators, including hydro, wind, solar, biomass and nuclear, to reach 1,100 GW this year to help in the transition toward the 2030 carbon peak goal.
该目标还旨在提升非化石能源发电装机容量，涵盖水电、风电、太阳能、生物质能及核能，今年内达到1,100吉瓦，以助力实现2030年碳排放达峰目标。
Official data showed that by the end of 2012, China's clean energy consumption had accounted for 23.4 percent of the total energy consumption, and its accumulative installed capacity of hydro, wind and solar power generation topped the world.
官方数据显示，到2012年底，中国清洁能源消费占能源消费总量的比重已达23.4%，水能、风能和太阳能发电累计装机容量居世界首位。
"With an ambition for building more pumped hydro, wind and solar, State Grid is thinking of providing more flexibility and dispatch capacity to the power system, which are definitely the trends of grid-network upgrades even in a global sense," said Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at Bloomberg New Energy.
国家电网希望通过建设更多的抽水蓄能、风能和太阳能，为电力系统提供更多的灵活性和调度能力。这绝对是电网升级的趋势，即使在全球范围内也是如此，"彭博新能源的电力市场分析师魏汉阳说。
"China Southern Power Grid, on the other hand, has long had the advantage of hydro-power dominance, but now it wants to develop not just hydro but also renewable energy, including wind and solar power," he said.
“另一方面，中国南方电网长期以来在水力发电方面占据优势，但现在他们不仅希望发展水能，还打算开发包括风能和太阳能在内的其他可再生能源。”他说道。
Solar, hydro, wind, hydrogen, nuclear segments set to transform energy mixChina's solar power segment is expected to achieve faster growth, playing an even bigger role in the country's energy industry this year.
太阳能、水能、风能、氢能、核能等板块将改变能源结构中国太阳能领域预计将迎来更快增长，今年将在国家能源行业中发挥更大作用。
Industry insiders believe China will achieve its 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) targets for non-fossil fuel consumption ahead of schedule, riding the advancements in wind, hydro and solar power.
业内认为，中国将借助风能、水能和太阳能的发展，提前完成“十三五”（2016年至2020年）非化石能源消费目标。
"Hydro and renewables have been thriving, with targets mostly on track to be accomplished, and the energy intensity (per GDP unit) target has been achieved very well in 2016-19.
水能和可再生能源发展势头良好，大部分目标有望实现，2016-19年能源强度（单位GDP）目标实现得非常好。
Statistics show that hydro, solar, and wind energy resources account for 47 percent, 28 percent, and 30 percent of the world respectively, which are inversely distributed with population and economy.
数据显示，水能、太阳能和风能资源分别占世界的47%、28%和30%，与人口和经济呈反向分布。
Wind has become China's third-largest power resource after coal and hydro.
风电已经成为中国仅次于煤电和水电的第三大电力资源。
The company saw power generated by clean energy－including hydro, wind and solar－reach 151.19 billion kilowatt-hours during the first half, with the hydropower utilization ratio reaching 99.8 percent and the overall renewable energy utilization ratio reaching 99.87 percent, it said.
Coal accounted for 58 percent of Chinese primary energy mix while non-fossil fuels, including nuclear, hydro, wind and solar, accounted for 15 percent in 2018.
"Hydrogen as an energy storage system is flexible in terms of scale, location and timing," said Li, adding its complements intermittent, as well as seasonal, renewable energy sources, such as hydro, solar, wind and biomass.
Biomass and geothermal witnessed a year-on-year increase of 14 percent and hydro grew by 3.2 percent, it said.
While Sinohydro signed a contract in February to develop the 294-MW Koukoutamba hydro project in northern Guinea, China Gezhouba Group has signed an agreement with Laos' Vase company for Nam Bayu Hydropower Station Project in Vientiane, the country's capital.
According to the National Energy Administration, the renewable power capacity in China, including hydro and biomass as well as solar and wind, rose 12 percent in 2018 to 728 gigawatts compared to a year earlier, with the country still rolling out new projects.
The installed capacity of hydro, wind, photovoltaic and biomass power stations in 2018 reached 352 gW, 184 gW, 174 gW, and 178.1 gW respectively, growing 2.5 percent, 12.4 percent, 34 percent and 20.7 percent year-on-year.
With strong hydro and solar power capacity, the province vows to take advantage of its abundant solar power resources and harness the clean energy to make better use of renewables in the region.
It set a new world record last year, with the province running solely on electricity generated from wind, solar and hydro power stations for nine consecutive days, a trial that is part of China's transition toward a low-carbon future to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and improve its energy consumption mix for better air quality.
"Wind has become China's third-largest power resource after coal and hydro.
Demand for almost all fuels will expand by 2040, with oil up 19 percent, gas up 166 percent, renewables in power up 553 percent, nuclear up 405 percent and hydro up 31 percent, it said.
During the 216 hours, the province ran solely on electricity generated from wind, solar and hydro power stations.
CEE countries, for example, offer massive opportunities in the fields of solar, hydro, nuclear and wind power, Jacobelli said.
These investments have resulted in technological breakthroughs for a variety of renewable resources, including hydro, wind, solar and bioenergy.