That water is then released through tunnels to generate hydro electric power at times when consumers need it.
Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD) has organised eight mobile hot food outlets in Argyll and Arran, while 18 large generators and 50 smaller sets have been installed in the areas.
And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
Israel has expressed interest in investing in such unobjectionable concerns as agriculture and hydro-electric power.
At the time, Brazil was 93% dependent on hydro-electric power and a drought had left many reservoirs very low.
It is then released through a number of turbines to generate electricity in the same way as hydro-electric power plants work.
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The first hydro-electric power station was set up in Mysore in 1902.
Few other countries that depend heavily on hydro-electric power, which in turn depends on unpredictable rainfall, have so far dared to liberalise.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (at 9.15am) has a session on the pros and cons of a hydro-electric power barrage across the River Severn.
Two huge hydro-electric power schemes, on Lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique and in the Lesotho mountains, which will zap electricity across the region, are also being built.
Environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would like to see a switch to renewable and clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
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Access to Bachelor Lake has not been a problem as highway 113 leads to the mine uninterrupted and the area is also electrically sound with hydro-electric power lines along the way.
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And the groups of crofters and villagers who have bought them on a community basis have eagerly set about all sorts of enterprises, ranging from hydro-electric power schemes to holiday cottages.
This week a large number of Americans determined to take such preventive action now are convening in Niagara Falls, New York - a community that knows something about hydro-electric power and its importance for the country.
Now, rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd has launched a project to revive small-scale hydro-electric power production in rural Denbighshire, launching feasibility studies for using water power on the Dee at Llangollen, and on the Alyn at Llandegla and Loggerheads.
As a consequence data centers are using an increasingly large amount of power both to run equipment and to keep the operating temperature of that equipment at appropriate levels (this has led to building many newer data centers next to hydro-electric and other inexpensive power sources as well as in colder climates).
Apart from an ancient aluminium complex, Montenegro's main industrial hope lies on the drawing-board: a chain of hydro-electric plants that could supply power to Albania and Greece and across the Adriatic to Italy.
There is not enough of it in the reservoirs banking the three hydro-electric dams that supply Kabul with power.
Therefore there is no wonder the numerous hydro-electric projects in India cannot supply their intended power for the country.
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It recognized that Vermont utilities import large quantities of electricity from Quebec and the provincial utility Hydro-Quebec is a major supplier of Vermont electric power.
The government has also begun to fear that freer prices mean higher prices, and that new power stations will be unable to compete with old hydro-electric plants, whose initial costs have long been written off.
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