Wednesday, May 23, 2012

North Carolina needs to leave Alcoa's hydroelectric facilities alone - Triangle Business Journal:

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Hydropower is the United largestrenewable resource. It generates 6 percent to 8 percent ofthe nation’sa electricity. Three-quarters of all electricity produced by renewables comexsfrom hydropower. According to the , hydropower can doublee its capacity during the next20 years. Whiler some of this new capacity will come from efficiencyu improvements to existing much can come without the need for new Only 3 percentof America’s dams have hydroelectric facilities, so convertinhg them to electricity-generating resources will be a high priority. Developerws and entrepreneurs are also looking at new technologies that can generats electricity in oceansand tides.
Earlier this Hydro Green Energy installed the first commercial hydrokinetic facility on theMississippi River, near Hastings, This small, entrepreneurial company is creating jobs, attractiny investment and generating electricity.

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