So they did for the hydro-power companies, which were within days of enforced electricity rationing.
His grandfather installed hydro-power in the 1930s, providing lights for the house as well as powering farm machinery including the milking machine.
The commission has long run the St Lawrence hydro-power project at Cornwall, Ontario, and regulated the river flow without dispute or political interference.
Energy-efficiency and fuel-switching, for example, accounted for 40% of the projects started last year, while biomass, wind- and hydro-power made up another 24%.
Brazil needs it to help feed its rivers and generate hydro-power.
Eden Valley initiatives include a campaign to get people to buy locally, moves to supply fast broadband services to rural areas and a hydro-power scheme for the River Eden.
But their chief concern at the moment is the security of a Chinese construction firm which is building a hydro-power project on the Indus river in the Dubair area of Kohistan.
However, this region needs integrated hydro-power development and conservation planning so that the trade-offs between energy production and other ecosystem services, particularly those vital for the survival of the people that depend on them, are better understood before such dams are developed.
Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
China produces merely 1 percent of its electricity from non-hydro renewable power, while the United States produces 5 percent of its electricity from non-hydro renewable power.
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And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
In the long-term China is also investing heavily in hydro-electrical power and another renewable energies.
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.
The government has proposed a mix of conservation, natural gas and non-hydro renewables to replace Barseback's power. (Large-scale hydro development was ruled out in the 1970s for environmental reasons.) None meets Sydkraft's criteria.
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.
More than 20 years on from Chernobyl, nuclear provides 6.5% of the world's energy--three times as much as hydro 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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