He bowed to labour and environmental activists last summer by cancelling the privatisation of Hydro One, which operates one of North America's biggest transmission grids.

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For example, the Northeast Mutual Assistance group ranges from Hydro One in Ontario, to Hydro-Quebec and the eastern Canadian utilities, and down throughout New England to Rhode Island.

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Nobody can deny that hydro is one of the cheapest, cleanest, most efficient ways of producing electricity.

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One critically important element used today is hydro storage capacity in neighboring Norway (which is supplied by 99% hydro) and Sweden (over 50% hydro), supported by robust interconnection transmission lines.

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And, Iceland itself admits is still has only tapped one fifth of the country's viable hydro and geothermal potential.

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One component of this project is development of a Hydro-meteorological data sharing information system called PIFMIS. Main theme of PIFMIS aka knowledge platform is Hydro-meteorological data entry, analysis, and display of flood related information in a user-friendly way.

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