If we had listened to them, this hydropower station would never have been built.

当初要是依了他们的主张，今天就不可能有这个水电站。

Backup power could also be provided by linking wind farms with a solar cell, with conventional or pumped-storage hydropower, or with efficient natural-gas-burning turbines.

将风力发电厂与太阳能电池、常规或抽水蓄能的水电或高效的天然气涡轮机连接起来，也可以提供备用电力。

One scheme is hydropower.

其中一个计划就是水力发电。

Even hydropower has its own problems.

水电也有它自身的问题。

Meanwhile, on land, the threat comes from hydropower.

同时，陆地上的主要威胁来自于水力发电。

If we do it ourselves, only cheap energy from hydropower will do.

如果靠自力更生，只有靠水电站带来的廉价能源了。

But hydropower companies-it is fair to say they are not happy with me.

但是水力发电公司，老实说它们对我很不高兴。

The implication of the hydropower station is under fierce public debate.

相关的水电站也卷入了激烈的公开辩论。

The upstream countries want to develop their enormous hydropower potential.

上游国家想开发其巨大的水利发电潜力。

In South-East Asia, China's plan to double hydropower by 2010 is causing concern.

中国计划在2010年前建立多于目前一倍的水电站，这在东南亚引起了强烈关注。

But it may eventually be supplied from hydropower DAMS on the nearby Namtha River.

但是或许最终将会使用来自老挝南塔河水电站的供电。

Hydropower plants in Hunan province are producing less that a third of their capacity.

湖南省的水力发电场发电不足容量的三分之一。

In some cases, hydropower is growing as a backup power supply for wind and solar power.

在某些地区，水电项目是作为风力发电和太阳能发电项目的后备手段。

Some countries must rent costly diesel generators to boost hydropower in years of drought.

在干旱的年份里，一些国家必须租用耗费高昂的柴油发电机来补充水电。

Hydropower produces about 15% of the world's electricity, compared with 3% for other renewables.

水电产能约占全球总电力的15%，其他可再生能源占3%。

Africa has only developed about 8% of its hydropower potential, according to the commission.

该委员会称，非洲仅开发了水电可开发量的8%左右。

But its hydropower capacity at the end of last year stood at 213.4 gigawatts, the highest in the world.

但在去年年底，其水电装机总容量达到213.4万千瓦，据世界第一。