The new Exelon would also operate the largest U.S. nuclear fleet with output capacity of 19, 000 megawatts. (Read Japan Will Struggle To Meet Electricity Demand).
Largely because of the power of the unions, America's carmakers find it as hard as their European counterparts do to cut output and capacity to match changed circumstances.
Partly because of the power of the unions, America's car makers find it almost as hard as do their European counterparts to cut output and capacity to match changed circumstances.
When this policy tries to push economic output beyond its capacity, then inflation emerges.
Assuming that output dropped below capacity in the second half of 2001, the economists reckon that inflation in services should be about to turn.
That plant the old Lukens Steel Company facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania had been bought by European steel giant Arcelor Mittal, and already had weapons makers waiting in line for the output its limited capacity could support.
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If terrorists somehow manage, as they have been trying to do in recent weeks, to strike at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure, the desert kingdom's output and spare capacity may be knocked out for a while.
"For almost 10 years, the cartelists carried out the most harmful anti-competitive practices, including price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, capacity and output coordination and exchanges of commercial sensitive information", the commission said.
Whatever the case, the investor intends to create output, to increase productive capacity, and to make money.
While we have the capacity to produce output for these people, it is not profitable to do so.
Even so, many now worry that a series of attacks just might staunch the country's 8m bpd or so of daily output or disable its spare capacity.
Adding downward pressure, Brazilian oil giant Petrobras said its oil output was back at full capacity and would remain so through the end of a five-day energy workers strike that started at midnight Sunday.
Assuming a rated capacity per turbine of 5 MW, and a capacity factor (actual output) of 30%, we have 1.5 MW for each.
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Despite signs of a bottoming, industrial output is at 70% of capacity, the lowest level in two decades and ten percentage points below its 36-year average.
That is why, argues Vera de Ladoucette of CERA, an energy consultancy, ministers essentially blessed efforts by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (the only cartel countries with any spare capacity) to raise output.
But much of that new output, and most of the reserve capacity, is in the form of heavier oils that are costlier to refine and for which there is less thirst.
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In the past, they maintained a large buffer of spare capacity that allowed them to boost output quickly to cool prices.
Manufacturing output was unchanged in May but the rate of capacity utilization across industries dropped 0.2%.
We also thought they would probably cut or leave unchanged their estimate of spare capacity in the economy (the "output gap") - again, on the basis of their calculations in March.
China Steel also has new capacity coming on stream later this year with output rising up to 40%.
Some mills, including one of Iskander Khan's, have closed, reducing the output of Pakistan's sugar sector to half its capacity.
An auction by PJM Interconnection that measures forward supply of electricity generation continued to paint an upbeat assessment of utility suppliers, who it said continue to add generating capacity and make investments to enhance existing power output.
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"Although inflation seemed likely to remain above the 2 percent target over the next two years, the degree of slack in the economy, and the likely positive response of supply capacity to increased demand, meant that higher output growth would not necessarily lead to any material additional inflationary pressure, " those backing another stimulus argued, according to the minutes.
The OBR estimates the economy's spare capacity is just 2.5% of potential output.
And to ensure smart grids enable the low-carbon future, regulated utilities must be given output-based incentives that fairly reward them for delivering future capacity to support renewables and the electrification of the heating and transport sectors.
Today China has excess steelmaking capacity of 120m tonnes, or a third of its output.
The weakness in output growth at home will open up a growing margin of spare capacity that will over time bear down on inflation.
The OBR is now a bit gloomier about the longer-term capacity of the economy, meaning they think our potential output will be about 1.3% of GDP smaller than previously thought by 2017.
Installed wind-generating capacity was up 20% to 47 gigawatts, again measured by peak output.
China may now have 45 percent of global capacity for smelting aluminum, but it also consumes 40 percent of global output.
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