The Ivanpah solar tower, formally known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is the largest solar thermal power facility currently under construction.
The power facility, which would operate off the coast of Massachusetts and deliver electricity to the residents of Nantucket Sound, must still resolve some legal issues.
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Energy Management, a 28-year-old energy company based in New England, plans to build a 468-megawatt wind power facility off the coast of Massachusetts: the Cape Wind project.
Five years ago, a Cuban airforce defector in a MIG-29 fighter aircraft -- flying undetected until outside Key West, Florida -- confirmed that he had trained to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power facility in South Florida.
What if we were to build a solar array large enough to power the entire facility using these solar and land consumption numbers?
If the solar farm were to be able to supply all the power of the facility it would need to be 24.4 times larger.
Edgeley Green Power were granted planning permission to construct the facility near the existing Shoreham Power Station on Tuesday evening.
More than 20 elderly residents at an apartment home in Indianapolis were displaced when the facility lost power due to a downed tree.
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Well, in a world where dealing with data is becoming more and more important, our facility with power numbers to break down the lesser numbers has become paramount.
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Maxim (MXIM): The chip maker said there has been no damage to its partner facility, Seiko Epson, from the earthquake, but that a power outage has affected production at the facility, in Sakata, Japan.
That means, of course, that more of the power being delivered to the facility is being used in computing, less to keep the lights on and the air cool.
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British officials chose photo opportunities for Mr Miliband that would highlight China's importance as a responsible world power, at a training facility near Beijing for UN peacekeepers, and a factory making solar panels.
Hunterston was ear-marked as a site for a potential coal-fired carbon capture and storage (CCS) power station to replace the current facility.
In October, the solar-tower developers signed a power purchase agreement for the first La Paz facility.
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Webster notes that the Sakata region has been hit with a power outage that has affected the Seiko Epson facility.
The December election of Mr. Abe, however, has bred new life into Japan's nuclear-power program and the prospects for the Rokkasho facility, said government and industry officials.
For example, a camp near Dover, Tennessee is within easy striking distance of Fort Campbell (home of the 101st Airborne), TVA dams and power plants and an ammunition up-load facility.
Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.
The 1, 260 megawatt facility is also expected to be generating power by the end of the decade.
It hopes SOEC will become a managed tidal energy test facility, generating 20MW - enough to power 8, 000 homes.
The third generating facility will be owned by Korea Electric Power Corp.
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) says the number of reported attacks is up and attackers have been targeting companies with access to the country's power grid, water filtration facilities and a nuclear facility.
The facility is capable of producing 15 MW of power, enough to cover about 30% of Nellis requirements.
Though it appears to all intents and purposes like a state-of-the-art power station, FutureGen is actually a huge hydrogen production facility in disguise.
The facility, run by renewable energy firm Farm Power, will be among the last to qualify for higher rate government subsidies for generating power.
That means that a 500, 000 sq ft facility would require 181 million sq ft of power generation or, converted to a ratio, each data center sq ft would require 362 sq ft of land.
Lynch said his downtown facility now has a generator system robust enough to power the entire building for three weeks, including the air conditioning.
Among other things, the intense weather caused widespread power outages, taking down parts of the Amazon Web Services facility in northern Virginia in the process.
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Disk-drive maker Western Digital said that production had resumed on its hard drives on November 30, after the facility was pumped dry of flood water, the power was restored and damaged inventories assessed.
Wind power firm, Ralls Corporation, was banned from building a facility in Oregon because of their chosen location near a U.S. Naval base.
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