Willett Kempton has a more exotic approach: turn cars into rolling power stations that can provide clean energy when utilities need it most.
China has rolling power blackouts that affect production and delivery.
Companies that escaped damage from the earthquake and ensuing tsunamihave to cope with rolling power outages and disruptions to supplies of water, raw materials and transportation, suggesting the road to reconstruction could be long and halting.
India is starved for electricity: in Chennai, the South Indian megacity where the launch occurred, rolling blackouts cut the power for two hours each day.
Greenpeace's Rolling Sunlight mobile solar power array has been touring the streets of the Rockaways this week, enabling residents to charge their phones and other devices.
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Tokyo Electric Power began imposing rolling blackouts at 5:00 p.m. on Monday in Japan, darkening 330, 000 households in Yokohama, Kawasaki and elsewhere in the Kanto region.
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Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.
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"As I was looking at the box-office numbers rolling in that weekend, the power of local content really hit me, " says Mr. Panitch.
Since Monday the company has been operating rolling blackouts to deal with substantial power shortages after the Kanto-Tohoku earthquake on March 11 crippled the Fukushima plant.
In a flurry of announcements, Japanese manufacturers including Toshiba and NEC said they'd soon be rolling out miniature fuel cells to power mobile phones, music players and laptops.
Over the next year or two, offshore wind power pioneers will begin rolling out a fleet of 5 to 8 megawatt wind turbines for the coming wave of offshore developments.
NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.
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The sounds -- of trailers full of debris rolling by, or the buzz of power tools -- were reminders that, for some, life was moving on.
Such laws also slow the construction of power plants, contributing to the rolling blackouts that crippled South Africa in 2008.
But FERC also soiled the proverbial carpet by blaming the state in part for the crisis that led to economic calamity and rolling blackouts in areas served by its main power supplier.
Power-plant disruptions continue to cause rolling blackouts that cut electricity to data centers throughout the country in three-hour increments.
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Power is so scarce that there are rolling blackouts in nearly every city.
Meanwhile, Ford is rolling out a more fuel-efficient lineup of power trains for its 2011 F-150, including a 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine and a new six-speed transmission.
But once the Vanquish is rolling and the road opens up, the sheer, horsey power of the thing is a joy.
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Dave Meredith points out that Virgin has improved its rolling stock, and praises the "laptop and mobile phone power points, onboard radio stations, and clean, comfy seating".
An area of little doubt: The next few weeks will bring more difficulties to areas untouched by the earthquake and tsunami as the electric utility Tepco institutes rolling blackouts in the Kanto region around Tokyo to cope with a shortage of power.
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Rolling back coal-related rules and regulations while asking natural gas-and-nuclear-fired power plants to meet stricter standards is not realistic.
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Seven years ago, with California sweating through rolling electricity blackouts, the stock market worked up an appetite for outfits selling new ways of generating power.
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