Solution: small power plants built quickly and rented out to federal power authorities.
He said the island had not been left short of power, as it has its own small power station.
The next wave is small power projects in the Pearl River Delta region.
When both cables are operational, the interconnector can carry 450 MW of power which is the equivalent generation of a small power station.
Three new small power stations should be working by the summer, but not until 2003 will enough new capacity have been added to the system to eliminate the risk.
The official data on electricity production does not capture the plethora of small power stations those churning out less than 500 kilowatts that have sprung up across China in recent years.
Unlike traditional "centralized" systems, distributed energy relies on small power-generating technologies like solar panels or ultra-efficient natural-gas turbines built near the point of energy consumption to supplement or displace grid-distributed electricity.
You wouldn't immediately think of the ear's cochlea as an energy source, but MIT knows that every mammal effectively has a pair of very small power plants because of the ionized environment.
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The silver cylinder at the top is actually a small power generating device that converts micro-vibrations into usable energy, so stick one of these on, say, a ventilation duct and you should just about get enough juice to power a calculator or even an LED.
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But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
IR You assert that central power stations would lose out to small local power producers in a free market without subsidies.
The biggest of these data factories are packed with 400, 000 servers and consume 250 megawatts of power, half the output of a small nuclear power plant.
Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.
Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.
Despite this rule of thumb, there is a burgeoning movement to bring small-wind power to cities as well.
The newly subsidized larger models can help power small businesses, farms and schools.
Its nickel metal hydride battery provides small bursts of power in stop-and-go traffic.
In 2009, there were more than 400 small solar-power firms in the New York region, providing an estimated 10, 000 jobs.
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According to the EPA, the small engines that power leaf blowers will account for 18 percent of smog-forming emissions by 2020, unless they are regulated.
It is already possible to power small electronic devices, such as wireless sensors installed in buildings and industrial machinery, using a dedicated microwave transmitter nearby.
Some Republicans have also suggested giving small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as big companies and labor unions do.
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The four-country replacement project has strong Latvian support, but Poland is lukewarm and Estonia is considering a small nuclear-power plant of its own if the joint one falls through.
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It was a "scandal" that such a small percentage of power is generated from renewable sources and there must be a "step change" in energy efficiency improvements to homes, he added.
There seems to have been a sequence of technical faults (reportedly, a problematic transformer, false alarms, failed signals and an apparent power surge) at about the same time in a small area of the power grid serving London.
It runs on battery power for about 40 miles, after which a small gasoline engine kicks in to power an electric motor that extends the EV range for up to 300 miles.
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Under Babar's tutelage the Punjab government is installing several small hydro and solar power plants.
This will enable any energy producer, large or small, to sell power to anyone.
The team has plans for it to charge batteries or power other small devices.
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