With old coal power stations being closed down Britain needs new energy plants - and wind farms, gas and nuclear power stations are seen as the answers.
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But generators of solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy must have their plants operating by the end of 2007 to get their tax rewards.
Its U.S. business, PPM Energy, operates cogeneration power plants and wind farms .
Already, the world's 700-odd waste-to-energy plants generate more power than all its wind turbines and solar panels put together.
In some part of the country such as Texas, wind energy is now competitive with natural gas-fired power plants, the report said.
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Removing those plants and relying instead on wind, solar and energy efficiency is unproven.
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The production of modern wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants are extremely energy-intensive enterprises, and are by and large powered by the burning of fossil fuels.
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Jobs for engineers and construction crews to create wind farms and solar plants that are going to double the renewable energy we can generate in this country.
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The need to engineer energy storage equipment that could work well with solar or wind power plants has prompted many private and public investments in battery and other storage technologies.
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While cheap natural gas can be a threat to solar and wind energy development utilities might prefer to build more natural gas power plants that can deliver electricity around the clock natural gas also could play a complementary role.
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We have 191 million buildings in the EU. The mission now is to convert the entire building stock of Europe to partial green power plants that can collect solar energy on the roofs, wind energy off the sides of the building, geothermal energy from the ground below the building, biomass energy from the conversion of garbage in the building, etc.
The idea is to speed up renewable energy projects by preventing mining claims from sidetracking solar power plants and wind farms.
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It is developing giant off-shore wind turbines, biomass power plants (including projects in Florida and Washington with Duke Energy), and, with its Ausra acquisition, solar thermal power plants.
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Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
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