This is more efficient, and therefore greener, than burning gas to generate electricity in a power plant and then transmitting it through the grid.

这相比在发电厂燃烧煤气以产生电，然后通过输电网传输更为高效和环保。

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The enormous pressure inside the gas pipeline grid that supplies UK homes is set to be harnessed to generate clean electricity.

在英国，天然气管道输送网络为千家万户提供能源。 而在管道内存在着巨大的压力，这些压力即将被用来生产清洁电能。

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Jug kettles are fast and convenient, but their fuel - electricity from the national grid - produces almost three times more greenhouse gas for each unit of heat than burning gas in the home does.

电热水壶烧水快而且方便，不过它们的燃料——来自全国电网的电——产生每单位热量所排放的温室气体是自己在家烧煤气的3倍。

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"Someone could attack the industrial control systems that control all the valves, all the distribution systems, and are used to turn on and off various aspects involved with energy and the electrical power grid and oil and gas distribution networks,".

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The pattern partly reflects access to gas heating, with much of northern Scotland off the gas grid.

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It is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK to feed biogas directly into the national gas grid.

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Four million households in the UK are not connected to the mains gas grid and people in this situation generally have very little choice in their source of heating fuel.

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