Gas has become so cheap that it can be substituted for coal as an electricity-generating fuel.
The country risks an electricity shortage in 2009 unless it finds new sources of gas.
The inquiry previously heard how Mr Lennon died after the vehicle crashed into an electricity pole.
Meanwhile, iBamboo launched an electricity-free iPhone speaker made from a single piece of bamboo.
One employee said she believed the blast came from an electricity substation located in the building.
Argyll and Bute Council said on Thursday that every community in Kintyre now had an electricity supply.
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The cheapest way to prevent an electricity crunch is to allow new fossil-fuel stations to be built.
The heat released by the molten salt is used to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
The basic idea is, is that we're still using an electricity grid that dates back 100, 150 years ago.
In this case, 90 metres of superconducting cable have been installed at an electricity substation owned by Copenhagen Energy.
An electricity company has said swans could be to blame for a number of power cuts in a Cambridgeshire village.
He claimed he heard moans and screams, then followed a path and saw the suspects standing beside an electricity pillar.
It will also be able to power cars indirectly, as an electricity source for electric vehicles starting to arrive in showrooms.
Vandals who broke into an electricity substation in north Belfast left 6, 000 properties without power, Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has said.
Vandals who set fire to an electricity substation in Carrickfergus on Friday night could have been killed, Northern Ireland Electricity has said.
Only in places unconnected to an electricity grid, such as much of rural Africa and rural Asia, are solar cells truly commercially viable.
Solar thermal projects deploy fields of mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun on liquid-filled boilers to create steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.
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This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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The heated oil creates steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.
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The A1 was closed between junction 17 at Haddon and the A47 at Wansford as engineers worked to repair an electricity cable spanning the road.
"It felt like I was grabbing an electricity pylon, " he said.
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The ESB is an electricity provider in the Republic of Ireland.
This turned out to be a loan to Enron dressed up as an electricity contract, which had the effect of hiding the debt from Enron's investors.
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But just because an electricity company's customers can pay their bills online, it does not necessarily follow that the company's critical control systems are vulnerable to attack.
Just last month Altra launched an electricity-trading site, hoping to grab a share of an electronic market now dominated by the Powermatch exchange operated by Bloomberg Financial Markets.
Enersis ( ENI - news - people ) (ENI, 21) is an electricity generator and distributor based in Chile but reaching into Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
As solar panel prices have plunged, developers like Solar Millennium have abandoned solar thermal technology, which uses huge mirror arrays to heat water to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
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The impending crunch for San Paolo ought to make the treasury think afresh, since the government wants to sell off the telecommunications group Stet, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Enel, an electricity company.
Several studies find, for instance, that when an electricity generator can choose between the output of many nearby coalmines that produce coal of a particular quality, it tends to buy its coal on an open market.
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