Though big power plants might still be built, they'll run on numerous small reactors.
There are no big power plants using it, just a handful of small demonstration projects.
There simply aren't many players these days that put up big power numbers without striking out often.
Similarly, five big power-generation firms were split out of a single company in 2002 to foster competition.
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There are some big power lines, but otherwise it looks just like any factory by a lake.
Given this me-too strategy, would Mr van de Vijver contemplate the purchase of a big power company?
And on the immigration issue, Stern is equally isolated from the other big power brokers in the labor movement.
Small states can become big power brokers and television stations can ring up millions in ad sales to candidates.
That makes it the only big power with friendly ties to both Koreas.
It isn't yet clear whether 10, 000 motes can handle a lot of traffic without big power consumption and backlog problems.
NATO, he has an acute sense of Turkey's importance as a big power in a dangerous part of the globe.
The big power company, Niagara Mohawk, closed down all these little generating plants in the 1960s because they were supposedly inefficient.
Planning will be streamlined and it will be harder for local residents to object to big power stations (nuclear or otherwise).
The small, local combined-heat-and-power stations and wind turbines do receive subsidies in order to survive in competition with the big power stations.
Big power marketer Constellation New Energy has a demand-response program under way.
More than half of the installations in the second quarter, though, were from big power plants built to supply electricity to utilities.
Despite recent improvements, education and infrastructure still lag behind China's or South Korea's (as a big power cut this week reminded Brazilians).
This moment is a critical test for the world's most important big power relationship, one which may have repercussions for years to come.
The market as a whole is dominated by a relatively small number of big power companies and investment banks, raising worries about asymmetry of information.
Germany's four big power producers have undertaken to post weekly production figures on the website of a second carbon-trading exchange, the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig.
Plus, there are so many blogs advocating early retirement in the form of extremely low cost lifestyles, or quitting your big power job to become something touchy-feely, etc.
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Regardless of whether or not solar ever becomes a big power player, it will certainly play an important role for a growing number of people who have few other options.
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Representatives from a big power company, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Marine Corps and the Department of Energy (DOE) were asked what innovations are on the way.
Indeed, the economics are so tricky that other countries have resorted to straight subsidies (as in America) or else to complicated long-term financing deals involving big power-users (as in Finland, which is building Europe's first new nuclear plant for over a decade).
The Blythe Solar Power Project is the largest of nine big solar power plants licensed over the past nine months by the California Energy Commission, and it comes with a price tag to match.
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In fact, this is again U.S. government, big-power diplomacy on behalf of the corporate elites.
To that end, Shell two years ago bought half of Intergen, a big independent power producer.
The synthesizer to the bottom, the Daltrey scream and big Townshend power chords to the finish.
It is also a worry for many Venezuelans, who would rather their country avoid big-power politics.
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