The need to build pipelines from gas fields to utilities and the requirement to build networks of charging stations on highways and in major cities will require a whole new massive infrastructure effort, which in turn will need the services of construction workers, engineers and other assorted building folk.
For the moment, facilities that gasify coal to make it cleaner are not widely in operation, and in spite of the many permits being sought by utilities to build nuclear plants (if they wish to do so), no one has come forth with a proposal to actually build one.
And the utilities failed to build up expertise in certain areas, such as robotics.
On nuclear power, Cheney also said he wants to give utilities incentives to build more nuclear plants, which would force the nation to deal with the problem of nuclear waste.
Faced with rising demand for electricity, utilities can either build more power plants and power lines--highly expensive and controversial projects--or they can make better use of the electricity they've got.
Many utilities would prefer to build and profit from their own renewable generation instead of having to import it from afar.
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Several telephone companies and electric utilities formed units to build new cable systems, while entrepreneurs clamored to get in on the action.
The bill proves that nuclear power is too risky and expensive for private capital markets, says the Tribune, so utilities that want to build plants and developers who want the electricity are trying to shuffle the cost onto ratepayers.
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With the fervor of a convert, he's urging utilities across the country to build data-delivery systems on their power grids.
That looks expensive but is probably a good deal less than U.S. utilities will be spending to build new nuclear plants.
Put simply, utilities are being asked to build smart grids in order to reduce demand for energy while long-standing industry rules still reward them for supplying more.
Utilities drew up plans to build dozens of coal-fired plants.
Developers who build power plants to sell power to utilities also might be willing to pay a higher price for more efficient solar panels, which allow them to construct projects with less land.
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Currently, U.S. utilities are seeking permission to build about a dozen of the AP1000 reactors, far more than any other reactor type in the U.S. Nearly a dozen projects that had contemplated using designs developed by competing firms, such as General Electric Co.
Green may be in vogue, but that doesn't mean utilities want the government forcing them to build windmills.
Toshiba said it plans to build the business as a stand-alone platform providing utilities pursuing the smart grid opportunity.
Regulated utilities are granted the power of eminent domain to build and maintain their infrastructure, but in return must offer service to all residents.
Many factory owners who couldn't afford to build new buildings because of the high cost of land and limited access to utilities converted hundreds of residential and other buildings into makeshift garment factories to keep up with the demand from Western retailers, labor groups say.
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In fact, you say, electric utilities are prepared to contract for this power even before you make the loan to build the windmills or solar generators.
Not all utilities are hostile to the plants, and many are jockeying to be the ones that build CHP plants for their clients.
The preferred mode in Europe is to build not a few hugely expensive incineration behemoths but a larger number of smaller, community-based utilities that burn trash to provide electricity and heat through underground conduits.
Utilities refuse to make bigger investments because power plants with CCS would be much more expensive to build and run than the ordinary sort.
Exelon has generating plants and regulated utilities that it would surely like to protect from additional capacity, yet it also is trying to build a transmission company.
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