Tanaka suggested that for starters the world needs each year to build 90 utility-scale concentrated solar plants, 17, 000 windmills, two Three Gorges Dams, and 18 nuclear plants.
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This dynamic is also making things comparatively more difficult to build big, utility-scale solar power projects.
What would've been a much better idea is to build a web configuration utility and give people the choice to configure it from their computer.
Big companies have the lawyers and the money to build ring fences of utility and design patents around their products so only the largest and best-financed competitors can even think of entering their markets, he said.
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The firm has built a 40 kilowatt demonstration plant and is partnering with AES, a utility, to build a 1-2MW system.
Instead, Scaglia has chosen to collaborate with AEM, the recently privatized Milanese electrical utility, to build a home- base network alongside of AEM cables in and around Italy's richest city, Milan, which accounts for 30% of the country's telecom spending.
The three other finalists for that remaining money are NRG Energy, which is hoping to build two reactors in Texas, the South Carolina utility SCANA, and Constellation Energy which is hoping to build a reactor in Maryland.
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With financial backing from a Dallas utility, he would build the first fiber link between McAllen and Corpus Christi, Tex.
But they are reinvesting the money in more and better manufacturing facilities, which further adds to the worldwide capacity to build, say, sport-utility vehicles.
Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.
With financial backing from a Dallas utility, he would build the first fiber link between McAllen and Corpus Christi: Long-distance companies wanted an alternative to their weather- plagued microwave links.
Workers assembling the Mercedes M-class in Vance, Alabama, build only 20% of the sport utility vehicle.
What all really wanted, however, is merchants and other brokering partners to build applications for the system, increasing its utility.
It turned out to be more of a utility than anything else, a utility that people can use to build products on top of and use to form social groups and it changes it every time they use it.
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In turn, our audience can build connections and relationships with our experts through the utility of following, sharing and commenting.
Ever since, utility companies have been virtually lining up to build power lines in the heavily congested "national interest" zones.
American Electric Power (AEP) chose to delay its plans to build a wind farm in Indiana when the heavily indebted utility found its cost of capital had soared because of turmoil in the corporate-bond market.
Last August, when the head of America's largest nuclear utility said that this was not the time to build new nuclear plants, the main reason he gave was not political opposition or the threat of cost overruns, but the low price of natural gas.
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The government and the utility company, Chubu Electric, had been trying to build this plant, against local opposition, for 37 years.
Over 17 years it has built seven plants (five others are in construction) nationwide and has become quite nimble at navigating the permit process. (It's easier to get approvals if you're a private company than if you're a public utility.) In 2004 LS filed a proposal to build a 1, 600-megawatt, supercritical pulverized-coal plant in White Pine.
Nissan is hiring an additional 400 people over the next two years to make its Murano sports utility vehicle in Mississippi, while Honda is adding 50 new jobs in Ohio where it will build its new hybrid Accord sedan car.
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