The majority of usable reservoirs are located in remote, scenic wilderness areas where construction of plants, access roads, power lines and other infrastructure is perceived as an unwelcome intrusion on nature.
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But another 5 billion gallons is set to come online by the end of the decade, judging by the planned construction of plants, according to Aaron Brady, a biofuels expert at Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
Such laws also slow the construction of power plants, contributing to the rolling blackouts that crippled South Africa in 2008.
Proponents of nuclear power say construction of new plants would likely require the extension of a federal loan guarantee program, also created by the 2005 energy act, that's set to expire in 2009.
In 2002, the U.S. launched its Nuclear Power 2010 program, an initiative by the government and the private sector to encourage the construction of more plants, though that effort has been slowed somewhat by regulatory issues.
"In the long term, certainly anything that the federal government can do to expedite the creation and ... construction of power plants, of transmission lines will improve the situation, " said Tim Gallagher, NERC manager for technical services.
In fact, eight of the 10 largest working solar power plants finished construction in 2012.
Five of the seven plants under construction will also use the captured CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
Quite a few interests made considerable profits by the construction of nuclear power plants over the last 40 years.
Davis said California has 10 power plants under construction and another five have been approved since he became governor.
Back in 2008, Obama said he favored a cap-and-trade system so severe it would effectively prohibit the construction of new coal plants.
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George Bush wants to expand nuclear power, and has called for the construction of new nuclear plants in America, so the stakes are high.
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The report said that instead of building houses immediately the agencies would have been better off training local people in construction and establishing manufacturing plants.
Within a year, he aims to open plants under construction in Singapore and Malaysia to make oilfield tools, and intends to expand the truck-body business into China.
They recently declared it would end all nuclear power in the next two decades, but then declared it is allowing two new nuclear plants under construction to be completed.
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By the same token the thirty-year hiatus in construction of new nuclear plants following Three Mile Island limited another important component of our energy mix and reduced our current options.
Over the past three decades, they came in waves, working long hours in sweatshops, construction sites and assembly plants, enduring poor working conditions in order to save a little cash to remit home.
Last week, Reuters reported that an Italian court had filed charges against Global Solar Fund over alleged fraud committed by some of its portfolio companies related to subsidies received for the construction of solar power plants.
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For First Solar, the acquisition of Solar Chile gives the Arizona-based photovoltaic panel manufacturer and developer a big pipeline of projects to keep its factories humming while collecting development and operation fees from the construction of solar power plants.
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China currently has 13 nuclear power stations in operation, while another 27 plants are under construction.
"Our concern is that this technology is used to justify the construction of more coal power plants, " says Tobias Munchmeyer.
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That will result in the closing of a cadre of coal plants and the construction of numerous combined-cycle natural gas facilities.
The mix includes a lot of wind and geothermal, but solar could start to overtake others because many solar power plants are under construction now.
European automakers have more than a dozen plants worth of excess factory capacity, with new plants still under construction in Central Europe and more being built in Russia.
It should stimulate a boom in construction of gas-fired plants, given the huge new supplies of shale gas unlocked by the combination of deep horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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The proportion of LNG in the hands of such middlemen will rise from 12% to 25% when all the plants now under construction start running, says Michael Stoppard of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy.
If the people in the Great Plains are going to be subsidised to do something, does it not make more sense to subsidise jobs in the construction and assembly of power plants and the generation of clean power rather than an unhelpful distortion in the world's agricultural markets?
The government will also introduce an Emissions Performance Standard, designed to prevent the construction of new, dirty coal plants.
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