Wind and solar as a source of renewable energy is a goal that most electric-generating companies, including General Electric (GE), Duke Energy (DUK), and Northwestern Energy (NEW), are hotly pursuing.

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In addition, Japan has lost a substantial fraction of their electric-power generating capacity.

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In that role he oversaw the privatisation of Britain's electricity industry as energy minister in the Conservative government and approved Enron's bid for permission to build one of the first gas-fired electric generating plants in Britain.

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More than 200 spectators crammed into the Old Sun - which is popular in local running circles - generating an electric atmosphere.

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Micro-grids are independent controllable and defined systems including electric generating and consuming assets that can be connected to or disconnected from the larger power grid, and they are becoming more popular.

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Nearly 2, 500 megawatts of electric generating capacity tripped offline, including two nuclear reactors in Virginia, after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake rocked vast swaths of the eastern United States on Tuesday.

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Big mistake No. 1: Under the 1996 deregulation measure, investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric were required to sell most of their power generating plants to other private companies, and to become buyers of wholesale electric power.

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