Gas has become so cheap that it can be substituted for coal as an electricity-generating fuel.
The heat released by the molten salt is used to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
The device will have enough electricity-generating oomph to fully juice up a depleted iPhone 4S or similar smart phone between 10 and 14 times.
It wants to add electricity-generating capacity, lest China's breakneck growth be impeded.
More precisely, Louis Michaud is seeking to create a tornado-like vortex inside a tower to produce winds that would drive electricity-generating turbines.
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Some three-quarters of all new electricity-generating capacity in America now uses gas.
For investors to view the electricity-generating business with enthusiasm, they must be able to find out what the real price of electricity is.
That is one reason why renewables account for just 3% of British electricity-generating capacity, compared with 28% in Germany and 16% in Spain.
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He thinks it might be used to cut the cost of hooking villages up to local electricity-generating plants, or to subsidise the prices charged.
Solar thermal projects deploy fields of mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun on liquid-filled boilers to create steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.
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The heated oil creates steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.
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Battersea power station, for instance, a moderately interesting electricity-generating station built between the 1930s and 1950s, has blighted 16 hectares of riverbank opposite Chelsea for three decades.
Why not simply convert coal-fired electricity-generating plants to natural gas?
As solar panel prices have plunged, developers like Solar Millennium have abandoned solar thermal technology, which uses huge mirror arrays to heat water to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
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Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.
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But not everyone implemented electricity-generating bicycles for environmental reasons.
The resulting steam drives a standard electricity-generating turbine.
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Tellingly, about two-thirds of bids for solar energy contracts last year (by electricity generated) were for photovoltaic projects and only a third were for solar thermal power plants, which deploy vast arrays of mirrors to heat liquids and produce steam to drive an electricity-generating turbine.
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The recession and a surge in the number of new power plants brought online had cut the prices it could charge for generating electricity--its core business--from a peak of 25 cents per kilowatt-hour (in California, December 2000) to 2.7 cents a year later.
An announcement by the electricity regulator that three state-owned generating companies would raise their prices by 16-22% was quickly countermanded.
When co-generating heat and electricity, solid oxide fuel cells can reach combined efficiencies upwards of 85%, which is excellent, but no word yet whether or not the Bloom fuel cell will co-generate heat.
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Now called TXU, it's the largest distributor of electricity in England and the fourth-largest generating company.
Their plutonium power sources will stop generating electricity in about 10-15 years, at which point their instruments and transmitters will die.
But the plant had been closed over the Easter holidays so had enough fuel to continue generating electricity through the five-hour demonstration.
They include nuclear plants (there are now much cheaper ways of generating electricity), and long-term contracts with various alternative energy suppliers.
However, the Committee on Climate Change, the government's statutory advisers, say that in order to meet long-term climate targets, the electricity generating sector should be "virtually decarbonised" by 2030.
Together the projects are expected to create more than 500 wind turbines, generating 1, 500 megawatts of electricity - or 1.5% of the UK's energy needs.
Coal is the dominant energy source for generating electricity in China, with Coal-fired power plants account for nearly three quarters of electricity produced in China, and the most intense demand is along the coast in Eastern Chinese provinces.
Once completed it is expected to generate 6.4 MWh DC (equivalent to 5MW AC) and be capable of generating enough electricity to power about 700 average-sized homes.
But, in the short-term, not all of the inputs in generating electricity will rise.
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