More than three decades after we built the last of our aging 104 nuclear plants which provide about one-fifth of U.S. electricity, future updates and expansions are more uncertain than ever.
The government has now said that private firms should generate 30% of future electricity.
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Pakistan has officially opened its second nuclear power plant as part of its programme to meet the country's future electricity demands.
If solar power is to make up much of the world's electricity output in future, as supporters of alternative energy hope it will, a lot of land will be needed for the power stations.
In fact, the Committee on Climate Change warns that relying heavily on gas for future electricity supplies would leave households vulnerable to higher bills in the long run as the price of gas on the international market is volatile.
Instead the government is set to fix the future price of new nuclear electricity, to give investors the certainty of a future income stream.
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Saved electricity data may help future generations solve unanticipated problems, just as 1960s satellite images collected before awareness of the climate problem assist us today.
But the UK Government must deliver its Electricity Market Reform programme quickly and effectively to give confidence in the future market and allow companies to plan and invest for a future secure, stable and broad based electricity generating mix.
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It's a future in which renewable electricity is fueling plug-in hybrid cars and energy-efficient homes and businesses.
Bayer, a chemical firm, said it was considering moving production to countries where electricity prices have a more certain future.
Perhaps the sun over the Sahara could indeed be the future super generator of our electricity.
Even France, which depends upon reactors for about 80% of its electricity, is experiencing internal debate over future use.
In other words, Waxman-Markey is betting the future of U.S. electricity production on sources that now contribute 3% or supply 10 million Americans with electricity.
The growing costs and high compensation claims have raised fears about the very future of Tepco, which provides electricity to some of the most densely populated and economically important regions of Japan.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) is among an alliance of groups aiming to influence a government's plan for a 'smart grid' and a new national planning policy on the future of the nation's electricity transmission network.
As construction proceeds, the difference between the price of gas and the price of electricity widens and narrows, giving Duke the opportunity to sell more of the expected output if the price rises or sell output in future years to lock in profits on electricity it has yet to generate.
In fact, I can drive over 45, 000 miles a year on the electricity that is produced by the solar carport at Sustainable Future.
On the other hand, the iSlate, a completely solar-powered solar-powered computer tablet targeting at rural communities without access to electricity, may move into markets in the not-so-distant future.
And while there are already prototypes of much more efficient cars on the road -- such as those using natural gas, electricity, hydrogen fuel cells -- they may only be a baby step toward the future.
Northern Powergrid's chief executive Phil Jones said the investment was to "prepare the UK's electricity networks for the move to smarter power grids needed for a long-term low carbon future".
But the world in the future will continue suffering financial crises, recessions and business cycles, as it did before electricity was born.
The carmaker sees it as the future of motoring, insisting hydrogen is better than batteries that need to be very heavy to supply enough electricity.
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