Wind is projected to supply 16% of Spain's entire electricity generating capacity by 2010.
All of the electricity generating companies are struggling to make money at the moment.
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.
Social Action Party MP and Deputy Agriculture Minister Rakkiat Sookthana, 41, has come under fire for his involvement in the controversial dismissal and replacement of the Electricity Generating Authority's board of directors.
"The UK has incredible offshore wind resources and this sector will play a key part in improving security of supply and decarbonising our electricity generating system, " said a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
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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Recently Thaksin opponents were able to derail the proposed privatization of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) because of a dispute over its ownership of some assets and the presence of one of Thaksin's economic aides, Olarn Chaipravat (with his own vested interests in EGAT), advising EGAT on the deal.
For investors to view the electricity-generating business with enthusiasm, they must be able to find out what the real price of electricity is.
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.
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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It states the station, which started generating electricity in 1971, will stop production in 2010.
It is no secret that coal is dirty and that generating electricity from coal causes pollution.
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But, in the short-term, not all of the inputs in generating electricity will rise.
This drives the piston back and forth so that it acts as an alternator, generating electricity.
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He explains that the technology works by first generating electricity in the traditional manner of a wind turbine.
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