Guernsey's St Sampson's Harbour is due to close on Sunday evening for the delayed delivery of a 360-tonne electricity generator.
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CEZ, the main electricity generator (though the process was held up this week by the threat of lawsuits from spurned financial advisers).
But if there is only one nearby mine that can be relied upon as a supplier, the electricity generator tends to own it.
Korea Electric Power (KEP, 13) is its sole electricity generator.
Enersis ( ENI - news - people ) (ENI, 21) is an electricity generator and distributor based in Chile but reaching into Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
Several studies find, for instance, that when an electricity generator can choose between the output of many nearby coalmines that produce coal of a particular quality, it tends to buy its coal on an open market.
"It is the last big piece in the jigsaw which Powergen has constructed to transform itself from a pure electricity generator into an integrated power company and major player in the UK energy market, " he said.
Alan Stern expects that after the Pluto flyby in 2015 or so, there will be plenty of power left, both electricity from the plutonium generator and fuel, so New Horizons will keep on going to explore other Plutolike objects in this region of the solar system which is known as the Kuiper Belt.
The on-board motor is a tiny, 3-cylinder generator that supplies electricity when the battery runs low.
Perhaps the sun over the Sahara could indeed be the future super generator of our electricity.
But the engine powers a generator that creates electricity that turns the wheels, so it's an e-car in its way.
TidGen is, however, the first tidal generator that creates electricity without a dam a far better solution for the fish.
And just before the gas heads to the still it is passed through a turbo-generator which producers electricity for the distillery.
The steam then goes to a generator to produce electricity.
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Ivanpah is a solar concentrator project, using fields of mirrors, known as heliostats, to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. (This project when finished will include 173, 000 heliostats.) The concentrated sunlight is used to heat water, generating steam which is used to turn a traditional turbine and generator to produce electricity.
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An internal combustion generator converts the gas back into electricity to provide power for the home.
Race Point Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts doesn't have electricity-just gas lanterns-and the generator runs for barely two hours a day.
The DOE said presently less than 10 percent of power electronics is involved in the electric industry, from the generator to the use of the electricity.
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The fight between Repsol YPF , a Spanish energy concern, and Endesa , Spain's leading electricity provider, for the second-biggest generator, Iberdrola, has ended in a government-sanctioned settlement.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
That initial investment should provide the island's 14, 000 residents with enough clean electricity to shut down its heavy-oil-powered generator in 2004.
The gasoline engine only turns a generator, which charges the battery and sends electricity to two electric traction motors that drive the car.
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Then, when electricity is needed, the air can be released and used to turn a generator.
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Then there is no electricity - very few villagers can afford to rent a line from a creaky generator which fires up once a day.
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The 1.4-liter gasoline engine under the hood acts as a generator after the 16.5 kWh battery is depleted and feeds electricity back to the motor.
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Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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State-owned power generator Meridian Energy of New Zealand announced last week that Rio Tinto has approached it to renegotiate the electricity contract for its aluminium smelter at Bluff.
He scoured the world for the perfect battery technology (a combination of lightweight and long charging), added a solar panel for those without plug-in electricity recharge options, leveraged local university engineering talent to make it all work, and delivered a truly silent generator that can run a full size refrigerator for over a day if the power goes down.
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