The facility, run by renewable energy firm Farm Power, will be among the last to qualify for higher rate government subsidies for generating power.
Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful, power generating purposes, not for weapons.
Plans for a power-generating tidal farm off the north Wales coast have been submitted.
As I noted in my February 24 column, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that for new power-generating facilities entering service in 2016, onshore wind power will be 49% more expensive than conventional coal over the lifetime of the respective facilities, offshore wind will be 90% more expensive than coal, solar thermal will be 155% more expensive than coal, and solar photovoltaic will be 295% more expensive than coal.
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The first area, planning for the expansion of power generating capacity, is beyond the scope of this piece but the second and third is not.
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The total amount of coal sold to utility customers was not significantly impacted during the economic downturn as utility coal is used in power plants for generating electricity, the demand for which is largely inelastic.
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Just as with oil, gas and hydroelectric, some places are just better than others for generating different types of power.
Seven years ago, with California sweating through rolling electricity blackouts, the stock market worked up an appetite for outfits selling new ways of generating power.
In fact, investors expected hundreds of thousands of these two-wheeled power scooters for adults to be sold, generating billions of dollars in the first year.
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When the dam was completed in 1935, it delighted socialists by demonstrating that a government project could pay for itself, in this case, by generating power.
Though the output is minute, such a power source could carry on generating electricity unassisted for a long time.
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.
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.
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.
In other words, generating green power is a lot tougher than cutting a check for a Toyota Prius and parking it in your driveway.
In renewable energy news, the German town of Feldheim has set a new standard for energy independence by generating 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources and operating its own power grid.
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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As we continue to think greener and smarter, we'll see new possibilities, like the long-term power-generating potential of an intact Appalachian mountaintop with wind turbines vs. chopping it to pieces for a few years' worth of burnable coal and centuries of environmental devastation.
Bentek explained in a report this week that the abundance of hydropower, especially in the Columbia River Basin, will lead to historically rare negative power prices (where the generating companies actually pay consumers to take the power) as well as a marked reduction in demand for natural gas.
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