It helps for producing electricity, but if industrial countries like the U.S. and Europe can put in place more environmentally sound resources like nuclear energy, it would allow more developing countries to use fossil fuels for their development in the 21st century.

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In August, the New England Independent System Operator (ISO-NE) asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to penalize businesses and other ratepayers for producing clean electricity during periods of peak demand or high congestion.

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One, labouring under the term of "contracts for difference", is a mechanism under which the government will guarantee a price that energy firms can obtain for producing and selling electricity generated either by wind farms or new nuclear power stations.

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That said, different combinations of materials have different electricity-producing potential for the same weight and volume.

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Lawyers for a Dundee man accused of "recklessly producing household electricity" have branded the charges against him "irrelevant and incompetent".

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SSE, which trades as Scottish Hydro north of the border, said Glendoe was already producing about three gigawatt hours of electricity for the network.

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"What we are finding is that when people know that he way that they're exercising here is actually producing electricity and helping the environment, it is one additional motivation for the workout, " says California Fitness President Steve Clinefelter.

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