It's far more efficient than most national electricity grids, which rely on large central power stations to send electricity exclusively in one direction from the power stations to the final customer.
Mr. Srivastava said apart from production issues, there are also significant difficulties in moving coal from mines to power stations due to a shortage of rail wagons for hauling the dry fuel.
On energy, there will be legislation aimed at incentivising businesses to invest in new sources of low-carbon power, from wind farms to nuclear power stations.
Some people have looked at the idea of grinding up peridotite and using it to soak up emissions from power stations, but the process turns out to be expensive, partly because of the costs of transporting all the rock.
One obvious way for firms in the power sector to reduce their emissions is to switch the type of energy they use, for example from inefficient coal-fired power stations to efficient gas stations.
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In the UK, during 2012, electricity generation from coal-fired power stations actually increased to almost 40% of total production, as the price of gas soared, and gas-fired electricity generation was reduced.
The World Coal Association (WCA), a trade body for the industry, said that burning coal account for about 24% of global mercury emissions and the use of "adequate technologies" could reduce emissions of the metal from coal-fired power stations by up to 90%.
This is to fill the energy gap from closing a number of coal and nuclear power stations over the next two decades, and to meet the government's carbon dioxide emissions targets.
The investments will, among other things, hook up new wind farms and nuclear power stations to the electricity grid to replace traditional coal-fired power stations, and enable more liquefied natural gas imported from Qatar and elsewhere to be added to the gas network as North Sea gas supplies dwindle.
The regulators on Thursday also approved nearly 1, 100 megawatts of utility contracts to purchase electricity from solar power stations and wind farms.
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The existing traditional network will also need to be upgraded to accommodate electricity from new power stations, including nuclear, the report by the Electricity Networks Strategy Group for the government said.
Moreover, during this period, he expected carbon capture and storage technology to become cost-effective, thus helping to reduce or eliminate emissions from gas power stations.
The institution says 80% of the gas needed to fuel British power stations will come from distant and "politically unstable" countries by then.
As supplies of oil are being sought in increasingly inhospitable regions of the globe to meet rising demand against finite supply, the hunt is on for uranium in the face of an emphasis to turn-away from fossil-fuel based power stations and toward nuclear.
But Mr Huhne came under pressure from Labour MPs aiming to exploit differences between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats over new nuclear power stations .
The RPi has since be used to power everything from home-made jukeboxes to baby monitors to miniature near-space crafts and digital weather-stations.
Without an explicit order from the prime minister, Japanese troops are not allowed to guard the prime minister's residence, nuclear power stations, American military bases or a host of other likely terrorist targets.
Just before he retired from the company, he launched a plan to turn 65 million square feet of unused commercial rooftops into solar power stations, the largest array in the country, with enough electricity for more than 160, 000 homes.
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To get 42 kWh per day per person from nuclear power would require 525 one-gigawatt nuclear power stations, a roughly five-fold increase over today's levels.
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