Revenue generating units were up 2.5% or 263, 200 from a year ago, but down 0.1%, or 9, 800, from the prior quarter.
While total revenue generating units fell by 63, 000 to 35.8 million, the company managed to add more high speed data and digital phone subscribers.
It eventually plans to convert three of its six generating units to biomass, which it says will halve its carbon footprint within five years.
"We have revenue-generating units sitting idle that could be dispatched, and we're not aware of that now, " says Paul Mueller, vice president in charge of communications technology at Schneider.
The spike in prices in some PJM pricing zones probably resulted from reliance on higher-cost, quick-start generating units, which were used initially to replace the lost generating capacity.
Since the 1920s the emphasis has been on increasing conventional generating unit size up to a now optimal size of 600, 000 kW. These must employ transmission and distribution lines to integrate electrical loads which almost always are much smaller, and also to integrate generating units to permit reserve sharing.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
Furthermore, he said despite near-term issues and concerns about being able to monetize its 900 million users, Facebook can reach his target by charging for branded pages, improving its advertising units and generating revenue from mobile.
Apple recently announced that 250, 000 iPhones have been sold, but not activated, placing the number of revenue-generating iPhones at perhaps closer to 1 million units.
Despite tough market conditions, the carmaker said it still expects to meet its target of 55 million units sold in 2009 as it makes generating positive cash flow its priority.
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