Many other industrial giants have developed their own power generation capacity over the years.
Williamson figures he can add another 20 gigawatts of generation capacity without having to staff up.
The major benefits are avoided fuel use, reduced line losses, and reduced generation capacity requirements.
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And even then, the generation capacity would not be baseload, only on when the sun shines.
Wind and natural gas have comprised the preponderance of installed generation capacity in the past decade.
India now has 4, 500 megawatts of installed wind generators, accounting for about 3.4% of total electricity-generation capacity.
All told, the new generation capacity supported by the Recovery Act is going to power 16.7 million homes.
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The resulting disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant led to a shut-down of the country's full nuclear power-generation capacity.
The selected projects represent more than 22, 000 kilowatts (kW) of new generation capacity.
The agreement makes it easy for Renaissance to gain the generation capacity of Kuzbassenergo cheaply in a future tender.
Wind is responsible for 35 percent of the installed generation capacity in the last five years, the wind folks say.
In February it said it will increase its solar-power generation capacity nearly eightfold to more than 10, 000 megawatts by March 2017.
At the same time, and secondly, energy firms must replace around a third of Britain's power-generation capacity over the next decade.
More than half of the country's electricity comes from coal-powered plants and NTPC relies on coal for 80% of its generation capacity.
The report's authors produced what they called a "route map" that illustrated ways to bridge the gap in the UK's generation capacity.
UES's share price and encourage foreign utilities to buy into generation capacity.
It forecasts that the total global generation capacity of nuclear power plants could increase from 368 gigawatts in 2005 to 519 gigawatts in 2030.
The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that demand-response networks could safely handle 20 gigawatts of power, roughly 2% of the country's 900 gigs of generation capacity.
It found that renewables accounted for 44% of all new energy generation capacity added last year, up from 34% in 2010 and just 10.3% back in 2004.
This comes at a time when companies are investing billions of pounds in new generation capacity to ensure an essential, reliable and safe energy supply to their customers.
The study identified future potential electric generation capacity of 158 gigawatts for advanced coal, 78 gigawatts for water and dry-cooled concentrated solar energy and 515 gigawatts for large nuclear reactor plants.
Currently, India's total power generation capacity is 210 gigawatts.
Mr. Srivastava told reporters on the sidelines of an industry conference that India's power generation capacity is expected to touch 700 gigawatts in 2030-31, of which 365 gigawatts would be generated by burning coal.
Nevertheless, Mr Jank thinks the world market for Brazilian ethanol will grow and that the sugar industry can triple its electricity co-generation capacity to 15, 000MW (around 27% of Brazil's demand today) from its present acreage of cane.
"While there is enough generation capacity to mean that widespread power-cuts are still unlikely, narrower margins mean the risks of outages are higher and scarcity of energy could also feed into possible price rises in future, " he said.
Earlier this week the giant power utility AEP announced that, in a settlement with the EPA and several states, it was shuttering three coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky with 2, 000 megawatts of generation capacity.
So it may surprise the reader that as of December 2011 there were over 37, 000 Megawatts of additional wind generation capacity actively planned or under construction, and about 3, 500 MW of Solar, which will make about 20% of the total PJM capacity by 2018.
Meanwhile, the weaker yen means higher costs for rising imports of natural gas, which is priced in dollar terms, to help compensate for the loss of nuclear power generation capacity after most atomic power plants remain closed after the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
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