The FERC quote mentioned above is from a 2007 study called The Potential Benefits Of Distributed Generation And Rate-Related Issues That May Impede Their Expansion.
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"The government must guarantee that any subsidies for new power generation and any rate of return to suppliers are fair, and not overly generous at consumers' expense, " said the group's director of energy Audrey Gallacher.
Is there any attempt to rate power generation projects by relative risk to humans, species, or the environment?
Last year, after all, global GDP grew by 5.1%, the fastest rate in a generation.
Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
The share buyback expansion seems unlikely to shrink the current cash balance at all given the rate of cash generation.
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But with consistent and rapid improvements in technology, scientists are no longer able to keep pace with the rate of data generation, which includes interrelated data of different types.
The natural birth rate in the USA has been below natural replacement rate for nearly a generation, and the USA has relied on massive immigration to continue population growth.
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The current generation of battery technology can charge at this rate.
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For this to happen, gas generation would need to be paid a higher rate than is traditionally the case, since it would be primarily used in a back-up role.
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As PCIe products move from Generation 2 to Generation 3 with a doubling of the data rate per PCIe communications lane, flash based storage devices using this interface as their data transfer backbone will enable very high performance systems.
Wilcox says the next generation of these readers will refresh at twice the current rate.
Even small differences in the rate of growth have huge consequences over a generation or two.
The rate and ease of farms passing from one generation to the next is another matter for the group.
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It's a signal that labor costs for businesses are not picking up even though the unemployment rate hovers at the lowest level in a generation.
More than 20 species have been successfully cloned, and there is now talk in some conservation circles of a veritable Jurassic Park-effect becoming essential, as the rate of species extinctions exceeds anything biologists even a generation ago could have imagined.
As the boomer generation matured, married, found jobs and shouldered mortgages, so the crime rate fell.
The crime rate was higher in the 1960s and 1970s when many in that large generation were teenagers, an age when higher proportions of people commit crimes.
From 1891 to 2007 the U.S. economy grew 2% a year, a sufficient rate to lift almost all Americans out of poverty and ensure that each generation would be more prosperous than the next.
The new GOP leadership team has a new generation of thought leaders formulating up-to-date prescriptions for doubling the growth rate from 2% to 4%, the prescription upon which both job growth and deficit reduction depend.
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Those sweeping tax rate cuts helped spawn the greatest economic boom in world history over the next generation, 1982 to 2007.
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If economic growth carries on at the current rate in China, it will require up to 1, 000 gigawatts of new electricity generation in China.
The Next Generation Cane is designed to help elderly people find their way, as well as monitor things such as heart rate and temperature.
Because existing treatments have such a low cure rate and sometimes unbearable side effects, biotech and pharmaceutical companies have been racing to develop a new generation of better drugs.
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