Of course, no dam ever runs at full capacity and because of the rise and fall of Amazon rivers during the dry seasons, the Belo Monte dam is expected to average around 4, 500 megawatts, making it still one of the most powerful generators of electricity in the country, and very important for mining operations in Para state.
In turn, high natural gas prices pushed up electricity prices in many parts of the country, especially in states like New York where highest-priced gas-fired generators set the price of electricity during high-demand hours.
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For the precise method that we subsidise solar power in the UK is by forcing all users of electricity to pay more to the generators of solar power.
India now has 4, 500 megawatts of installed wind generators, accounting for about 3.4% of total electricity-generation capacity.
Specifically, electricity from natural gas power plants comes at less than half the cost of electricity from coal generators.
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Such fears were strengthened by claims that the state power distributor has overpaid private electricity generators, some of them owned by politicians.
As one of the largest electricity generators in the U.S., we, at Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), believe that EPA's air pollutant regulations should be viewed as an opportunity to modernize the nation's electric power infrastructure.
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With only a minimum of electricity generated by diesel generators to run monitors, ventilators and other medically necessary equipment, a skeleton crew has kept watch over the hospital.
Essentially, 12, 000 or so electricity generators and industrial heavy users of energy have had their emissions limited by EU law.
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In Iraq and Afghanistan about 40% of fuel is used to run electricity generators.
Sir Reg said he was currently looking at ways of buying out contracts negotiated with electricity generators during privatisation in the early 1990s.
The factories regularly lost power and had to rely on their own diesel generators, at a cost four times that of regular electricity.
Dr. Ruth Berggren, an infectious disease specialist at Charity Hospital, said the facility had electricity until back-up generators ran out of fuel Tuesday.
In addition to driving the turbines to create electricity, the steam generators are "one of the barriers between the radioactive material in the reactor core and ultimately the external environment, " Jaczko noted.
Should the U.S. attempt to buy-off the North Koreans with a package of financial and technical support that ultimately will give them a major nuclear reactor complex -- particularly when oil-fired power-generators make more sense, assuming the stated purpose of generating electricity is really Pyongyang's goal?
The country's booming middle-class have virtually seceded from public services - they avoid government hospitals and public transport, hire private security and run private generators for their electricity - and the poor bear the brunt of the miserable services.
Businesses have to rely heavily on fuel-guzzling generators to meet their electricity needs and this substantially increases the costs of doing business in the country.
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Our team of nine journalists and four drivers had arrived in Concepcion to join a few others, but we'd all been stymied by the lack of generators or fuel to power them in a place with no electricity.
The trouble is that most of the time the wholesale price of electricity is set by the three main fossil-fuel generators.
In January, it announced moves to freeze and cap incentives to green electricity generators amid growing political concern about spiralling energy costs ahead of September elections.
Mr. Norvelle said the four diesel generators at the plant, 40 miles northwest of Richmond, can furnish enough electricity to run vital safety systems indefinitely at the two-reactor site.
Everybody is aware of the radiation risk Japan faces from its damaged nuclear powered electricity generators.
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The first applications of a new technology, Ms Kamarck says, never realise its potential: when electricity arrived, some misguided companies acquired separate generators for each floor of their buildings.
Allows generation of power from other sources (i.e. wave to electricity generators, fuel cells).
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In alternative energy news, the remote Pacific Island territory of Tokelau (population: 1, 411), which previously relied on diesel generators for electricity, officially became the world's first solar-powered nation.
Generators powered by fuel cells quietly whir and produce half the heat of diesel as they combine hydrogen with air to create electricity.
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