Output this financial year has passed a previous record of 3, 890 gigawatt hours (GWh).
The goal is to produce a gigawatt of energy in years, not decades.
The Edison Electric Institute reports that U.S. electric power output hit a new winter record of 89, 483 gigawatt hours last week.
SSE, which trades as Scottish Hydro north of the border, said Glendoe was already producing about three gigawatt hours of electricity for the network.
Research suggests that up between 20 and 30 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electric energy could be stored as useful heat in hot water.
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Building and running a 1-gigawatt factory will be a big undertaking, and the company is at the early stage of tackling it.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change report said 14, 600 Gigawatt hours were generated in Scotland from renewables such as wind and hydro.
At that speed one factory could produce a gigawatt of solar modules per year, ten times as much as the U.S. is now installing.
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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It also notes a projection from Bloomberg that PV solar will grow by 22% annually through 2020, with 4.5 gigawatt-hours (4, 500 megawatt-hours) coming from on-site solar.
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California recently set a record for winter solar power generation, almost reaching the previous record set this summer of just over 1 gigawatt of solar energy.
Bentek, the natural gas analysis group, figures that hydro generation will be 35% higher than usual this year, averaging 166 gigawatt-hours per day from January through August.
It plans to start looking for a location for the 1-gigawatt factory soon and aims to break ground during the first half of 2014, van Mierlo said.
Constellation Energy last year put a 1.9 gigawatt nuclear plant project in Maryland on hold because it could not come to terms with the Department of Energy on a loan guarantee.
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Nanosolar announced Thursday that it had signed contracts to supply up to one gigawatt of its thin-film photovoltaic panels to European solar power plant builders over the next three to six years.
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If 5.3 million people used the new tool and cut back their electricity consumption by 10%, they would save the equivalent of a gigawatt of power--enough to power a large city, Cahill added.
Grid operators in the Pacific Northwest have repeatedly pulled the plug on several large wind farms in Oregon and Washington State, collectively curtailing roughly 13 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind power since last Wednesday.
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The company has announced or completed projects in place such as California and China, and in May it said it would team up with Spanish firm Isofoton to jointly develop 1 gigawatt of power projects worldwide.
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The grease will be fed into the power station at Beckton in east London, and is set to produce 130 Gigawatt hours (GWh) a year of renewable electricity - enough to run 39, 000 average-sized homes, according to Thames Water.
American Electric Power ( AEP - news - people )'s 1.3-gigawatt coal plant in New Haven, West Virginia began burying 1.5% of its carbon dioxide under a cap of dolomite 7, 800 feet below the Ohio River.
Conventional geothermal power stations worldwide have a total capacity of 10.7 gigawatts (GW) and will generate 67, 250 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy this year enough to supply power to more than 52.5m people in 24 countries, according to America's Geothermal Energy Association.
He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.
An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.
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Eventually the U.S. will come around, too, since it must replace as much as 50 gigawatts of existing nuclear power by midcentury. (One very large power plant produces a gigawatt.) "Describe to me how it works by 2040 if you don't have new nuclear plants built, " says John Rice, the 48-year-old vice chairman, who started out with Immelt in GE's plastics division.
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