In the U.S., industry uses more water than agriculture thanks to its use in power generation.
Oil demand is recovering along with industrial activities growth, most accurately reflected in power generation.
Parsons, which was founded more than 100 years ago, specialises in power generation and motors.
In power generation, Kao will have to deal not only with China's approval process.
Limited private investment in power generation itself has been allowed for seven years already.
Mr Steiner says that bridging the gap remains technically possible from large reductions in power generation and transport.
He sees a wave of consolidation ahead as weaker players in power generation liquidate and put desirable assets up for sale.
Due to large overcapacity in power generation, the central hydroelectric, nuclear and fossil-fired power stations are now competing in a free market.
Two other forces are helping fuel cells in power generation.
Other Latin American countries can offer no solution: Venezuela, Chile and Mexico are also struggling to attract investment in power generation and transmission without a politically explosive rise in tariffs.
The markets are perfectly capable of winnowing things out on their own, and have already created a dramatic reduction in US greenhouse gas emissions thanks to the increased use of natural gas in power generation.
In the power generation segment, the solutions offered in the Packaged Solutions include fully integrated sub-system solutions for the protection and control of generators ranging from tens of kilowatts to hundreds of megawatts in size.
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Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.
The biggest is probably the large amount of coal to gas switching occurring in the power generation industry.
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After the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, the country has imported more LNG to offset the loss in atomic power generation.
Walters Power International, the ex-official's firm, had been trying for years to gain a foothold in Pakistani power generation.
Radioactive materials used in nuclear power generation must be isolated from human or environmental contact for thousands of years.
The company is continuing to pursue contracts in the offshore oil and gas industries - and also in wind power generation from offshore sites.
But with the economy set to grow by up to 7% this year, and tens of millions of Brazilians consuming more after leaving poverty, investing in more power generation is essential.
Ironically, given its far greater effort to tackle climate change, the European Union has seen its emissions rise, partly because of an increase in coal-fired power generation in response to Europe's high gas price.
Indeed, a Bloomberg report released in January showed that US carbon emissions last year dropped dramatically, to 1994 levels, largely as a result of fuel switching in the power generation sector from coal to natural gas.
This huge abundance of natural gas is a blessing for Texas in the power generation sector, as electric providers look for alternatives as increasingly strict EPA air quality regulations make it more and more difficult to generate electricity by burning coal.
The folly of this switch by a group of activists who regularly claim their efforts are justified to fight global climate change is made obvious by the revelation late last year that US carbon emissions have plummeted to 1992 levels, largely as a result of widespread switching from coal to natural gas in the power generation sector.
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Jore believes they can leverage the CORE motor technology in a wind turbine power generation system at Boulder Wind Power in Colorado for residential and commercial deployments.
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Another senior executive in charge of power-generation fuel cells has a background in American utilities.
Profit in its Fossil Power Generation sector was the strongest, with profit up 10% to 407 million, as good project executive offset the lower new orders compared to a year ago.
In the United States power generation industry, the switching from coal to natural gas is in full swing and likely to accelerate over the coming years.
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Both countries remain besotted with sheer size, though many of the most promising developments in power supply are in small-scale generation.
If the people in the Great Plains are going to be subsidised to do something, does it not make more sense to subsidise jobs in the construction and assembly of power plants and the generation of clean power rather than an unhelpful distortion in the world's agricultural markets?
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