Employees in large plants find their jobs more at risk than do employees at small ones.
That equates to 40, 000 megawatts of electricity, or enough to displace 80 large coal plants.
Indeed, Tampa and El Paso have large desalination plants that are seldom running at full capacity.
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And while around two dozen large scale plants have been proposed, it is unclear how many will actually come on line.
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Ministers are proposing that all large coal plants will be required to capture carbon emissions by 2025, and new ones from 2020 onwards.
Large power plants would achieve significant fuel savings and thus greatly reduce their carbon dioxide emissions as a result of such an increase.
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The local business operates from about 133 service centres in 31 countries and rents out products ranging from small generators to large cooling plants.
Among the targeted infrastructure was everything from systems that control traffic lights in large cities to nuclear plants, water treatment plants , large manufacturers, defense contractors and high tech companies.
But for the most part, large power plants cannot shutdown for just one hour as there are thermal and mechanical concerns that put the plant at risk of being damaged for doing so.
As the industry shifts from large central plants to a diverse collection of windmills and biogas generators, managing the complex balance of supply and demand will require fat communications pipes and complex calculations.
Big solar power companies, just like the cutting-edge ethanol and biofuel companies also popular with venture capitalists these days, usually need to tap the debt markets and borrow money to build large production plants.
The Mobile Repair and Operations (MRO) prototype has been built to help maintenance workers who are often called on to find and fix equipment on large industrial plants they have never visited before.
The cellulose, which is produced in large amounts by plants, including grass stems, etc.
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Today, CND waste is sorted in large mechanized processing plants or manually, by people.
Shih's Acer has several large computer assembly plants in China, as do many of its component suppliers, most of whom manufacture in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
The cost of producing solar electricity by large solar power plants plummeted from 31 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2009 to 14 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2012.
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That is pretty much how large nuclear power plants operate.
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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.
Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.
Iraq has a large number of petrochemical plants that could have a dual use.
The place was homey, paneled in dark wood with lots of big, leafy plants and large, stained-glass windows.
First, Americans have become intolerant of large, polluting industrial plants on their doorsteps.
The shortage is being felt at meatpacking plants and large feedlots, where industry giants such as Cargill Inc. fatten cattle before slaughter.
Sam Laidlaw, the boss of Centrica, a British utility, thinks it will take at least 15 years, and probably 20, to roll out CCS plants in large numbers.
"New large-scale power plants and some existing assets are not economically viable in the current environment, " says Matthias Hartung, chief executive of RWE Generation, which bundles RWE's German, Dutch and UK power plants.
After taking samples from 21 spots along the coast, researchers expected to find the most caffeine pollution in areas near wastewater treatment plants, large population centers or rivers and streams emptying into the ocean, said Elise Granek, assistant professor of Environmental Science and Management at Portland State.
Google Earth for siting large-scale electric power plants in the United States.
Howard Herzog of the MIT Energy Initiative points out that even when the technology is perfected it will take years to build up the capacity to construct large numbers of clean coal plants.
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