The polymers were covered with a thin aluminum coating, but once fed electricity, they began to glow so brightly that light shone through the metal.
Once the electricity price is agreed, the French energy giant will need to confirm its intention to build the two reactors, known as Hinkley Point C.
There is running water once a week, electricity for two hours a day.
Nuclear plants were expensive to build, but once in operation their electricity was cheap enough for baseline power, if never too cheap to meter.
Nuclear plants were expensive to build, but once in operation, their electricity was cheap enough, if never too cheap to meter.
Under Massone's rocky stewardship, Livingston were taken to court for non-payment of rent to West Lothian Council, while payments to players were regularly overdue and the power at Almondvale was once cut off after an electricity bill was left unpaid.
Even with all of the production tax credits, loan guarantees and a battery of other direct and indirect subsidies, nuclear power remains the most expensive source of conventional electricity on the grid once capital costs are plugged into the equation.
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Once power lines were laid down, electricity flowed to farms across the country, transforming millions of lives.
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Ironically, Germany, once a net power exporter, now imports electricity from French nuclear facilities and fossil-powered plants in neighboring countries.
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DeIuliis says the price of natural gas will rebound over time and that coal will once again account for half the nation's electricity.
Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
There are old speaking tubes from pre-electricity days and sleeping porches, which were once used in warmer months before air conditioning was the norm.
Former Information Minister Andres Izarra, for example, was named Tourism Minister while Jesse Chacon, who once served as Interior Minister, was brought back as Electricity Minister.
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"We have a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild our electricity market, rebuild investor confidence, and rebuild our power stations, " Mr Huhne said.
Heavy industry, which is a prodigious user of electricity, is no longer playing the role it once did, and light manufacturing and the services sector, which use much less power, are on the rise.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
After years of steady price increases, electricity prices have been bouncing around and generally falling, and technology once only available to big industrial customers is trickling down to smaller users.
Under his rule, once-prosperous Zimbabwe has suffered an economic crisis with routine shortages of food, electricity and foreign currency.
Firms now in the hottest water once made a lot of money by entering into long-term contracts to buy and sell electricity and gas, often covering just the first few years with countervailing contracts, leaving the remainder as a bet on the direction of prices.
Then there is no electricity - very few villagers can afford to rent a line from a creaky generator which fires up once a day.
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