The company has not specified what types of power plants it might acquire.
As it stands now, TXU plans to place emission controls on the three remaining coal plants it intends to build.
In the power plants it gives off massive greenhouse gas emissions.
Duke did this with a pair of "peaker" plants it built in Indiana and Ohio, locking in the first year's expected profits before construction was completed.
When it swills out of abattoirs and rendering-plants it carries some animal excrement, along with all the other debris for which even industrial meat processing finds no use.
It has been for decades, when U.S. slaughter plants produced it legally. (The last plants to do so closed in 2007).
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Gibbs was speaking on the heels of a declaration by Iran that not only will it move ahead with plans to build 10 new nuclear plants, it will take legal action over infringements on its nuclear rights.
If foreign manufacturers move their plants, it will probably be to drier places in Thailand.
There are no big power plants using it, just a handful of small demonstration projects.
That business has collapsed, and jobs at sea and in processing plants with it.
If a utility wishes to own its own power plants, it should be free to do so.
They say that although the contract guarantees jobs at many plants, it also calls for plant closings.
Instead of buying and operating more plants, it entered into long-term contracts to buy electricity wholesale from utilities around the country.
Kitchen scraps and garden material are taken to biogas plants where it is used to generate methane and electricity in turn.
In addition to the rules about new power plants, it will soon have to produce an emissions policy for existing facilities.
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But unlike biodiesels based on soya or other plants, it does not divert crops or land from food production into fuel production.
You argue that CCS is unproven because no power plants use it today, yet you do not recognise the economic reasons behind this.
Beijing catches so much of the pollution from coal-burning power plants because it sits at the center of a ring of mountains, which help trap the smog.
Water is used whether the plants need it or not.
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But industry officials and legal experts say Beijing could lift its suspension of approvals for new nuclear plants when it releases a report on the review, possibly by year's end.
More specifically, the EPA could expand its regulations to cover existing power plants (it is already set to regulate new power plant emissions), which produce nearly 40 percent of U.S. emissions.
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By making its own polysilicon and building its own power plants, it hopes to protect itself from the vagaries of supply in an immature market and also boost demand for its products.
Power plants give it a solid customer base.
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Yet each firm has sunk so much capital in plants that it is strongly tempted to use the capacity to build extra cars that fetch enough revenue to cover marginal costs in the short run, but not total costs in the long run.
It is used to power nuclear plants, and it is used for medical diagnoses and research.
Argentina's government complains that Uruguay did not consult it about the plants, which, it says, will pollute the river, over which the two countries share sovereignty.
As it rolls out new plants in North America (it now has 13), it is implementing pay schemes for new hires that could keep the pay gap as healthy as ever.
Not only would the exhaust keep the plants warm, it might also fertilise them.
The reason is simple: gas is abundant and cheap, and the power plants that use it are also cheap.
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