The advantage plug-in hybrids have over regular hybrids, its proponents say, is you can power them by electricity alone.
To lock in low long-term power costs, Higgins scavenged carrion from the meltdown: power plants built by electricity producers when prices were high.
The market for wind power has been buffeted by low electricity demand, low natural gas prices (which make wind power comparatively more expensive) and a tough financing environment.
Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources of Americans' energy: the coal burned by power plants for electricity and the oil that is refined to run automobiles.
Hundreds of homes are still without power with electricity engineers delayed by road closures.
And combined heat and power, which allows companies and householders to use the heat created by power generation as well as the electricity it produces, is booming.
The existing traditional network will also need to be upgraded to accommodate electricity from new power stations, including nuclear, the report by the Electricity Networks Strategy Group for the government said.
For the precise method that we subsidise solar power in the UK is by forcing all users of electricity to pay more to the generators of solar power.
More than 600 million people were affected by the power cut after three electricity grids collapsed, one for a second consecutive day.
He said the technology could be used to capture waste heat from a conventional 500-megawatt thermal power plant to boost electricity out by 200 megawatts.
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The idea is that the donations will serve to offset the carbon dioxide released into the air by the electricity used to power the computer.
Solar power may be cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels and nuclear reactors within three to five years because of innovations, said Mark M.
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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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The bottom line is that electricity supplied by the power grid is increasingly incapable of providing the quality of electric service needed to operate an advanced economy.
Utilities want those power plants to store solar energy so it can be used to balance a power grid increasingly supplied by intermittent sources of electricity like wind farms.
User fees are charges for items like postage stamps, Medicare premiums, veterans' life insurance policies and electricity rates for power supplied by federal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Over the past decade, the U.S. electric power industry has reduced carbon emissions, reigned in demand growth and diversified the portfolio of energy resources used to generate electricity provided by the power grid.
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User fees are charges for items like postage stamps, Medicare premiums, veterans' life insurance policies and electricity rates for power supplied by federal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority (nyse: TVC - news - people ).
"According to our results, a battery electric vehicle, with electricity produced by the power generation mix we currently have in Europe, compares favourably in the magnitude of 10% or so with diesel, " Daimler's chief executive Dieter Zetsche told the BBC.
When the oldest of these, Calder Hall at Sellafield in Cumbria, was opened by the queen in 1956, the government hoped that the electricity produced by Britain's first nuclear power station would be so cheap that it would be hardly worth metering and charging for.
Western Power says it hopes to have restored electricity by the end of Saturday.
Only about 20% of the country's electricity is created by atomic power plants.
Demand response (DR) encompasses programs that pay consumers money to stop using electricity provided by the central power grid during periods of peak demand or system contingencies.
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Electricity comes from an ancient power plant built by Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.
The South African government says almost 90% of the country's electricity is generated by coal-fired power stations.
Rainien said crews were slowly restoring power, and he expected electricity to be fully restored by midnight Sunday.
It churns out 1000 kilowatts of electricity an hour, carried by huge power lines to the surrounding sphere(ph) region.
NETA, he fought the vested interests of the power utilities and helped to bring down wholesale electricity prices by 40%.
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By 2013, nuclear power will generate 414 gigawatts of electricity, or 13% more than the 367 GW it generated last year, according to Lehman Brothers.
This is a big year for lobbying, and natural gas producers could indeed benefit from a cap-and-trade bill because it would create an incentive to rely less on electricity generated by traditional coal-fired power plants.
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