The biggest is probably the large amount of coal to gas switching occurring in the power generation industry.
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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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Electric-power generation, transportation, industry, agriculture, and residential sectors all emitted less greenhouse gas in 2009 than in 2008.
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Yet now share prices have slumped and the central bank has been forced to reassure financial markets that a wave of defaults in the sector will not hurt the banks, which have about 7% of their loans to the power industry, mainly to generation firms.
As noted in previous posts, current consumption figures do not reflect the expected growth in areas such as chemical industry feedstocks, or power generation (where most new fossil-based supply will come from highly efficient gas-fired generators).
Generation at the power stations was sold to industry investors.
Yet these two large software companies did not have many users in the electric power industry, especially any focused on power generation and grid management.
Mr. Srivastava told reporters on the sidelines of an industry conference that India's power generation capacity is expected to touch 700 gigawatts in 2030-31, of which 365 gigawatts would be generated by burning coal.
Bills to raise tax revenues, relax limits on foreign investment in banks and to privatize power generation are languishing, although a proposal to open the retail industry to foreigners is ready for signing.
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In the U.S., industry uses more water than agriculture thanks to its use in power generation.
Over the course of the next 18 months, our nations would bring together industry leaders from different sectors of our economies, such as power generation and alternative fuels and transportation.
The Japanese nuclear accident has come at a delicate time for the nuclear-power industry, growing globally, for the first time in decades as a new generation of "passive" designs is being embraced as offering more safety.
America, the world's second-biggest coal producer after China, has mammoth reserves and a power industry that is turning against coal (currently responsible for almost half of domestic electricity generation).
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The new system is suitable for numerous industry sectors including highway transportation, marine, rail and remote industries such as mining and distributed power generation.
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