How do we help women who do have the right mix of moxie, intellectual might and management power to scale up their businesses?
Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.
The Chinese manufacturer is marketing HiPerforma for all types of power generation projects, from rooftop systems for homes and businesses to utility-scale power plants.
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Large-scale power facilities, though, are determined to make the technology both workable and profitable.
The EU wants to see 10-12 full-scale power plants demonstrating CO2 capture within the next few years.
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They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.
This comes after weeks of spotty polling, in which wide-scale power outages and destruction made it difficult to find a truly random opinion sample.
However, if we really want to transform the energy sector in a meaningful way, it will require attention to the other relatively ignored storage domain: grid scale power storage.
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"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.
On Monday, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast of the United States, flooding entire towns in New York and New Jersey, triggering large scale power outages and killing at least 17 people.
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We're now on track to go from zero -- zero commercial-scale biofuel refineries to 19 by the year 2012, and from no commercial-scale power plants operating carbon capture to five by the year 2015.
These could be among the first full-scale power plants in the nation to turn powdered coal into a synthetic natural gas that is burned in a gas turbine whose exhaust gas powers a steam turbine.
But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
This dynamic is also making things comparatively more difficult to build big, utility-scale solar power projects.
Typical utility-scale biomass power plants burn 300, 000 to 800, 000 tons of wood a year.
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It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
This will set the stage for full-scale commercial power that can drive American prosperity for centuries to come.
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So every industry can benefit from web-scale compute power to accelerate turning data into information into competitive advantage.
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For the president to make these quintessentially legislative judgments on his own would usurp power on an enormous scale.
The same has been the case with commercial scale wind power in Denmark.
It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects like the CSVR only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
Mr Gagarinski, asked what the Kurchatov will be doing 20 years from now, foresees research into large-scale nuclear power.
Google Earth for siting large-scale electric power plants in the United States.
The government would grant clean energy credits to operators of non-coal power plants on a scale according to the cleanliness of their generation.
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When the Rural Electrification Act was passed in 1936, only about 10 percent of rural America had access to utility scale electric power.
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But the sequencing of the human genome, an example of the power of industrial-scale science, inspired him, and he wanted to fund something similar.
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When it comes to sources of employment, investment and connectivity, the scale and power of the Midtown Detroit anchors dwarfs anything a foundation could sustain.
One measure is free grid connection for small-and-medium-scale solar power producers.
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In 10-15 years Astrium hopes it will be possible to deploy a complete, small-scale orbiting power station producing significantly more than that from its own solar cells.
It is thought a project on a scale to power the whole island would cost tens of millions of pounds but Deputy Duhamel thinks it would be worth the investment.
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