While cleaner fuels will cost more, shore-side costs vary from place to place and depends on availability of shore power.
Cold-ironing is when ships at berth connect via large cables to the shore-side power grid for electricity.
They are not only using state companies to shore up their power at home, they are directing those companies to reap the fruits of global capitalism.
Dictatorships may still feel the need to bribe their citizens (eg, via subsidised fuel prices) to ensure their acquiescence while simultaneously spending large amounts on the police and the military to shore up their power.
The author went on to ask the State regulators to allow the cruise ships to connect to sources of shore-side power without paying debatably excessive fees to the local utility, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, to do so.
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Grid cables transporting the power to shore are neither expensive - in the greater scheme of things - nor technologically complicated to roll out, so this is a minor part of the project, according to Mr Bratland.
Pipe the ammonia to shore and use it to power a new generation of cars.
Intel plays the injured party and tries to come up with a competitive product in the low-power space to shore up its position.
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It is developing giant off-shore wind turbines, biomass power plants (including projects in Florida and Washington with Duke Energy), and, with its Ausra acquisition, solar thermal power plants.
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Ports across the world are exploring shore-to-ship power capabilities.
Appointing Mr. Hamdallah is likely to shore up the president's power, because he is seen as being more pliant.
Cold-ironing allows ships at dock to plug into shore-side electricity sources to power electronic and mechanical systems needed for loading and unloading activities.
The underwater trunk transmission line carrying the power from the wind farms to shore has to be built.
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If these can be brought to the surface and to shore they will turn Brazil into an oil power.
He marshals the immense power of Washington to reward friends, shore up the base, threaten political enemies, and ensure elections and reelections.
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The Syrian official media has already portrayed Israel's bombings as an attempt to shore up the armed opposition and reverse the balance of power in its favor.
While Hamas's leaders in Gaza shore up their mini-state, Mr Meshal's power base in turbulent Syria is crumbling.
The move could shore up support for the embattled president and possibly strike a power-sharing deal with the former premier.
China does not have the means to project its power anything like as close to America's shore, and shrewdly refrains from suggesting that it would like to.
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Fully working models will be larger and, Makani hopes, be able to generate 600 kW. It hopes the cost of the power generated will initially be competitive with off-shore wind farms.
With technology similar to on-shore windmills, developers say the turbines should create enough electricity to power 10, 000 homes on Anglesey.
Mr. Yudhoyono, who came to power that year, relied on the PKS and other Islamic parties to shore up his coalition.
Now all 14 of its 'berths' - areas of sea connected by cable to the shore - are booked, a sign of growing interest in this fledgling source of power.
Tidal turbines can be installed closer to shore than wave energy equipment, and thanks to the regularity of the tides, tidal power offers a more stable renewable energy source than, say, intermittent wind or solar.
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Thuggishness alone may keep Mr Castro in power for the moment, but the regime will not last long if he fails to shore up the other two pillars.
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