This saving is more than paid for by the value of the saved generating capacity, so the net cost of saving the gas itself is less than zero.
The spike in prices in some PJM pricing zones probably resulted from reliance on higher-cost, quick-start generating units, which were used initially to replace the lost generating capacity.
Official figures indicate that 25% of the power generating capacity of new solar plants in 2011 went unused because the plants could not maintain a connection with the electric grid.
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In the first half of this year, 165 new power generators were added in 33 states, but among the 10 states with the bulk of new generating capacity, "most of the new capacity uses natural gas or renewable energy, " the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported in July.
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The first area, planning for the expansion of power generating capacity, is beyond the scope of this piece but the second and third is not.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said the UK government was determined to attract investors to provide affordable low-carbon energy as some of the country's generating capacity is lost over the coming years.
The country certainly needs more generating capacity, especially of the low-carbon kind.
Earlier this month, the energy regulator Ofgem warned that the UK risks running out of energy generating capacity in the winter of 2015-16.
CSFB's Meyer expects Wendy's and McDonald's to further expand their menu options to maximize the revenue-generating capacity of each franchise.
The company expects to ship products with 40 megawatts worth of annual generating capacity during the first quarter.
Those fiascos were the result not of a shortage of generating capacity, but rather of the failings of an antiquated grid.
Last year a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said EGS could open up an additional 100, 000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. by 2050, up from 2, 000 MW today.
They'll be pushed up by higher fuel input costs, the cost of renewing generating capacity and subsidies to renewables in some countries.
The report on security of gas supply points out that share of generating capacity is on the way up, from 40% to 60%.
The new company will have a generating capacity of about 57, 000 megawatts, outstripping Southern Company as the largest utility company in the U.S. (See If the Recovery Fizzles, Seek Safety in Utilities).
Also New England has added 155 megawatts of wind generating capacity since the summer of 2012.
Installed wind-generating capacity around the world grew 20% last year to 47 gigawatts (measured by peak output).
Britain risks running out of energy generating capacity in the winter of 2015-16, according to the energy regulator Ofgem.
The IPP deals were made in the early 1990s, when the country was desperate for generating capacity amid blackouts of as long as 12 hours a day.
Duke Energy has approximately 35, 000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Carolinas and the Midwest as well as natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky.
If TXU has to call into service its "mothballed" natural gas plants, or if new generating capacity in the state isn't enough to meet demand--causing prices to skyrocket--those additional facilities would have mattered quite a bit.
The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.
China is rapidly expanding its coal and natural gas generating capacity and will accelerate the process if oil prices remain high, Littell says.
Some 20% of the solar installations would be built by 2014 under the plan and the rest by 2020 to a final generating capacity of 42 GWe.
The wind farm is expected to produce as much as 468 megawatts of renewable energy, which is about 3.5% of the 13, 300-megawatts total generating capacity in Massachusetts.
The Energy Group owned Eastern, with 3.1 million gas and electric customers and 6, 700 megawatts of generating capacity, as well as Peabody Coal, the world's largest private coal producer.
We believe it has power-generating capacity which, based on the two sets of panels, that probably makes it comparable to the old Mir space station as opposed to simply the Soyuz capsule.
"The underlying trends driving their cash-flow-generating capacity are no different now than they were a day ago, " he said.
The UK government says up to 26GW of new gas generating capacity could be required by 2030.
Thanks to such advances, the cost of a fuel cell has already fallen from the stratosphere to only a few thousand dollars per kilowatt of generating capacity.
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