Personal story: One of my first jobs out of college involved editing technical manuals for the Electric Power Research Institute, a research and development consortium for electric utilities.
The trend towards more twin-engined aircraft drives up the cost of engine development, by boosting the need for power and reliability.
However, the opposition Democratic Alliance has called for the cancellation of power contracts with other Southern African Development Community states.
This is driven by a combination of factors: low power prices due to the development of unconventional gas, the lack of incentives for low-carbon power and rising costs of nuclear power.
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The utility-funded Center for Energy Development has estimated that a third of the existing 200, 000 power sector jobs could be open over the next 5-to-10 years.
Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.
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But President George W. Bush's administration has pushed nuclear power as a fuel of choice for the future through various financial incentives, including the "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative launched five years ago, which provides matching funds for the early stages of new plant development, as well as loan guarantees and tax credits offered to new nuclear developers in 2005's Energy Policy Act, sometimes known as EPACT.
Schreier describes a scene familiar to many inheritors of projects: Although TimeGate was responsible for development, the company had no executive power.
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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the development of an innovative low-power technology for embedded SRAM for application in smart phones and other mobile products.
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Given its population size and huge economic potential, Myanmar is a market that has huge opportunity for growth given the need for infrastructure development, better healthcare facilities and power generation in both urban and rural areas.
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Given the current support for fusion research and development, commercializing fusion power remains many decades away.
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In the U.S., some lawmakers have begun calling for curbs on nuclear power development.
The government has proposed a mix of conservation, natural gas and non-hydro renewables to replace Barseback's power. (Large-scale hydro development was ruled out in the 1970s for environmental reasons.) None meets Sydkraft's criteria.
Lee is the son of Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kwan Yew, who steered the Southeast Asian nation's development for many years while keeping a firm grip on power.
They trade a very narrow conception of power in the international system based on nuclear weapons for a much broader one based on economic integration and development that really brings them much more security in the long term.
The federal government recently announced two initiatives to open up millions of acres of public land for solar power project development, and it highlighted seven wind and solar projects on public land in a press release on Tuesday.
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But councillor Wynne Jones, who has responsibility for regeneration and development, said the council had decided to put all current and expected wind power applications on hold.
The leaders of Japan wanted electric power generation to power their economic development and nuclear power seemed like a natural for a country without much coal or any oil.
"The no-girls-allowed rule keeps women from accessing that power where they can conduct business and rise in professional development and create their own power networks, " said Veronica Arreola, assistant director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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Saddled with out-of-date factories, over-reliance on the North American market and unfashionable trucks, a poor reputation for quality, a dearth of new models in the pipeline and insufficient resources to fund future power-train development, Chrysler is too weak and too small to survive on its own.
It speaks to the power of high school sports that even though some are declaring them irrelevant in terms of athletic development and their necessity for a college scholarship, so many teenagers still want to be a part of a school team.
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