A century later the picture was completely different: by then, the world had an electric industry, and a quarter of its generating capacity was water powered.

一个世纪后，情况完全不同了：这时，世界上已经有了电力工业，其四分之一的发电量是水力驱动的。

youdao

Turbines at the Barrage DE la rance electric power generating station in France create a whirlpool in the rance River.

安装在法国兰斯发电站拦河坝上的涡轮机构成了兰斯河上的漩涡。

youdao

That would mean a loss of about 50% of the electric generating capacity in the US.

那意味着美国将失去约50%的发电总量。

youdao

Wind and solar as a source of renewable energy is a goal that most electric-generating companies, including General Electric (GE), Duke Energy (DUK), and Northwestern Energy (NEW), are hotly pursuing.

FORBES: Power Opportunity for GE, et al: How To Store Wind/Solar Renewable Energy

In addition, Japan has lost a substantial fraction of their electric-power generating capacity.

FORBES: The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails

In that role he oversaw the privatisation of Britain's electricity industry as energy minister in the Conservative government and approved Enron's bid for permission to build one of the first gas-fired electric generating plants in Britain.

CNN: Enron: UK press chief stands down