Over the past three years, China has added 200 gigiwatts of coal-fired electric power capacity--equivalent to 20% of the entire installed capacity of the United States.
In line with that, more than half of the total growth in oil demand will be in Asia, and two-thirds of the new electric power capacity.
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.
Nearly 2, 500 megawatts of electric generating capacity tripped offline, including two nuclear reactors in Virginia, after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake rocked vast swaths of the eastern United States on Tuesday.
The study identified future potential electric generation capacity of 158 gigawatts for advanced coal, 78 gigawatts for water and dry-cooled concentrated solar energy and 515 gigawatts for large nuclear reactor plants.
Contrary to what the study seems to suggest, my understanding is that New York City currently has a surplus of electric power capacity and will continue to have a surplus for several years.
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In addition, Japan has lost a substantial fraction of their electric-power generating capacity.
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Add high-capacity gas-electric hybrids (like our C-Max Energi) to the mix and the projected share jumps to 80%.
The current strain shows that the electric power system is at capacity even though there has been little economic growth.
With this action, Nissan becomes the first and only manufacturer in the automotive industry to provide limited warranty coverage for battery capacity loss for electric vehicles.
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The disaster has reduced Tokyo Electric Power Company's capacity to about 34 gigawatts, 20-30% short of peak demand at this time of year, forcing the utility to schedule power cuts.
Restoring the water-retaining capacity of hydro-electric dams by regular dredging and sand and silt removal is the only way left before the authorities.
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We're on track to create 700, 000 jobs across America building advanced batteries for hybrid cars, and modernizing our electric grid, and doubling our capacity to generate clean energy.
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Texas, one of the most promising wind energy states, averages about 16.8% of installed capacity, yet the Electric Reliability Council of Texas assigns a value of 10% due to unpredictability.
The women's lightweight division pits Russia's Sofya Ochigava against Ireland's Katie Taylor, who produced an electric display in front of a capacity crowd of 10, 000 mostly Irish fans at London's ExCel arena.
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As previously mentioned, we are also looking at opportunities to improve the precision of the battery capacity gauge that displays remaining capacity in the LEAFs electric vehicle battery, and intend to have more to report on this topic in the New Year.
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By contrast, the VPP is a demand response platform that manages load on the demand side to create capacity and other products for electric utilities.
The Volt has a 16 kWh capacity, and the all-electric Nissan Leaf provides 24 kWh.
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In Q4, gas prices rose by around 10% due to winter demand and rising demand from electric utility companies, which have been transitioning capacity away from coal towards natural gas.
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.
Under an expanded New Electric Vehicle Limited Warranty, Nissan will protect against capacity loss in LEAF batteries that fall below nine bars, of the available 12 bars displayed on the vehicle's battery capacity gauge, for the first five years or 60, 000 miles in the United States, whichever comes first.
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The fastest-growing technology is grid-connected solar electric power, which saw a 53% increase in installed capacity during 2009.
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The company said it plans to use that money to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate development of batteries for the hybrid electric vehicle market.
China is now the largest exporter of solar panels and is fast expanding its capacity to produce wind turbines and advanced batteries for electric cars.
Moreover, the electric industry has a proven track record of adding additional generating capacity and transmission solutions when and where needed and of coordinating effectively to address reliability concerns.
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Electric vehicles may play a key role as well, as high capacity batteries could ultimately serve to provide regulating capacity, absorbing or supply power back to the grid to flatten out some of the intermittency associated with windpower.
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To keep up with demand, Corning and Asian rivals like Nippon Electric Glass and Asahi Glass have been running at full out and boosting capacity.
China already dominates global market share for electric batters, wind turbines, and solar panels, and is rapidly boosting its capacity to innovate and produce next-generation clean energy technologies.
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Similarly, stimulus investments have helped transform the United States from a bit player in international advanced battery markets to a global competitor with an estimated 20 percent of worldwide manufacturing capacity online by 2012, all while potentially driving down the cost of electric vehicle batteries by up to 70%.
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A. In addition to the coverage provided under the existing Nissan New Electric Vehicle Limited Warranty, this expanded warranty applicable to LEAF vehicles in the United States will protect against capacity loss in LEAF batteries that falls below nine bars, of the available 12 bars displayed on the vehicle's battery capacity gauge, for the first 5 years or 60, 000 miles, whichever comes first.
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