If a factory had its own generating plant, it would be allowed to sell any excess juice to whomever it wished.
The turbines passed a G59 test last week, which looks at safety standards required for the connection of a generating plant to existing distribution systems.
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Minnesota is subject to back-to-back Regional Haze regulations, whereby EPA is claiming authority to regulate regional haze twice in succession at its Sherburne County generating plant.
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Not surprisingly, because of regulations and the authorities' bureaucratic foot-dragging, the Golden State's utilities haven't built a major new generating plant in more than a decade.
If all goes according to plan, Statkraft hopes to have a full-scale plant operational, generating up to 100 megawatts a year within seven years' time.
Ms. PATTON: The Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Generating Station collectively discharge some 77, 000 tons of smog and haze-forming oxides of nitrogen each year, and that is comparable to the amount of pollution that would be discharged from some 80 million motor vehicles.
It calculates how many pounds of carbon dioxide his travels are generating, so the company can then plant enough trees (or use an increasingly popular alternative like methane capture) to offset the damage to the environment.
The company has been operating a prototype plant in New Zealand capable of generating 16, 000 gallons of carbon monoxide ethanol a year.
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"It is good news that the plant will be able to continue generating electricity for another two years, offering much needed peace of mind for the workers and their families, " he said.
The charm offensive also explains, without ever using the words "incinerator" or "burn", that the proposed "thermal conversion plant" will also pay its way by generating electricity.
With sorghum, the ethanol distillery can put the bagasse (plant stalks) to use as a boiler fuel, generating heat for distillation and steam for electricity.
We also checked out a new ultracapacitor that can charge a power drill in 60 seconds, and researchers are working on energy-generating fabrics that can transform your t-shirt into a power plant.
With Unit 4 now reconnected to the electricity grid, plant engineers will try to work the unit back up to generating 370 megawatts.
Even though the plant shut down the production of electricity, the nuclear reaction keeps generating heat.
Recently the plant was given permission move fuel from Reactor 2 to Reactor 1 to continue generating electricity.
But the plant had been closed over the Easter holidays so had enough fuel to continue generating electricity through the five-hour demonstration.
The existing Wylfa plant, which has been producing energy since 1971, is set to continue generating electricity until the fuel runs out or September 2014, whichever comes first.
Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.
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These patterns of action, either the well constructed image plant or the viral propagation of a fetishistic content type, are both highly effective at generating disproportionate reactions.
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The plant is set to open in 2016 with rubbish transported to Severnside by rail and burnt, generating electricity for the National Grid.
If the demonstration plant works as well as hoped, the plan will be to build combined electricity and hydrogen generating stations in locations where there are geological formations containing saline water overlain by a thick caprock serving as a seal.
Asked about the government's strategy, Mr Davey said on-shore wind farms with potential generating capacity of a seven gigawatts (GW) were currently seeking planning consent, in addition to eleven gigawatts of plant either already built or approved.
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