To allow someone else to specialise in the generation of electricity and pipe it to you.
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It provided a means of converting uranium to plutonium for the generation of electricity.
On top of that, consumer prices declined in April and May as did profits at state firms and the generation of electricity.
The latest generation of electricity pylons are, in the eyes of some, at least, things of beauty in their own right.
And a quiet milestone was passed earlier this year when gas equalled coal as the most widely used fuel for the generation of electricity.
Pols and power bureaucrats have been seized with the notion that the generation of electricity can be free of bureaucratic oversight but that the transmission and distribution of power must remain in a regulatory straitjacket.
The resort prides itself on its environmental initiative, which has led to the generation of clean electricity from geothermal heat produced by the hot spring.
But in terms of generation and distribution, electricity is 33% efficient and generation and distribution of natural gas is about 98% efficient.
The company manages the generation and distribution of electricity across Afghanistan.
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The US Department of Energy has underwritten more than a dozen demonstration projects using superconducting magnets, cables and wires, all directed towards more efficient and compact generation and use of electricity.
Japan should end the regional monopolies, separate the generation and transmission of electricity and establish a tough regulator to oversee the terms under which incumbents allow newcomers to connect to the grid.
Coal still accounts for 49% of electricity generation, little changed from a decade ago.
Solar, accounting for only 1% of the country's electricity generation, has a lot of room to grow, he says.
The demand curve for physical oil is grounded in the real economics of electricity generation and powering factories and driving trucks.
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The 50% decline in gas prices since 2008 implies an increase in gas-fired electricity generation of a bit more than 3%.
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Conservation International support the development of electricity generation for domestic consumption and export as these are critical components of development for Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
But past violations and unexplained traces of (potentially militarily useful) highly enriched uranium suggest that Iran is using the cover of electricity generation to acquire nuclear-weapons capability.
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An auction by PJM Interconnection that measures forward supply of electricity generation continued to paint an upbeat assessment of utility suppliers, who it said continue to add generating capacity and make investments to enhance existing power output.
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However, Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse highlighted the poll suggesting that 77% of SNP supporters, 76% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 68% of Labour supporters and 55% of Conservative supporters "support the continuing development of wind power as part of a mix of renewable and conventional forms of electricity generation".
Electricity generation from renewables (including conventional hydro) grew from approximately 9 percent of the U.S. electricity generation mix in 2007 to 13 percent in 2012.
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There would be no more exclusive franchises for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity within fixed territories.
The country relies on coal for 80% of its electricity generation, and is a major coal exporter.
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The U.S. has also championed a number of electricity-generation projects within Pakistan such as helping renovate hydropower dams.
Costs of all electricity generation have risen markedly in recent years, but the highest rise has been seen for offshore wind, says UKERC.
If economic growth carries on at the current rate in China, it will require up to 1, 000 gigawatts of new electricity generation in China.
Renewable energy production (excluding hydro power), meanwhile, more than doubled between 2004 and 2011 thought it still accounts for just under 5% of total electricity generation.
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America, the world's second-biggest coal producer after China, has mammoth reserves and a power industry that is turning against coal (currently responsible for almost half of domestic electricity generation).
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They accounted for 19% of global electricity generation in 2011 which according to the report is "broadly on track to meet a 2C scenario by 2020" for a globally altered climate.
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In fact, coal and natural gas will likely remain the two most popular sources of energy and account for 65% of the electricity generation by 2040, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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For several years now, the company has taken an active role in lobbying for more government spending and stronger regulations to compel a move away from using coal as the largest source of our electricity generation.
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