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.
It provided a means of converting uranium to plutonium for 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.
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.
On top of that, consumer prices declined in April and May as did profits at state firms and the generation of electricity.
Driven by falling turbine prices and the rush to take advantage of production tax credits (which were set to expire but were renewed by Congress in early January), wind energy was the fastest growing source of new electricity generation in the United States in 2012.
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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.
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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To allow someone else to specialise in the generation of electricity and pipe it to you.
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And a quiet milestone was passed earlier this year when gas equalled coal as the most widely used fuel for the generation of electricity.
However, the installed base of solar thermal electricity generation uses twice the water as coal and five times the amount as gas-fired plants.
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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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The use of gas fuel, combined with the planned deregulation of power generation, should eventually cut electricity costs.
Solar, accounting for only 1% of the country's electricity generation, has a lot of room to grow, he says.
"There is no way back, " says Michael Wunnerlich, who's on the management board of the BDEW, which represents the electricity generation industry.
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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The additional nuclear power plants would also have the advantage of being less vulnerable to fuel price changes than coal or gas-fired generation, helping to enhance the security of electricity supplies.
"This is all about the community taking charge of local, renewable electricity generation, " said Robin Mewes, managing director at Rooftop Consulting Ltd, one of the groups behind the new cooperative.
In the UK, during 2012, electricity generation from coal-fired power stations actually increased to almost 40% of total production, as the price of gas soared, and gas-fired electricity generation was reduced.
The company manages the generation and distribution of electricity across Afghanistan.
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In conventional electricity generation, roughly one third or so of the energy potential contained in the fuel is converted into electricity.
"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.
Instead it has ten regional monopolies (TEPCO is one), which hog 97% of the market for electricity generation and transmission.
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.
Although Dr Michel has not yet applied his idea to an entire chip, he has shown that the electricity-generation part of the process can be made to work perfectly well in a system of channels like those found in a 3D chip.
However, it is a good idea to conserve the global carbon stocks and not to squander it on electricity generation, which would have the side effect of reducing CO2 emissions.
The EIA in its Annual Energy Outlook 2010 report estimates that in 2008, natural gas accounted for 21% for the total electricity generation in the U.S., with the share of coal being around 48%.
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There would be no more exclusive franchises for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity within fixed territories.
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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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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