Additional feeder redundancy also ensures reserve capacity to sustain power if multiple feeders fail.
If the forecast differs from the actual generation, the shortfall must be met by using reserve capacity.
The extensive exploration costs incurred by these companies annually is targeted at ensuring enough reserve capacity to cater to the global fuel demand.
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Right now the nation has 760 gigawatts of power plants to meet current consumption, with another 154 in reserve capacity to maintain grid reliability.
Only a modest amount of reserve capacity is needed to keep the system from going down when one or a few power plants crash.
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If widely adopted, the Controller technology would reduce the spinning reserve capacity needed significantly and allow the grid to operate at a higher capacity.
But much of that new output, and most of the reserve capacity, is in the form of heavier oils that are costlier to refine and for which there is less thirst.
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For generations, the stability of global oil supplies has been guaranteed by Saudi Arabia's reserve capacity that could be relied on to make up for any shocks to those supplies due to political unrest or other factors.
Kitts-Nevis National MAB Committee has a key role and functions including, Advocacy and support of sustainable development, promotion and monitoring of scientific research, planning and management of Biosphere reserves, approval of Biosphere Reserve Proposals, capacity development of the local communities in resource management and environmental protection, the conservation of biological diversity.
Saudi Arabia has its own version of a strategic petroleum reserve, in the form of spare production capacity, which could make up for most if not all Iranian exports.
His strident essays for that book, which he has never repudiated or withdrawn from publication, were echoed by his actions in the 1990s as a principal supporter of financial deregulation in his capacity as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
According to the Federal Reserve, there has been a steady increase in industrial production and capacity utilization since the end of last year.
Tightening or loosing the availability of capital, which the Federal Reserve has power over, will not change the balance of oil production to refinery capacity or make the oil producing nations politically stable.
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American Express, as well as Visa and MasterCard, are expectant of Federal Reserve regulation on credit card transactions which could limit their interchange fee, or their capacity to charge different fees to different vendors.
The main aims of this tour are to strengthen Sustainable Development and Governance in the Tara River Basin Biosphere Reserve and in the Durmitor World Heritage site in Montenegro and to reinforce the management capacity of the UNESCO designated sites.
The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today announcing coordinated actions to enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system.
"Now in its third year, the Federal Reserve's review of capital plans provides a regular, structured, and comparative way to promote and assess the capacity of large bank holding companies to understand and manage their capital positions, with particular emphasis on risk-measurement practices, " Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo said.
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