Rotating outages are controlled, temporary interruptions of electrical service initiated by each utility when supplies of reserve power are exhausted.

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Earlier this month, Debbie Dooley, another co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, urged the state's elected utility regulators on the Public Service Commission, all Republicans, to force Georgia Power to use more solar energy.

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It ran at 90% of capacity in 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration, and Central Vermont Public Service says it's the most reliable source of power the utility has access to.

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Major software companies, including Oracle, IBM, Google and even Amazon.com, are all beginning to offer their own forms of utility computing applications, such as software-as-a-service and rented storage and processing power.

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