The use of gas fuel, combined with the planned deregulation of power generation, should eventually cut electricity costs.

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In recent years, this dynamic has become especially problematic as technological advances have accelerated market penetration of customer-sited solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power and other genres of distributed generation.

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China is of course planning to employ other sources, like wind power, hydropower and nuclear, but the sooty black rock is expected to represent as much power generation as all those others combined.

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Their energy consumption was combined with data on the CO2 intensity of the power generation mix in different countries to reveal the emissions resulting from BEV operation.

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And combined heat and power, which allows companies and householders to use the heat created by power generation as well as the electricity it produces, is booming.

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