India's first power generation company was the private Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) started in 1899.
Tight compliance schedules create additional challenges for grid operators whose job is to keep electric supply and demand in balance.
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Another customer of ours is Emerson, a global leader in electric power supply.
Nuclear plants provide about 20% of the U.S. electric power supply, but most of the 104 operating reactors date back to the 1960s and '70s.
There is not enough of it in the reservoirs banking the three hydro-electric dams that supply Kabul with power.
Finally, a 1 kW electric radioisotope power supply running on Plutonium 238 (Pu-238) would kick in to power an ion thruster engine.
Apart from an ancient aluminium complex, Montenegro's main industrial hope lies on the drawing-board: a chain of hydro-electric plants that could supply power to Albania and Greece and across the Adriatic to Italy.
Sharp thinks farms of these units, much like wind farms, will supply factories and electric utilities with power.
Consumption was expected to exceed the maximum supply by Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Therefore there is no wonder the numerous hydro-electric projects in India cannot supply their intended power for the country.
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On the day General Electric announced that it will supply the wind turbines for what's planned to be the world's largest wind farm, it also found out that it will have a new but familiar rival in the wind business.
Mr Phillips-Davies joined Perth-based SSE's predecessor company Southern Electric in 1997 before becoming energy supply director in 2002.
It involves using cars to supply a reserve of electric power that can smooth out minute-to-minute shortages in the transmission grid.
Jiangsu is expecting especially severe shortages as the result of an estimated 16% deficit between supply and demand for electric power this summer.
In fact, a battery system can perform more than a dozen tasks, from sending short bursts of power to stabilize the electric grid to releasing a steady supply of electricity over a longer period of time when there is a lot of demand for power.
The Tokyo metropolitan government is trying to break its contract to supply power to the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Originally a letter of intent, the agreement to supply 200MW to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is now a formal contract.
Today, 1, 387 coal-fired plants supply 42 percent of all electric generation.
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The real culprits are diesel burning trucks and buses (many of which are still operating at Euro III emission levels), factories, and the coal-fired power plants that will supply the electricity for the electric vehicles.
Because utilities and state regulators are putting a premium on solar energy when they evaluate and approve power purchase agreements even though solar electricity production typically fluctuates and makes it more difficult to balance the supply and demand in an electric grid.
AV's industrial fast charging systems support thousands of electric materials handling vehicles in mission-critical supply chains for Fortune 500 enterprises.
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Karen Owers, 44, from Aston, needs a ramp for her electric wheelchair but RH Buses does not always supply one.
But in a country with an unreliable power supply and a base of almost no electric vehicles, that goal may be elusive.
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But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.
If significant changes to the electric system are not made, it is possible that supply might eclipse demand for up to 1000 hours per year by 2020 (out of the 8760 hours in a year), according to Jen Moller Birkebaek, a vice president at Energinet.dk, quoted in the NY Times.
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At the same time, an electric grid runs smoothly only when there is a balance of supply and demand.
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In the year through March, electricity demand exceeded supply by 10.1%, according to the Central Electric Authority of India.
In electric trains, the braking energy is converted into electricity and fed back into the overhead power supply.
On July 15, 1996, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order No. 13010, in which he identified eight infrastructure systems critical to the nation's survival: telecommunications, electric power systems, oil and gas storage, transportation, banking and finance, storage and transportation, water supply systems, and emergency services (including medical, police, fire and rescue, and continuity of government).
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