Even in a low-priced electricity world, fueled by cheap shale gas, the forces of innovation are on the move, and they are already being unleashed.
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When I was six months old, the first nuclear-generated electricity in the world was produced there.
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According to the ECF, more than 50% of the plants that will be providing the world with electricity in 2020 have yet to be built.
Pierre and Pam Omidyar are bringing electricity to the developing world.
Can you imagine now our world without electricity and without cars?
As you walk across the plank that connects Brooklyn to lower Manhattan, you are transported from a world of electricity, hot water, and street life, to one that feels like a dark movie set.
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Hydropower produces about 15% of the world's electricity, compared with 3% for other renewables.
In 2010 nuclear power provided 13% of the world's electricity, down from 18% in 1996.
For example, three-fifths of the world's electricity runs motors, and half their shaft power runs pumps and fans.
Two countries alone generate 46% of the world's electricity--the U.S. and China.
These are past outlays for things like uneconomic power plants that utilities may recoup as they enter the new world of deregulated electricity.
In alternative energy news, the remote Pacific Island territory of Tokelau (population: 1, 411), which previously relied on diesel generators for electricity, officially became the world's first solar-powered nation.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
Mirant, which owns power plants throughout the world and sells electricity to utilities and big corporate consumers, is suffering the Enron effect because of its energy trading and from temporarily depressed power prices.
If solar power is to make up much of the world's electricity output in future, as supporters of alternative energy hope it will, a lot of land will be needed for the power stations.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
Germany, which in 2011 produced 5% of the world's nuclear electricity, is abandoning it, as are some smaller countries.
Nearly 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity.
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In a world in which our electricity is delivered without the whirr of a wind turbine, we need to be more creative about getting consumers to pay attention to energy use.
He grew up in a village that lacked indoor plumbing and electricity, but like millions of others throughout the world, he believed in the story of America.
"Given that world energy demand, and more particularly electricity demand, is increasing strongly, we need sources of electricity supply that are safe, affordable, with abundant fuel and are environmental benign, " he said.
In a collaborative effort with SunPower Eaton and Whirlpool Ford is trying to show the world how it can drastically lower its electricity bills through the use of technology.
The handset, which also features a dust and splash-proof keypad and an FM radio, has been primarily launched as a low-end phone that would appeal to customers in the developing world who may have infrequent access to electricity.
The world adds 100 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity every year, much of it in China and India.
Opened in 1871, Souter was the first lighthouse in the world designed and built to be powered by electricity, with its foghorn kept in working condition by a dedicated team of local volunteers.
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