Under Babar's tutelage the Punjab government is installing several small hydro and solar power plants.
All-in-all, nuclear power plants still meet the most stringent design criteria of any structure.
Incredibly strong and, fortunately, within the design limit for structures like nuclear power plants.
In spite of huge gas reserves, Libya's power plants mostly run on diesel fuel.
They combined skills to push for support of rock quarries, landfills, hospitals and power plants.
U.S. power plants currently produce 50% more power from natural gas than during the year 2000.
By comparison, power plants typically take several minutes to respond to instability on the power grid.
Iran does not have any nuclear power plants, and thus does not need enriched uranium anyway.
Demonstrators chanted "shame, shame" and called on commissioners to take over the power plants themselves.
Scrubbers used in thermal power plants, for instance, require limestone to capture sulphur from their exhaust.
And powdered lignin can be added to pulverized coal for burning in power plants.
Inspectors checked out several nuclear power plants in the region and found no problems.
The deregulation plan also forced utilities to sell their power plants to out-of-state companies.
Until recently, it was also cheap to deliver electrons from power plants to customers.
For instance, it's best that we not build extra power plants that run on fossil fuel.
Of all these emissions that enter the atmosphere, the power plants account for less than 0.5%.
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Typically, power plants release CO2 into the atmosphere through exhaust systems referred to as flues.
It would also generate more energy, since power plants are more efficient than car engines.
In fact, eight of the 10 largest working solar power plants finished construction in 2012.
They will need water for their mills, their power plants and their nearby cotton fields.
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He wanted power plants and a wholesale trading operation to protect his investment from price-cutting regulators.
Simply put, reducing demand is cheaper than building new power plants and transmission lines.
They also say power plants will have to clean up anyway because of other regulatory requirements.
They say they will make it easier for power plants to modernize and produce more energy.
Throughout the country most of the expected additions would be expansions of existing nuclear power plants.
Proposed facilities in Texas score high marks, as do those at existing power plants.
Only a third of the fuel energy burnt in power plants ends up as electricity.
Typical utility-scale biomass power plants burn 300, 000 to 800, 000 tons of wood a year.
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