Merchant power plants differ from traditional rate-based power plants as to: 1) how they are financed and 2) where they sell the electricity they generate. A merchant power plant is funded by investors and sells electricity in the competitive wholesale power market. Since a merchant plant is not required to serve any specific retail consumers‚ consumers are not obligated to pay for the construction‚ operations or maintenance of the plant. A traditional rate-based power plant‚ on the other hand
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these modern times‚ are nuclear power plants feasible to every nation around the world? How about in a nation experiencing the toll of depletion of resources‚ destruction of nature and poverty at the same time; is it still an answer for economic growth? Is the construction of nuclear power plants an aid for the spur of development of a country or a growing threat to the environment? Do nuclear power plants serve the people best or destroy the nature best? Nuclear power plants are said to have drastic
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The Constitution nowhere contains an express injunction to preserve the boundaries of the three broad powers it grants‚ nor does it expressly enjoin maintenance of a system of checks and balances. Yet‚ it does grant to three separate branches the powers to legislate‚ to execute‚ and to adjudicate‚ and it provides throughout the document the means by which each of the branches could resist the blandishments and incursions of the others. The Framers drew up our basic charter against a background rich
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and Cons of Wind Power There is no perfect energy source. Each and every one has its own rewards and drawbacks. In this paper I will explore the advantages and disadvantages of wind power. Today the world needs to look at the different natural energy sources available to us. Global warming could be due to our energy craving lifestyle‚ while considering this possibility let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of wind power. It’s been said
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Separation of powers is an act of vesting the legislative‚ executive‚ and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. (Losco and Baker 2013‚ pg 23) The United States is focused on this thought of discrete branches of government with distinct responsibilities. Power is divided in the U.S. government in two significant ways. Originally‚ power is distributed amongst the state and national government‚ and following‚ power is shared between the three branches of national government. Separation
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VALUE ISSUES IN DECISION-MAKING ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION: AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS Report drawn up for Afrosearch by Prof. Johan Hattingh and Me. Leanne Seeliger Unit for Environmental Ethics University of Stellenbosch March 2002 1 Report on Value issues in decision-making about nuclear power generation. Final Version: 15 March 2002. Prepared for Afrosearch by the Unit for Environmental Ethics‚ University of Stellenbosch. This Report consists of 98 pages in total‚ including
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sector. Power line communication has many new service possibilities on the data transferring via power lines without use extra cables. AMR is a very important application in these possibilities due to every user connected each other via modems using power lines. AMR is a technique to facilitate remote readings energy consumption. Improving the electrical power supply to households as a big issue. The government has set a specific goal to raise the distribution rate of electrical power supply
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adversity. William lives on a farm in the village of Masitala in Malawi. Life for him‚ his family‚ and the villagers is not easy because they have to deal with hunger‚ drought‚ deforestation‚ and many other hardships. In addition‚ there are frequent power outages throughout the country. ”In Malawi and most parts of Africa that don’t have electricity for television‚ the radio is our only connection to the world outside the village.”(67) William’s family also struggles to pay his school tuition. Even though
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energy sources leading. Wind power refers to the energy extracted from wind through the use of windmills and wind turbines. The cost of wind-generated electric power recently has dropped quite a bit. Since 2004‚ wind power has become the least expensive alternative energy source to fossil fuels. Wind power is also growing quickly and becoming a practical replacement for fossil fuels because it is unlimited‚ clean‚ efficient and does not produce any byproduct. The power in the wind is extracted by
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has led to renewed interest in nuclear energy. To simplify a nuclear energy facility or a nuclear reactor is very much like any other power plant except that it produces heat through a process called nuclear fission. The heat produced from the nuclear fission is done through a radioactive element called uranium. The heat created is turned into steam which then powers a turbine‚ to generate electricity. This process is purported to be carbon emission free compared to traditional non-renewable energy
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