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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tragedy in Japan is still fresh. But what made it worst is when the nuclear power plant in Japan exploded. The event released massive amounts of radiation into the community and has infected a lot of people. Today‚ there is a proposal to open the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. I admit that I am afraid of the fact that the scenario that happened in Japan might happen to us Filipinos as well. For me‚ I do not agree with the proposal. Opening the nuclear power plant in Bataan was proposed because it offers
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Student’s name dawood Instructor’s name dawood If you could be anything you wanted‚ what would you be and why? It is a truth that every thing in the world has its specific energy and symbolic meaning as well as some things occupy a significant place in human hearts. So‚ answering the question what I could be having an opportunity to change the appearance and material body‚ I would become a tree. There are many reasons for such a choice‚ and explaining these reasons I would like to dwell
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I – BSBA Date: August 31‚ 2011 Chapter I Nuclear Power Plant Introduction: Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and do useful work. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world’s energy and 13–14% of the world’s electricity‚ with the U.S.‚ France‚ and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity. In 2007‚ the IAEA reported there were 439 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world‚ operating in 31 countries
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Thermal power plants are one of the main sources of electricity in both industrialized and developing countries. These plants have drawn flak on consumption of non-renewable sources of energy at a rapid rate and also since they release huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The anti-greenhouse gas activists are calling for thermal power to be replaced by other cleaner sources of energy. Functioning of thermal power plant: In a thermal power plant‚ one of coal‚ oil or natural gas
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With reference to a conflict over the use of a local resource that you studies‚ discuss the extent to which all interest groups involved can be satisfied with its outcome (40 marks) Introduction: Definition of a conflict Disagreement caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs‚ values‚ and interests between people. Examples of local resources Land‚ water‚ objects… Briefly explain why some interest groups can be satisfied with the development Gives jobs (economics)‚ makes country look
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References: * Lakhoua MN. SCADA applications in thermal power plants. International Journal of the Physical Sciences Vol. 5(6)‚ pp. 1175-1182‚ June 2010 * Lakhoua MN. Application of Functional Analysis Techniques and Supervision of Thermal Power Plants. * Lakhoua MN (2009c). Supervision of a counting system of the natural gas of a thermal power plant. J. Eng. Technol. Res. ISSN: 2006- 9790. Open Access wwJournals. 1(9): 188-193. * http://www.youtube
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The Dulhasti Power Plant 1. o Harsh geographical conditions pose challenges to producing accurate cost estimations due to the unforeseen costs of supplying the area with adequate resources. For instance‚ the Dulhasti Power Plant is in a region that has inadequate infrastructure to support such a large undertaking. Rather than simply supplying the project with raw materials such as concrete‚ wood‚ stone and steel via trucking or railway it had to rely on said shipments to be brought in by aircraft
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Evaluate the claim that the use of imprisonment should be reduced or abolished. Imprisonment is the harshest sanction that can be used by the courts when deemed necessary in punishing those who partake in criminal offences in this present day. When imprisonment first developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth century it was initially a place where people were held before trail or before punishment‚ imprisonment itself was not used as a form of punishment. At this period of time prisons were very
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLICY Contents Carbon Cap and Trade Carbon Offsets Carbon Taxes Clean Development Mechanism Climate Change and Food Situation Dealing with the Uncertainty about Climate Change Double Dividend Economics of Forest Carbon Sequestration as a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) International Climate Treaties and Coalition Building Carbon Cap and Trade G Wagner‚ Environmental Defense Fund‚ New York‚ NY‚ USA; Columbia University’s
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