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Base-load Plant Defined

A power plant built to operate around-the-clock. Such plants tend to have low operating costs and high capital costs and are best utilized by running continuously. Coal- and nuclear-fueled plants are typical base load plants.

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Google Gets Hot for Geothermal Energy

Published September 5, 2008, 8:32 am, KBZK Bozeman

The boiling heat bubbling deep within the Earth is a potential resource that is tapped in only a few places around the globe. Now, a Google charity is promoting development of this geothermal energy with new technologies. 

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Tata Power acquiring 11.4% stake in Australian geothermal energy co

Published September 4, 2008, 11:43 am, The Hindu

Mumbai, Sept. 4 Tata Power on Thursday announced it would acquire a 11.4 per cent stake in Geodynamics Ltd, an Australian company specialising in geothermal energy, for Rs 165 crore. Geothermal energy is the natural heat emanating from within the earth.

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Tata Power Decides To acquire 10% Stake In Geodynamics For A$44.1 Mln.

Published September 4, 2008, 4:37 am, Nasdaq

(RTTNews) - Tata Power Company Ltd., India's largest integrated private power utility, announced that it has decided to acquire 29.4 million ordinary shares of Geodynamics Ltd., a listed Australia-based company specialized in geothermal energy and enhanced Geothermal Systems or EGS. The shares will represent 11.4% of current issued capital or 10% of the increased share capital after allotment by ...

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Exelon Generation Submits License Application for New Nuclear Energy Plant

Published September 3, 2008, 12:19 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Exelon Generation today submitted a Combined Construction and Operating License application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking authorization to build and operate a new dual-unit nuclear generating facility in Victoria County, Texas.

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PSALM to sell 3 Napocor plants

Published September 2, 2008, 9:05 am, Philstar.com via Yahoo! Philippines News

The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) will sell this year three decommissioned power facilities of the National Power Corp. (Napocor).

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Hydro is back as waters rise behind new Highland dam

Published September 1, 2008, 6:14 pm, The Herald

Some say it will take a month to fill, others two months. But since lunchtime yesterday the peaty waters of the River Tarff and a host of other rivers and burns have been rising behind the new multi-million pound dam high in the hills above Fort Augustus at the south-western end of Loch Ness.

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The search for new power sources

Published August 30, 2008, 11:06 pm, Santa Fe New Mexican

Photo: About 91 customers in Santa Fe area homes generate some of their electricity from solar energy. Retired physics professor Jim Garland powers his Eldorado-area home, studio and guest house with a solar photovoltaic system.

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