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...with a capacity to light as many as 139,000 homes. This was no feel-good exercise. Wind power was chosen according to the cold calculus of business. It will produce electricity over the 20-year life of the facility for an estimated 3[cents] to 6[cents] a kilowatt-hour (kw-h). That compares with a recent average of 7.6[cents] a kw-h charged by Texas utilities. Using a similar calculation in late March of this year, the Public Utility Commission in Colorado chose wind over gas to power a new generating station built by Excel in Lamar...
...estimates that every kilowatt-hour ofelectricity saved prevents the emission of 1.5pounds of carbon dioxide, 5.8 grams of sulfurdioxide, and 2.5 grams of nitrogen oxides. Thesethree gases comprise the bulk of air pollution
...beginning of 1985, and by law he must select one of those by early 1987. Government geologists have narrowed their choices to nine locations in six states: Washington, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Waste-producing nuclear power companies, which pay a levy of 1 mill per kilowatt-hour of generated electricity, contribute some $40 million a month to support the program...
...small businesses. Long-range generating capacity is estimated at 400 megawatts, or up to 25% of the state's requirements. But no windmill is now cost competitive with oil. An 80-megawatt facility on Oahu, scheduled for completion in 1984, currently projects a loss of 7? on every kilowatt-hour...
Although "The Energy Game"'s beguiling simplicity belies a sophisticated research effort, it represents a microcosm of MR&A's forecasting efforts and Westinghouse's public relations front. The corporation lives and dies by kilowatt-hour sales, and shrinking demand announces the twilight of the moribund nuclear industry. Placed on the offensive, the firm's nuclear divisions must convince utilities, the government, and the public, that future energy wants require the construction of more reactors. For MR&A employees, justifying nuclear power is an article of faith; almost every task the group undertakes relates to this objective...