Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal is far from dead. Fair Share, a consumer lobbying group, collected 68,495 signatures on the petition calling for uniform rates per kilowatt hour for all customers. Fair Share must start a new petition and gather about 10,000 signatures to get the referendum on the ballot in November...
...cost of a nuclear power plant planned for Midland, Mich., in 1968 was estimated to be $260 million; the plant, not yet finished, is now expected to cost $1.4 billion. In total, says Power Plant Builder Leonard Reichle of Ebasco Services, Inc., a nuke costs $1,005 per kilowatt of generating capacity, while a coal-fired plant costs between $690 and $910 per kilowatt...
...rural America. In the 1920s and '30s, thousands of them supplied electricity for Midwest farms. Then the cheap power brought by the New Deal's rural electrification program finally made most of the durable fixtures obsolete. During World War II, a giant 110-ft, 1,250-kilowatt wind-driven generator built on a hill called Grandpa's Knob outside Rutland, Vt., created a flurry of renewed interest in wind power -until one of the monster machine's eight-ton blades, weakened by metal fatigue, tore off and hurtled 750 ft. into the air before crash-landing...
...Almost 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity are being generated annually, still far below the design goal of 10 billion...
...rock, pumping in water and drawing out the resulting steam through a second hole. There are technical problems, chief among them the necessity for deep (16,400 ft.) drilling. But the lure is that electricity from some geothermal sources can be produced for less than 10 mills per kilowatt hour-easily competitive with oil, coal or nuclear plants...