Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nukes cost $200 per kilowatt (kW) to build, coal plants around $175. But nuclear construction prices quickly began climbing. By the late 1970s, Komanoff says, nukes cost $700 per kW, compared with $500 for coal plants. Now, with post-T.M.I. requirements pushing the price of nuclear construction even higher, coal plants are clearly more economical. According to Komanoff, a coal-fired plant with state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment can be built today for around $1,200 per kW; a nuclear plant costs $3,000 per kW. Says Komanoff: "The power industry may really have made only...
...called take-or-pay contracts with 88 utilities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada that signed up to buy electricity from Whoops. These agreements, dubbed "hell or high water" deals, committed the utilities to pay for Projects 4 and 5, even if they never produced a kilowatt...
...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...
...proposed a seven-state organization in the South to produce cheap electricity, support the development of local manufacturing, increase navigable waters and control the flooding that regularly devastated the valley of the Tennessee River. By 1940 the 21 hydroelectric plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority were delivering 3.19 billion kilowatt hours of electricity at about half the average national rate and the TVA was playing a major part in the economic revival of the South. The spread of low-cost electricity was also the mission of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which loaned money at low interest (3%) to cooperative...
...marijuana will be pulverized and blown into the plant's furnaces, which now burn either natural gas or oil. Company officials figure that each ton of pot equals 2.7 bbl. of oil and will produce 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity-only a tiny fraction of the plant's daily output, so pot power will not significantly reduce customers' bills. Officials also believe that smoke from the generator's 350-ft. stack will not turn on passersby. But just to be sure, they plan to conduct test burns. Until then, the Miami News last week advised...