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...create problems of silting and interfere with shipping and wildlife. Though tidal stream generation is still in its infancy, Baird estimates that with the coming of commercial-sized installations within the next five years, the cost of producing electricity for the national grid would be about €.05 per kilowatt - slightly more than gas or coal at current prices, but about the same as wind power. Perhaps the tide is finally starting to turn on fossil fuel consumption...
...year over the past three years. Ironically, Germany has some of the worst wind resources in Europe. But what's made the difference is a government commitment to expanding renewable energy by offering substantial subsidies for wind power. At the moment windmill owners are paid ?.009 per kilowatt hour, compared with a market price closer to ?.002. "It's a real success story in Germany," says Jens-Peter Molly, executive director of the German Wind Energy Institute. "It's a success in all countries where there is a fixed-price system that gives developers security for their investments." Wind power...
...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...
...federal water surges toward their fields, the farmers generate hydroelectric power with it, which they then sell at market rates and pocket the profit. In Washington State, farmers in the Columbia Basin have built seven such plants, which now generate about 500 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, enough to supply power to 50,000 American homes for a year. The electricity is sold to the cities of Seattle and Tacoma and so far has produced nearly $10 million in income since the first plant went on line...
...have to ramp up the energy in terms of getting high enough output," Derby said. Arthur D. Little's test run in October produced a kilowatt of power--but the fuel cell will have to put out at least 50 kilowatts to power...