1. Environmentalists also criticized FPL for its attempts to power a plant near Tampa Bay by burning Orimulsion, a cheap, tarlike fuel from Venezuela. 2. Niagara will pay prices pegged to the price of natural gas, which is used to power the plants of the independent producers. 3. The bill removes obstacles for utilities to build their own power plants in Iowa and allows municipal utilities to jointly build plants. 4. The cost of natural gas, which powers many plants, skyrocketed because of high demand during a chilly fall and winter. 5. The Energy Group owns the Eastern Group, a British electricity distributor, and several power plants. 6. The haze is caused in part by sulfur dioxide from the Carbon I and II coal-fired power plants in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. 7. Virtually all the large plants are powered by natural gas and use very similar technology for cooling water, gas supply and air emissions. 8. It is also finalizing a power generation deal with Rolls Royce Power Ventures, a unit of Rolls Royce Plc., to power its plant in Bago. 9. The future is further dimmed by forecasts of a hot summer and little snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada to power hydroelectric plants. 10. The plant will be powered primarily by natural gas piped from the United States, and alternatively by diesel fuel. |