51. It will never produce electricity again. 52. Monju had just begun producing electricity in August. 53. Mobile Energy has in the meantime switched over to more expensive natural gas to produce electricity for the other two customers at the site. 54. Nearly everyone accepts that the long-term solution is for the state to produce more electricity and use longer-term contracts. 55. New rivals are expected to depend on natural-gas and coal-fired plants that can produce electricity at lower costs. 56. Nevertheless, other companies continued to complain that the law punished them for making even routine repairs and discouraged them from expanding capacity to produce more electricity. 57. NSP, which produces electricity and distributes both electricity and natural gas, is cutting costs to compete in an industry being made over by deregulation, Howard said. 58. Now, the company must show it is capable of producing electricity more efficiently than existing technologies can. 59. Often, the cells use hydrogen to produce electricity, a relatively clean process. 60. Reserves of that size would justify construction of a project to liquefy the gas so it could be transported by tanker to customers, primarily to produce electricity. |