1.   For three Decades, water was released from the dam in haphazard fashion, depending on power needs in the Southwest.

2.   The total energy return is enough to meet all human power needs for several hundred years.

3.   Body Shop, the green cosmetics retail chain, is planning a wind farm to provide all its power needs at its Sussex headquarters.

4.   But now the power authority is forecasting increased power needs, partly from normal growth and partly from higher use expected from lower prices.

5.   California and the Northwest recognized years ago that power needs in the two regions are completely dissimilar.

6.   Four Times Square uses the cells for only a fraction of its total power needs, but in other settings they could pull much heavier duty.

7.   It is a better buy than the zinc-carbon battery and is an answer to almost all portable power needs.

8.   Local power companies also would be able to better determine the power consumption needs of a region by pinpointing hotter or colder areas.

9.   North Korea denies nuclear ambitions beyond civilian power needs, but has threatened to withdraw from the NPT rather than submit to inspections and other required safeguards.