Electricity Articles

Washington Post - The operator of the mid-Atlantic region's electricity grid approved yesterday a high-voltage power transmission line that would begin in Northern Virginia and cut across Southern Maryland before going under the Chesapeake Bay and ending in New Jersey ...

Slate - ... than real estate and Wall Street," says former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. (You remember her—she played the environmentalist in the first Bush term.) Through the first half of this year, nukes provided 19.8 percent of U.S. electricity ...

Bloomberg - With fuel costs rising, the cost of electricity in Galena and power prices are four times more than the national average,'' Yoder said. Galena operates six diesel generators as the main source of electricity for households. ``Galena definitely needs ...

CNN - At least 6,800 homes and businesses were without power, according to Gulf Power spokesman John Hutchinson, who advised that it may take some time to restore electricity because of the continuing storms. More stormy weather may be on its way. Florida's ...

Boston Globe - But today, it fuels a power plant generating enough electricity for 3,000 homes. Waste Management Inc. of Houston, the nation's biggest landfill operator, just opened the squat, two-story plant this fall, piping methane from the landfill to drive two ...

Baltimore Sun - Heating oil is currently used by 7 percent of American households, mainly in the Northeast, while about 58 percent use natural gas and 30 percent use electricity. In 1997, 9 percent used heating oil, while 53 percent used natural gas and 29 percent ...

Baltimore Sun - Two local businesses are pushing to build wind turbines and solar panels to generate electricity in a Mount Airy park, acting upon an idea proposed by a college environmentalist last summer. The owners of Freedom Energy Solutions in Westminster and ...

MSN UK News - The Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the US Energy Department, required construction of an exclusively solar-powered home that would use no more electricity than is generated by its solar panels over a five-day period. The contest also required that ...

MSNBC - Electricity cut Frustrated by near-daily rocket attacks on Israel’s south from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Ehud Barak gave final approval to a new measure — cutting off electricity to the strip for longer periods every time ...

Baltimore Sun - Gov. Martin O'Malley wants you to use less electricity, building on the premise that the cheapest and least-polluting kilowatt is the one never used. But the goal he set in July - getting every Marylander to cut electricity use by 15 percent in seven ...