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In autumn 2006, the national power company of Iceland blocked two glacial rivers near the mountain of Karahnjukar in order to flood a wilderness area of 22 square miles and create a reservoir that would supply power for a new aluminum smelting facility built by the American company, Alcoa. The hydroelectric dam, the tallest of its kind in Europe, was expected to generate 4600 GWh of electricity each year, and the smelter had the capacity to process 344,000 metric tons of aluminum annually. In addition to the 400 jobs the project was expected to provide, Alcoa also claimed that theirs would be the safest, most environment-friendly smelter on Earth. Some Icelanders contested this assertion, however, by pointing out the 45 miles of tunnels, 31 miles of high-tension power lines, and the sulfur dioxide fumes associated with... 

Other institutions, including Iceland s National Power Company, Landsvirkjun, were expected to join later. 

Itaipu began producing electric power for sale in May 1985. Electric power generated by EBl from the Itaipu Dam was to be sold to the national power companies of each country and would feed into the separate national grids. ANDE, the state-owned electric company in Paraguay, and Eletrobras, the state-owned electric company in Brazil, were thus EBI s major shareholders and also its major customers. The formula for the price at which this sale would take place was set forth in Annex C to the 1973 Treaty, which stipulates that EBFs total annual income had to equal the cost of service for that year. 

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for the conference provided by the following Arkansas organizations and individuals Arkansas Electric Power Company Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company BEI Electronics, Inc. First Commercial National Bank General Dynamics Corporation John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center Union National Bank University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Whit Stevens and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Support for publication of this book was provided in part by the Citadel Research Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas. 

Hydropower provides an essential contribution to the national power grid its capability to respond in seconds to large and rapidly varying loads, which other baseload plants with steam systems powered by combustion or nuclear processes cannot accommodate. Also, ownership is spread over a broad base. The owners comprise federal and state agencies, cities, metropolitan water districts, irrigation companies, and public and independent utilities. Individual persons also own small plants at remote sites for their own eneigy needs and for sale to utilities... 

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DeLong, M. M. (1995). Economic Development Through Biomass Systems Integration, Vols. 1-4, Northern States Power Company, Minneapolis, MN (NREL/TP-430-20517). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, December. 

The radiofrequency power is provided by a Heathkit model DX-60B r.f. generator, run at a frequency of 13.56 MHz, via a National Radio Company Inc. model NCL-2000 power amplifier and a Bendix Corporation model 263 power meter. This system can deliver 0-300 watts of radiofrequency power maintained at a constant level by a power level control unit. The output of the r.f. power unit is impedance matched to the cathode of the reactor via an LC matching network. 

The Ni-Fe battery rapidly loses its capacity and peaking-power capability with decreasing temperature. Improvements in this area have been significant, particularly in batteries using sintered iron electrodes developed by the Swedish National Development Company and Eagle-Picher Industries Inc. They are reported to perform satisfactorily down to some -20°C. ... 

Iceland s first hydrogen fueling station is operating near Reykjavik. The hydrogen powers a small fleet of fuel cell buses and is produced onsite from electrolyzed tap water. The Iceland New Energy consortium includes automakers, Royal Dutch/Shell and the Icelandic power company Norak Hydro. It plans to convert the rest of the nation to hydrogen. 

For its part, the U.S. State Department designed a diplomatic campaign to counteract the influence over the European Union (EU) of such powerful companies as Imperial Chemical Industries and France s Atochem, while cultivating discreet support behind the EU communal curtain from Belgium, Denmark, and Germany. At the same time, we sent diplomatic and scientific teams to try to persuade the other two major producers—Japan and the Soviet Union—as well as developing nations to support strong controls. 

It seems pertinent to remark that, while the operation of the USDOE could be compared with that of an orchestra, with well-trained musicians (15 national laboratories, nearly 300 university research groups and powerful companies) actively coordinated by a single conductor (the USDOE and its body of scientific advisors), the coordination of DG TREN and DG RES at the European member state level is hampered by 27 orchestras with 27 conductors, which insist on playing their own scores, with inefficient spending of funds and not profiting from synergies. The EC Joint Research Centre activities in support of EC policy measures are not comparable to those of the US national laboratories. 

Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) is a Finnish power company owned mainly by industry. The company was founded in 1969 primarily to satisfy the electrical power needs of the forest industry. The company aims at developing and operating large-scale power plants and producing electricity for its shareholders at cost price. TVO s first nuclear power plant unit, Olkiluoto 1, was connected to the national grid in September 1978, and the second unit, Olkiluoto 2, in February 1980. TVO s output of nuclear power covers about one fifth of the total national production in Finland. 

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