Sentence examples for electricity generating stations from inspiring English sources

The original idea was that the network operator would encourage power providers such as Centrica or SSE to de-mothball some of their gas-fired or other idle electricity generating stations for the winter of 2015-16 when capacity margins – the difference between demand and supply – are expected to be at their very tightest, 2%.

Several hundred people calling themselves human shields camped at oil refineries, water treatment plants, electricity generating stations and similar sites during the war.

One Bryant Park, for instance, is a $1 billion project that included several unusual expenses like an electricity generating station, which is to meet most normal electrical needs.

With a big electricity generating station nearby, Mr Capriles said, "the lights should never go out here".

Just south of the Roosevelt Island Bridge to Queens rise the smokestacks of KeySpan's giant Ravenswood electricity generating station, a behemoth that runs on natural gas and fuel oil.

Even with Broadwater's natural gas in doubt, however, new energy sources for Long Island are in the works, including the Caithness electricity generating station in Yaphank, which is scheduled to start operating this year.

His first job was to build a London transmitter: he chose his spot by climbing to the roof of Marconi House on Kingsway, surveying the skyline, and then setting off to find the chimney of a distant electricity generating station in Marylebone.

By 1900 Broadheath had its own docks, warehouses and electricity generating station.

An electricity generating station was built inside the King's Bastion in the 1960s but has since been demolished and the bastion has been converted into a leisure centre.

For example, Exelon plans to help the factories that it serves do the same work with less electricity so that some generating stations, owned by Exelon or others, will burn less fuel.

It is usually claimed that security and quality of supply on a grid which accommodates renewable sources of electricity requires 'base load' generating stations fueled by coal, oil or natural gas to smooth out power fluctuations.