Mired somewhere between regulated power and the free market, the state experienced extraordinary wholesale electricity prices.
This is all the more extraordinary since Qatar's electricity is mostly generated from burning natural gas, which has half the emissions of coal.
Electricity's extraordinary versatility means it can be put to an almost limitless set of applications which include transport, heating, lighting, communications, and computation.
The movement of the air flying through the room creates this tension, this electricity: it's extraordinary.
Phil Hay, the World Bank's spokesman for Africa, said that for the continent "to keep growing at this extraordinary rate it depends on more electricity," adding, "That's good for small traders, shopkeepers, businesses, for lighting roadways, for traffic lights".
The restructuring of the electricity industry was an extraordinary achievement that became the template for restructuring utilities around the world.New Labour's stab at "privatisation" might have kept the name but it has changed everything else.
Dr. Jarvik, who had submitted a competing design for the victims' memorial, criticized the winning design, saying that the extraordinary amounts of both water and electricity it would use had not been fully acknowledged.
In his inaugural speech, Karzai said he wanted to strengthen agriculture and irrigation, raise more cattle, sheep and goat, increase electricity by harnessing the extraordinary rivers of Afghanistan, bolster education and complete the 18th-century roads and highways.
But the fierceness, sorrow and theatrical electricity that crackle throughout this extraordinary production are pure Pinter.
There was no air-conditioning, the sound of sirens and motorcycles came through the open windows — but something extraordinary went on in that room, that elusive electricity that live theater should create but often doesn't.
