But with energy security and price now burning issues, locally generated power could become a practical alternative, provided the "cap" on local generation is lifted?
But perhaps more noxiously, a culture was generated in which investment banking seemed smart, charismatic and the source of fortunes.
The Chicago police statement did not address how long into an arrest or detention those records are generated or their availability to the public.
A charge is generated when comedy and seriousness mix, when funny people admit that not everything is always funny.
The EU's competition commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, had expressed scepticism that the Hinkley Point C scheme could satisfy the EU's stringent state aid criteria after the UK government agreed to underwrite the project with a loan guarantee and a commitment on the price of the electricity generated by the power station.
But the savings will still be generated by increasing pressure on claimants and former claimants.
"Imagine the stories that were probably generated at the time about how the whole thing was going to fail when, in fact, the opposite turned out to be true," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Tuesday.
"As loth as I am to give any credit to what's happened here, which is egregious, it's clear that some of the conversations this has generated, some of the debate, probably needed to happen," he said.
He also played a rich boy in The Riot Club, a 2014 adaptation of the play Posh, which has generated internet grumblings that he must come from wealthy stock himself.
Away from Chibok, the social media campaign to #bringbackourgirls has generated more than one million tweets and swelled into a global outcry, with famous figures including Angelina Jolie, Malala Yousafzai and Michelle Obama joining the calls for Nigeria's government to recover the remaining girls.
The Luxembourg operations of Barclays, through which of much of the bank's controversial tax planning services are channelled, generated £1.4bn of profits in 2013 – £100m for each of the 14 people employed there.
