It was originally used to power sites far off the utility grid.
The equal-opportunity dissing encompasses power sites like Tiananmen Square and the White House, but also, intriguingly, Long Island City, Queens.
A lot of the expenditure is around very unsexy items – sanitary provision, showers, toilets, waste management, power, site lighting.
The £300m Scottish Power site at Whitelee, south of Glasgow, will have 140 turbines and eventuaklly provide enough electricity to power 200,000 homes.
The Observer has learned that George Osborne is demanding cuts of 25% in subsidies, a reduction the industry says would "kill dead" the development of wind power sites.
French energy giant EDF will give an update on its new nuclear power site at Hinkley Point in Somerset as it prepares to make a final investment decision.
"Tracking the Serpent," a kind of feminist "On the Road," chronicled her visits in the 1980s to matriarchal power sites in the Amazon, Nepal, France and Britain.
The flow of the Ogoki River, a former tributary, has been diverted into Lake Nipigon to increase the hydroelectric output at the Nipigon River power sites.
The government agency, with responsibility for cleaning up the old nuclear power sites, would not name any of those parties but they are known to include major energy groups E.ON, EDF and RWE.
