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• s  fueled by burning oil
  an oil-fired furnace

• Power: oil-fired boilers power four high-pressure steam turbines, which develop some 165,000 h.
• One reason: coal-or oil-fired power plants are still 20% to 40% cheaper to build and operate than nuclear plants.
• As rolling brownouts swept California, he argued that Alaskan oil exploration would keep the crisis from spreading--even though oil-fired generators produce just 1% of California's .

News & Articles

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• Region's electric grid operator wants to armor against winter blackouts
  Worried that there might not be enough natural gas in New England this winter to keep all the lights on reliably, the region's electric grid operator wants oil-fired power plants to stockpile 4.2 million barrels of oil by Dec. 1, for backup.
  June 9, 2013 - Morning Sentinel

Quotes

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• Angus King in MPBN News
  When the wind is blowing and the turbines are turning, what happens on the grid is, in almost every case, a gas-fired plant, or an oil-fired plant, is throttled back,King says.
• Barack Obama in AOL News
  By mid August the Ministry of Energy will commission 22.5 MW of heavy oil-fired power plants in Nairobi as a stop gap measure. It will install a 17 MW medium diesel power plant in Rabai next month and 17 MW in September and another 49 MW totalling... Raila Odinga http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raila_Odinga&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEqYGitjSizpgYC_QTBkGptWchCNQ Standard http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php%3Fid%3D1144019915%26cid%3D4&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHWs-52Z4I1R0V4qDuzrifgcooQVg Jul 22, 2009 69425 92534 oil During his Oval Office speech on the spill June 15, President Barack Obama said, In the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well."