A new study aims to find out how much electricity from wind and sunshine the aging power grid can support.
一项新的研究旨在弄清现有的陈旧电网接纳风电和太阳能发电的能力。Nuclear is often said to be a carbon-free way of generating electricity.
核能被说成是没有碳排放的发电方式。In 2005 alone, China added 66 gigawatts of electricity to its power grid, about as much power as Britain generates in a year.
仅2005年，中国在其电网中新增了66亿千瓦的电力，约为英国每年发电的总量。During his senior year, he took a break from school to work as a programmer at a power plant in southern Washington.
大四时，他休学去华盛顿州南部的一个发电厂做了程序员。The key is, by changing the resistance levels on the control panel, they are now controlling how much electricity they'll produce.
问题的关键在于，改变控制盘的阻力值，发电量也会随之改变。This means that Southern Company has a good idea, in advance, of how much money it will earn from generating electricity.
这就是说，与其他公司相比，南方公司在如何通过发电赚钱的问题上先想出一个好主意。Merkel acts like she's doing so much. But Germany still builds coal-burning power plants and has no speed limit.
默克尔似乎采取了很多措施，但德国依然在建燃煤发电站，仍没有速度限制。The ships would turn wind power into hydrogen, which would be stored on board, to be unloaded later and used to generate electricity.
帆船把风力转换成氢贮存在船上，需要时卸载用于发电。The company will use locally made parts at the plant and it may also help its suppliers set up factories, he said.
该公司将在发电厂使用当地生产的零部件，这还可以帮助其供应商建立工厂。