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Focuses on the use of Internet for governmental functions in India and Europe. Means used by India to execute its e-government projects; List of basic e-government services benchmarked by the European Union; Degree of Internet usage and ratings of e-government services.

The article discusses the effect of extreme weather conditions on electrical supplies in Southern California and south-western Connecticut. Under normal weather conditions, generating resources and transmission capability will be adequate for summer but extreme weather conditions may post a reliability risk in areas with lower margins. Excessive heat will result in a Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index that is 10 percent more than the conditions under average climate.

Presents information on the construction of wind turbines in Prowers County, Colorado. Number of households that will benefit from the project according to the American Wind Energy Association; Comments by Lamar's Mayor Elwood Gillis, on the wind project; Features of the wind turbines used for the project.

Examines the performance of offshore wind turbines as of November 2004. Comparison of the functions of offshore wind turbines and land-based turbines; Challenges in harnessing offshore wind turbines; Reason for the presence of higher speed of wind turbines at sea.

Provides information on how to avoid bulk solid handling problems in coal-fired power plants in the U.S. Functions of TIVAR 88, a product from TIVAR Engineering group of Poly Hi Solidur of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Number of plants owned by energy company Alabama Power; Amount of coals used by Alabama Power every year.

Two units at Duke Energy's Moss Landing steam generating plant in California recently underwent much-needed repairs as stress corrosion of the turbine blades caused losses of 18MW. Blade shank redesign techniques performed by TurboCare addressed the underlying reason for stress failure, resulting in $20 million in savings for the company. The Moss Landing power plant is in a small fishing and tourist destination of Moss Landing village on Monterey Bay. With the recent completion of a vast modernization project, and the addition of two new generating units, Moss Landing's grand total of 2,560MW represents the largest power plant in California.

Focuses on the topics discussed at the West Coast Power conference held in San Francisco, California. Pros and cons of standard market design for electric utilities; Decline in the cost of wind power generation; Legislation on electric utilities in California.

Reports the problems faced by the combustion turbine operators on degradation of turbine generation capacity during summer. Utilization of media-type evaporative coolers on the principles of evaporation; Applications of refrigerant-type air chilling systems; Installation of fog systems on eight gas turbines to meet summer demand.

Deals with an offshore windfarm project in Arklow, Ireland in 2004. Plans of GE Energy for the project; Capacity of the plant; Machinery that will be installed in the plant; Concern on wind-based generation plants.