China is building 23 gas-fired power plants, with 16 more planned.
In 2011, construction was started on $1.1 billion gas-fired plants.
The authority's idea is for a gas-fired plant to enter service around 1996.
The new wave of natural gas-fired plants now being built will be able to burn oil as well.
We don't even need the new gas-fired plant at Holtsville.
Most oil- and gas-fired plants achieve efficiencies of only about 34 percent.
She called the gas-fired plant a promising idea that needed to be studied thoroughly.
But, how can it be wise to become so reliant on gas-fired power plants?
Only 20 to 25 skilled people are required to run gas-fired power plants at salaries ranging from $40,000 to more than $100,000 a year.
Each company granted a discount, he said, was in a position to build its own highly efficient gas-fired power plant.
