Demand Reduction
In October 2012, Stanwell announced plans to shut down two generating units for two years. The scaling down of operations will result in the lose of employment for 60 skilled workers. The introduction of the federal price on carbon has been attributed to the reduction in electricity demand.
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Famous quotes containing the words demand and/or reduction:
“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don’t want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, of the power and strength of a great nation.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)