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1) Electricity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book discusses the properties of electricity and describes how it is made and used.
2) Yesterday
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Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.
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HB09-1345 requires, among other things, that the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) confer with all owners and operators of transmission facilities in Colorado and with affected stakeholders and prepare a report to the General Assembly on the integrated intermediate-term and long-term plans for improving transmission infrastructure in Colorado and the region.
6) 96 miles
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
The objective of the research program is to develop design parameters of systems for thermal/mechanical conversion of solar energy to electric power at minimum cost per kilowatt-hour generated. Systems of 3MW to 300MW sizes in a public utility network are considered. Parametric performance and cost models are derived for key elements of the system. A sequential optimization program was developed using these models to determine optimum subsystem sets...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The goal of this project is to study market opportunities for distributed generation (DG) and energy efficiency (EE) in Colorado's industrial sectors. Colorado Energy Office has contracted this work to Energetics Incorporated to support the following activities: 1) estimate the size of Colorado's industrial sector and identify opportunities to encourage DG and EE investment by industrial customers, 2) assess industrial customer attitudes towards distributed...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
On February 18, 2006 Xcel Energy initiated rolling blackouts due to a power supply shortfall of nearly 400 megawatts on its electric power system. More than 371,000 Colorado electric service customers lost power for an average of more than 41 minutes during subzero temperatures. This document contains the steps Public Service Company of Colorado plans to take to reduce the possibility of such an event happening again.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
On February 18, 2006 Xcel Energy initiated rolling blackouts due to a power supply shortfall of nearly 400 megawatts on its electric power system. More than 371,000 Colorado electric service customers lost power for an average of more than 41 minutes. The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) asked Xcel Energy for a report on the cause of the outages, the length of time of the outages, and the poor communications the company provided to the people who...
16) City on fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 57
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The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have...
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"A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in...