Investors are drawing up plans to add to the state's two nuclear power plants, which now supply about 13 percent of its electricity.
The area has since supplied about 20 percent of America's domestic production, but at considerable environmental cost.
Within the industry, imports have risen sharply in recent years and now supply about 28 percent of the American market.
Brazil supplies about 25 percent of the American orange juice market.
Before the ban, Canada supplied about 5 percent of the nation's beef.
"Right now, we supply about 40 percent of our needs."
The 12 reservoirs there supply about 10 percent of the city's water needs.
According to some officials, Russia alone would supply about 2.5 percent.
It supplies about 7 percent of the town's taxes.
Other hands had supplied the added effort, about ninety-nine percent of the total.