Sentences with phrase «utilities industry at»

Prior to that, Neil was the Power Generation Leader for the Energy & Utilities industry at IBM.

Claud P. Davis, CFA, CPA, is an investment officer and an equity research analyst covering the utility industry at MFS Investment Management ® (MFS ®).

Not exact matches

Mike Dunne, managing director of Laser Fusion Energy at the NIF, says that to achieve its goal of commercialization, the NIF has already brought in the utilities industry and vendors, concurrent with experimentation at LIFE.

That means looking critically at the economics of the utilities industry as well as the supply chain, and steering the experimental work as closely as possible to create an energy source that can be integrated with the technical infrastructure of the existing power industry.

At present, the utilities sector is made up of five industries.

Industry veteran Caitlin Long spent much of this year working to get legislation passed in Wyoming that recognized the legitimacy of utility tokens at the state level.

Meanwhile, the founding team at KWF identified a new credit profile, the «Clean Utility Homeowner,» as a critical yet overlooked segment within the existing consumer finance industry.

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

Currently coal inventories are high in the electric power industry however recent data shows that inventories at eastern utilities is falling because of increasing domestic and international demand.

The solar industry in Japan is regulated by the government, and utility companies are required to purchase renewable energy at fixed prices.

The analysis, prepared by Navius Research, projects that the combined carbon pollution from LNG and natural gas, industry and utilities, transport, and buildings will increase until 2030 and remain above current levels until at least 2050.

«While other apps exist in the industry, the utility and seamless integration of the US Foods mobile app goes above and beyond anything currently available,» said Stuart Schuette, chief operating officer at US Foods.

Corey Bennett at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California points out that the technology uses «industry supported fabrication technology... thus I see it having great utility in the future.»

«Only two out of the 54 are operating, and these utilities are trying to work their way through the mechanics to get permission to restart,» said Neil Wilmshurst, vice president for the nuclear sector at the U.S. industry's Electric Power Research Institute.

«The nuclear industry in general is an industry where it's in our best interest that everybody builds safe and reliable plants,» said Steve Winn, executive vice president of strategy, environment and nuclear development at Princeton, N.J. — based utility NRG Energy, in an interview with Scientific American in 2007.

Unfortunately, research and development funding in the electric utility industry is at an all - time low, the lowest of any major industrial sector except for pulp and paper.

At Trenton Central High School, in Trenton, New Jersey, for example, some students in the school's Applied Engineering and Science Academy work directly with the local gas and electric company and with nearby Mercer County Community College to prepare for careers in the utilities industry.

At an Explorer preview event November 18, Jim Farley, Ford's head of marketing and sales, noted utility vehicles are the fastest growing segment industry, and that they appeal to both baby boomers and millenials.

In a rare show of solidarity, domestic and international automakers last week jointly attacked insurance industry crash tests that suggest sport - utility vehicles are not as safe as their reputations.The tests of six mid-sized sport - utilities were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an organization funded by automotive insurers.The institute conducts tests into a barrier at 40 mph to simulate two vehicles colliding head - on, but with the crash focused on the driver's side.

Long known for nerdy but reliable all - wheel - drive wagons built for New England winters and Rocky Mountain highways, the car division of Fuji Heavy Industries stole the heart of exurbia with the tricked - up Legacy Outback.And this summer Subaru managed another miraculous makeover, creating the Forester minisport - utility from the chassis and engine of the solid if nondescript Impreza compact.Success has only emboldened the marketing alchemists at Subaru, who also yearn to be known as makers of high - performance vehicles that are anything but boring.

It is the biggest award yearly in the U.S. auto industry, the North American International Auto Show car, truck, and utility of the year, awarded at the big auto show in Detroit each January.

Prior to that, Ian worked at Franklin / Templeton as an equity analyst and portfolio manager, where he began his career as an equity analyst covering a variety of industries, including media, telecom services, pollution control, utilities, gaming, and lodging (1989 — 2003).

In any case, I am looking at modifying my portfolio, and the industries that interest me fall into energy, utilities, healthcare, and stable sectors.

Sokol, as chairman of the Berkshire subsidiary MidAmerican Energy Holdings, knew the utility industry and saw a chance to buy solid assets at a bargain price.

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.

This is a vitally important distinction that many people don't seem to make very often, if at all (especially many of those in the coal, oil, and utility industries).

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

Call for quick action to raise caps and protect jobs and investments at key hearing of Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee Boston, MA (October 3, 2017)-- Industry associations and Read More

But the utility industry and the federal government haven't committed to funding demonstrations considered necessary to deploy the technology at commercial scale.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reported that the solar industry has realized the 2020 utility - scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative of having an average price of utility - scale solar at 6 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).

Frank Lacey, Principal at Electric Advisors Consulting LLC, has worked in the electricity industry for over 20 years, initially consulting for utilities then moving into the customer - facing sector.

Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

«We have made impressive gains, approving dozens of utility - scale solar, wind and geothermal projects in the West and transitioning from planning to commercial leasing for offshore wind,» Outgoing Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told some 300 industry leaders in a keynote address at the Offshore Wind Power USA Conference in Boston February 26.

American Petroleum Institute, National Mining Association, Edison Electric Institute (utilities), American Natural Gas Alliance, National Propane Gas Association, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (utilities), Growth Energy (ethanol lobby), National Biodiesel Board, and the good guys at American Wind Energy Association and Solar Energy Industries Association.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Utility companies clashed with oil industry interests over electric vehicle and fuel subsidies at a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative political group, last Friday.

The results have implications for utilities of all sizes, said Katharina Klein, who served as a policy expert at the German Association for Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) through August 2016.

The utility industry nationwide, not just in Connecticut, has long argued that, because of the revenue they lose from solar customers who only draw power from the grid part of the time — chiefly at night — they have to charge non-solar customers more to maintain the grid.

Executives at the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for U.S. investor - owned utilities, told Utility Dive this month they see decarbonization and electrification of other industries as the central drivers of sector revenues in the 21st century.

The electric generation industry includes the «electric power sector» (utility generators and independent power producers) and industrial and commercial power generators, including combined - heat - and - power producers, but excludes units at single - family dwellings.

So now the question is no longer about what would have prompted questions about skeptic scientists» funding to come up at «an obscure utility hearing in Minnesota», it's about why an assistant A.G. would insert material into a public hearing against some of its expert science witnesses concerning an industry corruption insinuation based on a suggestion coming from a private citizen who had nothing to do with the topic at all just eight or so weeks earlier.

In May, at an industry confab, one California utility executive put it this way: «The technology has been resolved.

-- The term «qualified industry organization» means the Edison Electric Institute, the American Public Power Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a successor organization of such organizations, or a group of owners or operators of distribution utilities delivering fossil fuel - based electricity who collectively represent at least 20 percent of the volume of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered by distribution utilities to consumers in the United States.

In short, Modi is trying to create a world - class renewable - energy industry while reforming a corrupt and bankrupt utility sector, growing the country's manufacturing sector, keeping deficits low, and sustaining economic growth at around 8 percent a year.

To date, the electric utility industry has aided and abetted the climate alarmist cause, if not by actually lobbying for global warming regulation, then at least by its willingness to entertain such regulation as public policy worthy of serious consideration.

The Nuclear Energy Institute agreed, noting that all energy subsidies should have a sunset clause, like some of the government support that the nuclear industry received in its first few decades.Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, was generally not a fan of subsidies, but did acknowledge their utility in research and development of technologies.

Instead of spending his (staff's) valuable time penning a letter to promote the burgeoning solar industry in his home state, Kyl decided to take a highly - specified shot at utility - scale solar power.

Posted by Monisha Shah and Nick Sinai on May 02, 2013 at 09:12 AM EDT This article is cross-posted from the Council on Environmental Quality blog Last year, in response to the Obama Administration's call to action, 35 utilities and energy providers committed to provide 36 million homes and businesses with their own energy usage information in the consensus, industry - standard Green Button format.

It's something clean tech observers and many in the utility industry have long expected, articulated in the form of a report from researchers at engineering and consulting company Black & Vetch: California utilities won't be able to meet their 2010 renewable energy standard (RPS), which decrees that they must obtain 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources like solar, wind or geothermal.

The utility offered those using solar water heaters the electric equivalent at reduced rates in order to totally eliminate the solar industry in southern Florida.