Sentences with phrase «big power companies»

ACCC chairman Rod Sims put big power companies on notice that the agency will tackle surging retail costs in its final report on electricity due next month.

Only 7 per cent of new energy is coming from big power companies; most is coming from small players, consumer cooperatives, producer cooperatives, farmers and people living in cities.

In December, the Supreme Court agreed to take a case in which states and allied land trust organizations have charged that greenhouse gases emitted by a few big power companies constitute a «nuisance» under common law.

Earlier this month, west coast utility Pacific Gas and Electric and seven other big power companies wrote in support of the new rules:

Energy Future, the biggest power company in Texas, can claim an ignominious distinction in the annals of American business history: Warren Buffett considers his nearly $ 2 billion investment in the company's bonds one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made.

However, Andrew Warren, director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy and formerly a member of the CBI's energy policy committee, said the document came as «no surprise» because the increase in wind power threatens the big power companies who dominate the CBI committee.

For wind farm developers, the cost of borrowing has fallen as banks and big power companies have gained confidence, says Garrad.

We are back in that un-merry-go-round, as the big power company FirstEnergy declared bankruptcy.

After all, we've reported here on a scientist who was little more than a pseudo-scientific front for a big power company — Willie Soon, whom Southern Company, which is heavily - dependent on carbon dioxide - rich coal for its power plants, clandestinely funded to do research pointing away from human - produced CO2 as a cause of global warming.

Gore: It's That Road Runner Moment Climate: Now or Never A major threat to fossil fuel companies has suddenly moved from the fringe to center stage with a dramatic announcement by Germany's biggest power company and an intriguing letter from the Bank of England.

Climate: Now or Never A major threat to fossil fuel companies has suddenly moved from the fringe to center stage with a dramatic announcement by Germany's biggest power company and an intriguing letter from the Bank of England.

This article focuses on Energy Future Holdings Corp, Texas's biggest power company, request of a US bankruptcy court to allow the bulk of its operations to exit Chapter 11.