Sentences with phrase «by energy companies over»

With Australians facing further hikes in their electricity and gas bills following moves by energy companies over the weekend to increase bills by up to 20 per cent, Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure to deliver relief for households, small businesses and manufacturers.

Not exact matches

While they acknowledged that methane emissions by the energy industry have decreased over the last few years, they still expressed a belief that it needed to be regulated, so they put together new rules that would force energy companies to decrease their methane emissions by 40 % to 55 % over the next 10 years.

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

Last month over a dozen Fortune 500 companies, like Apple, Google, Walmart and Coca - Cola, signed pledges, organized by the White House, to take measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy.

In June, the company also announced plans to acquire SolarCity, the solar energy company backed by Musk and his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive, but the deal was questioned by investors over fears of cash burns and conflict of interest.

Dark clouds are hovering over SolarCity, the solar energy company backed by billionaire Elon Musk.

Australia is increasing natural gas production by roughly 150 percent over the next four years, as energy companies build half a dozen export terminals to serve dwindling demand.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&renergy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&rEnergy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

This cutting - edge facility is an estimated 60 per cent more energy - efficient than the company's traditional refrigerated distribution centres allowing it to cut costs by $ 4.8 million over a 5 - year period.

A mobile app, co-developed by Corporate Knights and Energy Mobile Studios, which any company can use to rank themselves against a screened universe of over 4,000 corporations across 24 industry groups.

Apollo Power (formerly SolarPaint) became active on the stock exchange just over two months ago, after completing the merger of its solar energy activity (which has yet to generate revenue) into stock market shell company Or City Holdings, formerly controlled by Inbal Or.

Over the last year, the Carbon Trust has worked with companies including Allied Bakeries, Dairy Crest, Cadbury and Nestle to identify more energy efficient manufacturing processes with the potential to cut industry carbon emissions by some 450,000 tonnes a year: equivalent to taking more than 150,000 cars off the road.

Best of 2012 Ingredient Supplier: Axiom Foods December 07, 2012 Sports & Energy, Magazine By Marie Redding Axiom Foods has grown at phenomenal rates: over 100 % each year since CEO David Janow founded the company in 2005.

National Fuel Gas CEO Ronald J. Tanski, stung by the rejection of a major pipeline expansion project and a steep reduction in the size of a utility rate increase request over the past month, told analysts that the Amherst - based energy company is «getting lousy regulatory treatment in New York State.»

The lawsuits are the latest legal challenges against oil companies over climate change and come as the firms are searching for new business models amid pressure by governments and consumers for cleaner energy.

Percoco, 48, of South Salem, Gov. Cuomo's longtime right - hand man, is accused of taking bribes of over $ 300,000 set up by Howe from two of his clients — an energy company executive and two Syracuse developers — in return for using his influence to solve problems with the state.

The letter comes on the eve of a House hearing on the legality of the subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to Schneiderman's office over the investigation over whether major energy companies downplayed the risks of climate change.

In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $ 300 million over 11 years while providing $ 5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

The NPA has among other things stated that, it will fine the two companies and also take legal action against them, whiles it investigates the claims over the improper sale of the fuel in collaboration with an investigative committee set up by government through the Energy Ministry.

Cameron, under pressure over rising fuel bills, apparently jumped the gun by announcing that ministers would soon legislate to order energy companies to put customers on the lowest tariffs.

A recent report by the Center for American Progress found that over the past decade, five of the world's top 10 oil companies — ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp., BP PLC, Royal Dutch Shell Group, and ConocoPhillips Co. — and other large traditional energy companies with a direct commercial stake in future energy markets have forged dozens of multi-year, multi-million-dollar alliances with top U.S. universities and scientists to carry out energy - related research.

Web development company Pigment was established in 2008 by Widernet directors Erica Turner, Jonathan Williams and Sam Oliver, and has worked with clients including EDF Energy, Workhub and Becta over the years.

The goal for most oil and gas juniors is to be taken over by a bigger company at a nice premium for the shareholders, says Aroway Energy CEO Chris Cooper in an interview with OilPrice.com.

And since over 90 % of the company's cash flow is supported by long - term commercial contracts, Enbridge shouldn't suffer the same kind of shocks to cash flow that a lot of other companies in the energy space can / will.

Post-Fed rate increase and halfway through the first month of 2016, Treasuries prices have increased, as some investors have moved toward safe haven assets in response to concerns over dangers in the U.S. economic recovery, which have been brought on by possible credit problems in energy and commodity companies due to the low price of oil.

You see the same thing today, with skeptics fed by «scientists» paid for by energy companies afraid of losing their control over the industry, of having energy that is renewable and can not be gamed (and don't forget the energy traders and hedgers, who make a ton of money out of this very volatile market).

E.g., the AFP organization is funded by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation that gets its money from Koch Industries, the nation's largest privately held energy company and the second largest family - owned business in the U.S. with annual sales of over $ 20 billion.

The conference Sunday, attended by representatives from 41 countries, saw 293 local and foreign companies commit to invest in producing 266 gigawatts of renewable energy over five years.

The optimism of green energy companies has dimmed since the carbon tax legislation was passed last year, amid political uncertainty and growing concern over the forthcoming review of the 20 per cent by 2020 renewable energy target.

After a decade of grass - roots rural community angst from being ridden over roughshod by multi-national energy companies aided by state and federal governments eager to be seen to be «doing something» about climate change, while ignoring the basic human right to enjoy rest and repose in their own home, the issue of health impacts will now get the hearing it deserves.

Even as Washington goes into a frenzy over energy, many of the oil companies are staying on the sidelines, balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president, or even straying from commitments they had already made.

The company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

By late 2011, new solar farms began supplying clean and renewable power to Thailand, and the entrepreneur and her company have attracted over $ 800 million for their clean energy investments in the country.

Ben & Jerry's Partnership Decreases GHG September 16, 2014 — BURLINGTON, VT — Green Dream Farm in Enosburg Falls, Vt., expects to lower its greenhouse gas emissions by 12,900 metric tons over the next 10 years and save $ 30,000 annually as the result of a partnership with ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's and Native Energy, a carbon offset and project development company.

> If 100 companies commit to doubling energy productivity by the year 2030, over 170 million metric tons of cumulative GHG emissions could be reduced.

Corporate buyers also upped their commitments to solar in 2014 by 28 % over the year before, taking the cumulative installed capacity of top U.S. companies to over 569 MW at 1,110 facilitites, according to «Solar Means Business,» a report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Management of the Rockaways» power grid has been taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense CoEnergy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Coenergy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Wind energy is set to expand rapidly, with the American Wind Energy Association projecting $ 10 billion in investments over the next decade, thanks to the RPS targeted by ALEC and its dirty companies through loyal politicians like Senator energy is set to expand rapidly, with the American Wind Energy Association projecting $ 10 billion in investments over the next decade, thanks to the RPS targeted by ALEC and its dirty companies through loyal politicians like Senator Energy Association projecting $ 10 billion in investments over the next decade, thanks to the RPS targeted by ALEC and its dirty companies through loyal politicians like Senator Seitz.

Over the last dozen years, he has received research funding of more than a $ 1.2 million from sources such as ExxonMobil; Southern Company, a foundation run by the Koch brothers, conservative energy moguls; and industry trade group American Petroleum Institute.

«New York has been a national solar leader, eliciting over a billion dollars in investments by solar companies to help create a cleaner more reliable energy system for New York,» said Valessa Souter - Kline, Policy Coordinator at the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYenergy system for New York,» said Valessa Souter - Kline, Policy Coordinator at the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYEnergy Industries Association (NYSEIA).

Over the past decade, major Canadian musicians including Anne Murray, Billy Talent, Blue Rodeo, Dave Carroll, Dave Gunning, k - os and The Tragically Hip have also demonstrated their support for green energy by bullfrogpowering their homes, tours, concerts or companies.

Next door in Pennsylvania, natural gas development is creating jobs and fueling local economies as farmers have reinvigorated their operations over the past decade with lease and royalty payments paid by energy companies.

As the EU Commission prepares to release a review of the EU Renewable Energy Directive and Market Design Initiative in late November 2016, this RE100 report, prepared by E3G, calls on policy makers to ensure that measures are put in place that would give companies easier access to renewable power in Europe - providing greater control over energy costs and long - term business stabEnergy Directive and Market Design Initiative in late November 2016, this RE100 report, prepared by E3G, calls on policy makers to ensure that measures are put in place that would give companies easier access to renewable power in Europe - providing greater control over energy costs and long - term business stabenergy costs and long - term business stability.

Already sourcing over 80 % of its global electricity consumption from renewable sources, the company aims to reach 100 % by investing in solar and wind energy and converting diesel generators into lithium storage batteries for maximising its use of renewable power.

Our government does not need to be in the business of making decisions for us by giving large subsidies or tax breaks to the energy companies of their choosing, something that costs taxpayers and has not served us well over the last decades.

Though Wall Street and investment banks have been getting hit hard by public criticism over the last few months, most wind farm projects and solar panel companies will look for private investment to generate an upswing of output — and if investors aren't willing to invest, the equity side of renewable energy deals could find itself in a complete standstill.

The company's environmental policy is also nothing to sneeze at: It is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Energy & Climate Change Working Group and has trimmed carbon dioxide emissions by over 10 percent since 2006, with an investment of over a cool $ 2 million.

US - based technology company Dell has pledged to reduce emissions from their facilities and logistics operations by 50 percent by 2020 over 2011 levels, and reduce the energy intensity of their product portfolio 80 percent by 2020.

Fifty - two have filed for bankruptcy since 2015, and over a third of the world's biggest oil and gas companies have crushing debt loads (over $ 150 billion) and cash flows depressed by low oil prices, according to the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions and a recent study by As You Sow.