Sentences with phrase «by energy companies with»

In both New York and Illinois, we faced deep - pocketed adversaries — including ones funded by energy companies with a financial interest in closing nuclear plants.

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In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

The stock has surged 41 % since President Donald Trump's November election, surprising many who predicted the company led by billionaire Elon Musk would suffer under a Republican government averse to supporting clean - energy companies with federal tax subsidies.

Though startups have innovated around sleep recently, larger companies like Under Armor have begun with their «Athlete Recovery Sleepwear,» using fabric that helps recovery by converting body heat into far infrared energy and reflecting it back into the body.

Last week, Musk wrote a blog post reiterating his intention to combine Tesla with SolarCity, the solar energy company he co-founded that's currently run by his cousin.

In 2001, with an investment of $ 1 million, Army vet Hulburt co-founded Rex Energy, an independent energy outfit he grew into a $ 300 million company by buying up oil and gas fields before taking it public inEnergy, an independent energy outfit he grew into a $ 300 million company by buying up oil and gas fields before taking it public inenergy outfit he grew into a $ 300 million company by buying up oil and gas fields before taking it public in 2007.

The other three nominees are John Lipinski and Bob Alexander who have worked with refining company CVR Energy Inc, which is majority owned by Icahn, and Randolph Read, who has worked with investment fund Nevada Strategic Credit Investment.

Mr Bryan, who has been in a relationship with Ms Wintour since 1999, was also pursued for outstanding Texas property taxes, and has had energy companies he owns in the state chided by local authorities for falling behind on their financial filings.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

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.)

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

R&D company Eikos, founded by Joe Pich, 49, has 20 employees and works with Japanese customers and the Department of Energy.

With demand from energy companies driving rampant office - tower construction, it's now projected that Calgary will overtake Montreal as Canada's No. 2 business hub by the middle of the decade.

In an interview with Business Insider, EDF Climate Corps program director Liz Delaney dropped a juicy tidbit of information about the nature of green energy jobs: Of the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employees.

CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX: SU), known for its huge presence in Alberta's oilsands, is reducing its workforce by 1,000 and cutting $ 1 billion from its capital budget as the company grapples with plummeting crude prices.

Calgary's talk of diversification notwithstanding, «the downtown office market is predominantly occupied by companies tied directly to the energy sector,» says Arthur Lloyd, executive vice-president with Ivanhoe Cambridge.

In this article in The Tyee, Andrew Nikiforuk levels some very serious allegations with respect to the National Energy Board, suggesting that the Board has been captured (see * below for definition) by industry, that it can not be objective because it is industry - financed, and that it does not appropriately balance the interests of energy companies -LSEnergy Board, suggesting that the Board has been captured (see * below for definition) by industry, that it can not be objective because it is industry - financed, and that it does not appropriately balance the interests of energy companies -LSenergy companies -LSB-...]

(Reuters)- U.S. power producer Calpine Corp CPN.N said it would sell itself to a group of investors led by Energy Capital Partners for $ 5.6 billion, as the debt - laden company struggles with depressed natural gas prices.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Bottom line: Enbridge Inc. (ENB) is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, with most of its cash flow supported by long - term commercial agreements that don't depend on commodity pricing.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --(April 6, 2016)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has formed a strategic alliance with TransCanyon, LLC (TransCanyon), a joint venture between subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, to jointly pursue competitive transmission opportunities solicited by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), the operator for the majority of California's transmission grid.

Early concepts of an energy - efficient semi-truck were first announced by the company back in May, and it looks the plan, by some measure, has finally materialized and is set to move forward once and for all, with 2020 as the company's expected operation date.

Any investments recommended by Energy & Resources Digest should be made only after consulting with your investment advisor and only after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company.

Cation is led by Sandy Edmonstone, a former Macquarie Capital Markets investment banker who, along with others, played a pivotal role in ensuring debenture holders of Twin Butte Energy received full value when that company entered receivership in 2016.

As a factoring company with experience working with the energy services industry, we know the challenges faced by a growing company like yours can include:

For example, PBF Energy, a company with refining assets in the U.S. Northeast and Midwest, has seen its share price jump by more than 25 percent since the storm hit the Gulf Coast.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

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.

It is a unique opportunity to develop the future of the industry by combining the expertise of one of America's largest food company with the energy, innovation and entrepreneurialism of startup culture.

«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally by all community - minded companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water standards.

But what I am suggesting is that whether you're out and about today on «Black Friday» or cruising the Net on «Cyber Monday,» you can choose to make a difference with your purchases by patronizing those companies that help us to go green — either by saving energy, using organic farming methods, or insisting on recycled paper from well managed forests.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payEnergy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payenergy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payenergy tariffs and special payments.

So now either tell me what your political enemy has done to make energy costs much higher or share with me which energy company you and Flanagan are being paid off by?

That's causing problems for a wind project that's been in development by Avangrid Renewables, an international energy company with wind farms in Herkimer and Lewis counties, for years.

They say Percoco allegedly used his post with Cuomo to help drive favorable decisions by the state that helped the energy company's financial bottom line.

Percoco, Aiello and Gerardi and are on trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan along with energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who is alleged to have bribed Percoco by securing what prosecutors have termed a «low - show» corporate education job for his wife, a former schoolteacher.

People are already suffering under David Cameron's cost of living crisis and now, thanks to his failure to stand up to the big energy companies, consumers will be hit by ever high bills, with SSE increasing prices by nearly 10 %.

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.

Lawyers for Peter G. Kelly Jr., former senior vice president of a Syracuse energy company, sought a separate trial for him on the charges that he bribed Percoco by having the energy company hire Percoco's wife, a teacher, for an educational consulting job, and by providing Percoco with a fishing trip and a meal.

Kelly, a former energy company executive, is accused of providing Percoco with $ 287,000 by giving a low - show job to Percoco's wife.

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Buoyed by Cuomo's renewable energy plan and the extension of federal tax credits, solar companies are blanketing rural areas with mailings seeking leases on farmland for solar arrays spanning 20 acres or more.

The former PM, jokingly christened «Red John» by one member of the audience, didn't agree with Miliband's policy, but Sir John instead proposed an «emergency excess profit» tax on energy companies.

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

The company ReEnergy said it would make Fort Drum energy independent by producing low - cost, clean power with wood waste.

She added that she had no relationship with the MD of the company, Alfred Obeng Boateng who was exonerated of any wrongdoing in the matter by the Energy Minister, based on a report from the BNI last week.

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.

A study earlier this year by German company Energynautics commissioned by Greenpeace found that grid upgrades totaling up to 140 GW of capacity would be necessary across the European Union and eastern and northern Europe to cope with the vast increase planned in renewable energy.

In particular, the metal - air batteries with significantly greater energy density close to that of gasoline per kilogram, has recently been acknowledged and invested by world's leading companies, like IBM.

Verdant, which operates its kinetic (non-dam) hydropower project in the East River under a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), plans to by the end of the year apply for a FERC pilot commercial license that would allow the company to create a field of up to 40 underwater turbines with up to 1.5 megawatts of capacity.