Sentences with phrase «competitive utilities market»

The reasons they may do so are varied (e.g. to compensate a former monopolist during the transition to a competitive utilities market).

Not exact matches

«We are seeing large swaths of centralized utility scale solar be procured primarily because of how cost competitive it is,» said Cory Honeyman, who follows the U.S. solar industry for market research firm GTM Research.

While the plants must be competitive in the electrical utility market, it is the environmental impact that could be the most exciting.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Despite recent sharp declines in the market price of natural gas, utility - scale solar and wind power remain cost - competitive complements to traditional generation technologies, even without subsidies.

Most of Europe's electricity markets are not competitive, which has allowed utilities to find such ways to keep those extra revenues for themselves.

Most notably that includes the Cadillac CTS sport sedan and SRX cross / utility vehicle, a model GM has struggled to properly position in the fast - moving and highly competitive CUV market.

«With the addition of a number of new competitive offerings, the sport utility truck segment is red hot, and it's time for the original to raise the bar again for everyone else to try to follow,» said Chris Feuell, Ford SUV group marketing manager.

In this newly forming competitive market, getting the most space out of small utility vehicles is an art and science that wins customers and HR - V is positioned at the «Swiss Army Knife» of crossovers, achieving up to 58.8 cubic feet of cargo space when fully folded down.

The BMW X3 is a four - door, five passenger sport - utility vehicle.The luxury sport utility vehicle market is extremely competitive, with manufacturers from Europe, Detroit and Japan all vying to fill every available niche.

The new model legislation is presented in two versions, one for competitive electricity markets and one for vertically integrated utility markets.

«More than 5 million of our utility customers are still exposed to the uncertainties of competitive markets,» he said.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

«There would not be competitive resources on the market if the rule's text is to be taken seriously,» Montana Public Service Commissioner Travis Kavulla, a Republican and the former president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, told Utility Dive.

In fact, it is so expensive that without forcing utilities or subsidizing it's operation it is not competitive on the open market.

Further, the procurement exemplified that storage has the ability to be cost - competitive and effective from a commercial business standpoint and provide valuable functions for utilities in the electricity market.

Electric power companies - numerous producers in a highly competitive generation market, three transmission companies in a regulated monopoly, three regional distributors, municipal utilities.

In the background is a growing resistance to wholesale markets, led by utilities with substantial nuclear and coal - fired generation who are seeking state subsidies to essentially put their thumbs on the scale of the competitive wholesale markets.

In addition, the Western Power Trading Forum submitted comments expressing concerns that utility domination of infrastructure investment is potentially detrimental to competitive wholesale and retail markets and therefore potentially detrimental to technological innovation.

By roughly 2010, then, electrical utilities will be looking to manage the competitive threat posed to their markets by distributed solar generation.

While utilities in Ohio, New York and elsewhere have sought «around market» charges after affiliated coal and nuclear plants became less competitive, Germany's large utilities are charting new paths forward as that country curbs its reliance on fossil fuels.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning a plant when it wears out, and of insuring reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is simply not economical.

I would argue that the principal factor causing the most dire problem is not the lack of utility of a law degree, the tuition of the law school and the debt it created or even the competitiveness of the job market for lawyers upon graduation, but the four years that the student was required to spend learning something unnecessary to obtain an undergraduate degree that is utterly useless to the practice of law and that delays the entry to a competitive job market to a point in a person's life where the consequences of unemployment or underemployment can not be borne socially or financially.

Anthony C. DeCusatis is of counsel in Morgan Lewis's Energy Practice.He also represents and counsels utilities and nonutility energy suppliers on emerging issues created by the transition from regulation to competitive markets.

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