Sentences with phrase «electricity industry»

The plan would require improved efficiency and emissions rate reductions across the entire electricity industry.
The Global Electricity Initiative aims to build an international community of electricity industry leaders.
He co-founded and built Carnegie Mellon's Electricity Industry Center, which today is the largest interdisciplinary group of its kind working on all aspects of the electric power industry.
The report, «Expensive Neighbors: The Hidden Cost of Harmful Pollution to Downwind Employers and Businesses» by electricity industry expert Dr. Charles J. Cicchetti finds that power plants without SO2 and NOx scrubbers are imposing an estimated $ 6 billion in annual costs on downwind businesses.
Established in 2015, the Canadian Council on Renewable Electricity is a non-partisan organization that allows Canada's leading national renewable electricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering economic growth.
Established in 2015, CanCORE is a non-partisan organization that allows Canada's leading national renewable electricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering economic growth.
«An endgame is now underway in the renewable energy scam that has been responsible for destroying the nation's electricity industry as a low - cost, efficient and self - managing sector... countering the debilitating effect of the self - imposed cancer is beyond the end of the beginning it has a long way to go before we have anything like the market we once had.»
Gov. O'Malley has consistendy and vocally proclaimed his belief that a fully regulated and monopoly electricity industry is best for his state.
With more wind power, new nuclear plants, carbon capture and storage, and increased efficiency, electricity industry group says significant greenhouse gas reductions possible
David Slater told electricity industry executives that the cleanest option for burning coal and oil is a system called integrated gasification and combined cycle.
EOS Russia (EOS: SS): EOS is a Swedish listed closed - end fund which invests entirely in the Russian electricity industry.
As a Senior Consultant for La Capra Associates, he advised the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources on the terms and conditions for restructuring the Massachusetts electricity industry.
After annual average growth of about 50 percent for five years, the U.S. electricity industry installed a total of 1 gigawatt - hour of new storage capacity between 2013 and 2017, according to the firm GTM Research.
«Because they recognize the essential role that electricity from coal plays in protecting the environment while providing over half of the electricity used each day in the U.S., America's coal - based electricity industry (producers, transporters, and electricity generators) have provided the primary initial funding for this worthwhile project.»
A series of electricity industry reports has highlighted the inequity in existing power pricing where customers without solar panels are unfairly subsidising those with them.
MacGill, I., H. Outhred, and K. Nolles, 2006: Some design lessons from market - based greenhouse gas regulation in the restructured Australian electricity industry.
Erdogdu, Erkan (2011): What happened to efficiency in electricity industries after reforms?
GTM Research is now Wood Mackenzie, the leading market analysis and advisory firm on the transformation of the global electricity industry.
In place of these, the OEB's new objectives are to: (1) «protect the interests of consumers with respect to prices and the adequacy, reliability and quality of electricity service»; and (2) «Promote economic efficiency and cost effectiveness in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale and demand management of electricity and to facilitate the maintenance of a financially viable electricity industry».
In 2015 she was appointed as a member of the Alberta Securities Commission, due to her expert counsel in an array of electric utility hearings, including those arising from the restructuring of the Alberta electricity industry.
Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.
The North Sea, a relatively mature oil and gas basin with a thriving renewable electricity industry, is already seeing some crossover between the sectors: some large oil and gas companies are major players in offshore wind; one former oil and gas company, Ørsted in Denmark, has moved entirely to wind and other renewables.
«Following the separation... the electricity industry should not be maintained as a single vertical monopoly controlling, transmission, distribution, generation and sale of electricity.»
While the global water industry is diversified and, in terms of committed capital, ranks on par with the oil, gas and electricity industries, it's attracted little private investment.
Business Insider forwarded the new USGS study and map to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC), which regulates the state's electricity industry.
The president did not mention NV Energy by name — instead calling out several utilities around the country that have put pro-solar policies in place and are working to figure out how to transition the electricity industry from a simple provider to an integrated system of distribution.
NERC's annual Grid Security Conference (GridSecCon) series brings together cyber security and physical security experts from industry and government to share emerging security trends, policy advancements, and lessons learned related to the electricity industry.
Her focus throughout that period has been largely on the technical, infrastructure and economic issues underpinning the electricity industry, covering topics related to generation, transmission and distribution, smart grid / smart homes and the prospects for electric vehicles.
«At that event, he said «I congratulate our new owners who have taken over the engines and cables that are expected to drive not just the electricity industry but also the socio - economic well - being of the natio».
A Milwaukee alderman is facing early resistance to his proposal to deregulate the state's electricity industry.
To best prepare for the impact of disruptive events, the electricity industry — in coordination with regional and state agencies, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the North American Electric Reliability Corp. — should expand its efforts to convene regional emergency preparedness exercises.
«Decarbonizing the electric sector is job one for the electricity industry,» adds Henry «Hank» Courtright, a senior vice president at the Palo Alto, Calif. — based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
In the electricity industry, an «unbalanced load» is not just untidy, it can mean blackouts and brownouts: bad news for local economies.
The festive lights are partly powered by the Sun — at least, according to officials from the electricity industry, who are keen to persuade people of the virtues of solar power.
According to energy experts, this upheaval in Britain's electricity industry is one of the unforeseen consequences of the nonfossil fuel obligation (NFFO), the government's scheme for promoting renewable energy sources.
«There are a lot of levers we could potentially pull here,» said Kellen Schefter, manager of sustainable technology at the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group that represents 70 percent of the electricity industry.
«It should be noted that the coal industry is gradually being opened to market economy, while the electricity industry is still highly regulated in China.»
The money will come from the electricity industry.
The advisory group also reported that the public believes the electricity industry is «less than frank» with the information it is providing about EMFs.
In what can be described as an electric premise, «The Current War» depicts Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) as they go head to head for control of the electricity industry.
The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.
I am surprised a Finn who is involved with the electricity industry isn't better informed.
Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.
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.
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EPA regulations on mercury and other air pollutants currently under review are the subject of much debate for their potential costs and impacts on the electricity industry.
The electricity industry transformation is driven in large part by changing customer preferences — specifically, ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets — and the rising competition for their business.
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