Sentences with phrase «energy interests funding»

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While it's always interesting to know about the top runners, renewable energy companies in various growth stages will become more important as government funding for research and development related to energy efficient, emissions reduction and carbon capture decreases.

Our Global Market Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.

Represented a manager of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainability investments in all aspects of its business, including a management company recapitalization, the continuous public offering of its fund client's interests, and an adviser examination by the SEC.

Since we are value investors who are always interested in companies with deflated share prices, it is natural that clients have frequently asked if we are planning to increase the Fund's energy commitment.

For example, if you are primarily interested in green energy investments, and would like to invest in an ETF or mutual fund, consider the objectives of the fund, in addition to assessing it relative to an alternative energy benchmark index such as the S&P Global Clean Energy Index (SPGTCLEN), NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEenergy investments, and would like to invest in an ETF or mutual fund, consider the objectives of the fund, in addition to assessing it relative to an alternative energy benchmark index such as the S&P Global Clean Energy Index (SPGTCLEN), NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEenergy benchmark index such as the S&P Global Clean Energy Index (SPGTCLEN), NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEEnergy Index (SPGTCLEN), NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEEnergy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEEnergy Index (WAEXPDC).

One way to illustrate this is to compare the «real» federal funds target rate (using core consumption expenditures prices, excluding food and energy) to the so - called «natural real rate of interest,» or «R *.»

And yet, as crazy as the game was, perhaps the most interesting thing that happened Monday night was a staged protest by activists who rappelled from the upper deck of Bank of America Stadium to unfurl a banner directing attention to Bank of America's funding of a North Carolina energy company.

LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski praised Bishop's support of clean energy legislation, saying he «stands with the people of New York who need clean energy jobs now, and not with the Big Oil companies and special interests who are blocking progress in Washington.»

Since the 1970's at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in alternative sources of energy, although funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among other factors.

Boeing, which funded some of his research, is interested in using the energy generated from airplane passengers as they sit, get up and adjust in their seats to power some of the plane's functions such as overhead lights in cabins.

The handful of companies that have emerged in the attempt to get these new energy technologies to market have a business model the same as any technology start - up: Identify a new technology, attempt to patent the idea, raise investor interest and secure funding, build prototypes and have demonstration events, and announce timelines for when working devices might be available for sale.

The first initiative — a combined effort of several U.K. Research Councils called the Energy Programme — will engage universities and businesses that share an interest in energy and work with them to establish research - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in this sEnergy Programme — will engage universities and businesses that share an interest in energy and work with them to establish research - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in this senergy and work with them to establish research - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in this sector.

That potential has attracted the interest of the Department of Energy, which has funded five enhanced geothermal system demonstration projects in the U.S..

Slashing climate and clean energy funds will undermine U.S. business and diplomatic interests and lead to greater security risks for us all.

The key difference is this: Dr. Soon's work is a platform for The Heartland Institute and other political entities to lie and confuse the public and policymakers alike about the seriousness of global warming, funded exclusively by dirty energy interests.

The research also has spurred Congressional inquiries, specifically Mike Connor, Democratic Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, and Craig Harper, Office of U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, and interest from the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund.

The D. radiodurans sequencing project was funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), which is interested in using the microbe in environmental cleanup.

Talking about eggs, an interesting study funded by the American Egg Board found that choosing two eggs for breakfast over a bagel resulted in more weight loss and higher energy levels, even though both breakfasts consisted of the same number of calories.

But at this juncture in his life he did not think that he either (a) had the time, interest, and energy to devote to researching and in effect «trading managers» by trading funds and (b) did not think he had any special skill set or insights that would add value in that process that would justify the time, the one resource he could not replace.

A low fee, broad market exchange traded fund for the U.S. economy as a whole, a global ETF and a Canadian broad ETF equally weighted to reduce concentration in banks and energy, and a 5 to 10 year corporate bond ladder would add diversification with dividends from stocks and interest from bonds and produce a more secure portfolio.

So, the firm takes in revenue from customers in return for the firm's product, and with that revenue pays for raw materials, employee wages, energy, supplies, and pays interest on borrowed funds.

In January, a company called Mosaic, made a splash in the renewable energy world when it introduced a crowd - funding platform that makes it possible for small, non-accredited investors to earn interest financing clean energy projects.

Chinese interests — in energy security, economic growth and development, and macroeconomic stability — directly argue against large - scale implementation of CCS in China unless such an implementation can be almost entirely supported by outside funding.

In this case however, we have an input of disinformation funded by global energy interests.

* Develop a long - term low - interest funding program for clean energy and energy - efficiency investments (household and industry)-- a government - backed clean energy loan program could make a huge difference for people having trouble coming up with the upfront cash to pay for things that will make a big difference in their energy footprint

In short, the paralyzing budget deficit, the weak economy and the lack of bipartisan agreement on climate policy will make for an interesting set of negotiations in terms of developing and funding a broad energy policy.

Nuclear's superior safety record is largely unknown to the Taiwanese people due to a concerted misinformation campaign partially funded by competing energy and financial interests.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

Further fueling these conflict of interest charges, Xcel Energy has been a corporate funder of ALEC in the past and contributes hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to EEI.

In fact, most states with renewable energy standards have chosen to stand by their bipartisan commitments to clean energy, and reject the disinformation campaign funded by fossil fuel and utility interests.

Travis Fisher wrote a 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research, which has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

The Heartland Institute is a fossil fuel - funded front group with over $ 800,000 in contributions from fossil fuel interests that has routinely attacked clean energy policies and the science behind climate change.

HB 560 establishes a revolving fund to provide no - interest loans to any locality, school division, or public institution of higher education for energy conservation or efficiency projects.

The Energy News Network accepts funding from charitable foundations working in the public interest as well as individual donors, and our funders have affirmed that they do not have access to, or oversight of, the editorial process.

Readers who actually want a thorough and careful account of the pros and cons of I - 732 from a policy point of view should read the three detailed articles by the Sightline Institute here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/01/pros-cons-carbonwa-carbon-tax-swap-ballot-initiative-732/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/02/does-initiative-732-carbon-tax-have-a-budget-hole/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/03/weighing-critiques-of-carbonwa-i-732/ Readers who are interested in the messy political conflict over the initiative might start with a couple of Patrick Mazza's articles: http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/11/can-wa-state-climate-policy-train-wreck.html http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/12/wa-climate-initiative-conflict-on-road.html If you want to know why the Alliance's proposal won't do much for low - income families facing higher energy costs as a result of a carbon fee (though it would produce a lot of union trade jobs by funding State infrastructure spending) start here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/16/green-stamps-a-climate-equity-proposal-for-the-pacific-northwest/

«DeSmogBlog was founded, is funded, and is run by a convicted and self - confessed crook, and furthermore that crook is now in the business of running a solar energy corporation and therefore has a direct vested interest in peddling the climate change scare.

The Petition Project has no funding from energy industries or other parties with special financial interests in the «global warming» debate.

Foundation staff made it clear that state deregulation was a vehicle to win RPS, and that support from the network of funders interested in energy policy was contingent on toeing this political line.

The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.

At the new conference, both stressed that this would be in the funds» financial interests, both because energy companies have been underperforming compared to market indices and because any substantial global action to limit climate change could prevent the companies from exploiting all of their oil and gas reserves.

DeSmog Blog was founded, is funded, and is run by a convicted and self - confessed crook, and furthermore that crook is now in the business of running a solar energy corporation (I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF J. LEFEBVRE»S SOLAR INVESTMENTS, BUT TIM LAMBERT AT THE SCIENCE BLOG DELTOID REPORTS HERE THAT MONCKTON IS TALKING ABOUT THE WRONG JOHN LEFEBVRE) and therefore has a direct vested interest in peddling the climate change scare.

Marita Noon is Executive Director of Citizens» Alliance for Responsible Energy, a lobby group funded by New Mexico oil and gas industry interests.

And according to the voluntary register, Koch Industries — the largest privately owned energy company in the United States, known for funding climate denial groups — has a particular interest in lobbying on the «EU's free trade agreement negotiations.»

What's more, there seems to be renewed interest in Federally - funded carbon capture demonstrations in the US, as evidenced in part by this latest Request for Information from the Department of Energy (DOE) titled: «Testing advanced post-combustion carbon dioxide capture technologies at a large pilot scale.»

Universities and professors, funded by fossil fuel and utility special interests, are increasingly producing academic reports, supporting advocacy efforts, and amplifying positions that either recommend policies or provide credence to what the energy industry seeks to achieve in the legislative and regulatory arenas.

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.

Derrick Sontag apparently only cited a range of debunked studies (the «Spanish» study and the flawed Beacon Hill report) and information from Koch - funded interests like the Institute for Energy Research and «State Budget Solutions,» a project of several State Policy Network groups including ALEC and the Mercatus Center, a think tank founded and heavily - funded by the Kochs.

As the records show, Exelon does not hesitate to fund front groups and aggressive political lobbying to advocate for its interests and eliminate pro-clean energy policies when those policies conflict with Exelon's bottom line.

House subcommittee hearing features testimony from people who have received funding from fossil fuel interests and primarily advocate for the continued use of fossil fuels over renewable energy.

Exelon teamed up with the American Energy Alliance (AEA), which is affiliated with the Institute for Energy Research (a group that receives funding from fossil fuel interests and is led by Thomas Pyle, a former Koch Industries lobbyist), to attack the wind production tax credit.