Sentences with phrase «forces power companies»

State law forces power companies to get 10 % of their power from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by next year.

Elected officials on Shelter Island passed a rule that barred PSEG from directly installing a substation on the island, forcing the power company to feed the island power from elsewhere.

Forcing power companies to include renewables in their energy mix is a costly mistake.

By decentralizing power generation, the renewables boom could do to the power industry what the Internet did to the media: Put power in the hands of the little guy, and force power companies to rethink how they do business.

and John Warner, R - Va., would create a carbon «cap and trade» system that would force power companies, manufacturers and the transportation industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent below 2005 levels by 2012, and 71 percent by 2050.

In the meantime, every state in the country has the power to force our power companies to invest in energy efficiency programs, renewable energy, and smart grid technologies that will power us more safely, and also more cheaply, into the next century.

Not exact matches

The controlling and corrupting power of companies and governments come and go, but that fact is a constant force of history.

Rivals caught up to it relatively quickly and took Apple's pricing power away, forcing the company to react by releasing a smaller, cheaper iPad (the Mini).

When private companies abuse and misuse our personal data, Canada's laws are toothless — giving no power to the Privacy Commissioner to issue penalties or force compliance.

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».

Keep in mind that Koch Industries is a private company, nominally beyond the SEC's power to force disclosure.

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall the Company be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of 3rd - parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

Each mart has the basic coffee, fountain, cigarettes, soft drinks, beer and snacks associated with most convenience stores, but being a smaller company and a vacation destination has forced Dion's to constantly update its stores to appeal to two of the biggest buying power groups in the area: tourists and women.

Successful achievers — those of us who have built companies and high - powered careers from the ground up — are especially afraid of being forced to hand over all the fruits of our hard labor and may make the decision never to get involved in a serious relationship again.

Power hoarding forces corruption and paying off of supporter ministers and selling off national companies and banks in between friends.

Joseph Jerome, the principal of JEMB and the moving force behind the Small Business Coalition; Taxpayers for an Affordable New York, an earlier manifestation of the powers behind Jobs for New York; Katrina Peebles, wife of Roy Peebles of the Peebles Corporation, the largest black - owned real estate company in the country and recent buyer of 346 Broadway; Stephen L. Green, real estate magnate and brother of boy wonder Mark Green; Aaron Sirulnick, chairman of the Rent Stabilization Association: these are the hefty contributors to the campaigns of Rafael Espinal, one - term Assembly Member and cutout for the Dilans and Vito Lopez.

Kingsnorth Climate Action and Dartford Liberal Democrat campaigner James Willis called the decision «a local victory for people power which has today forced a multinational power company to shelve plans to bring on stream this huge old fashion Coal Dinosaur.»

That power can be beneficial, as when customers band together to force companies to act more ethically or when bystanders document bad behavior on YouTube.

ACC, another energy award recipient, installed a 14.5 - megawatt solar photovoltaic array at Davis Monthan Air Force Base using a power purchasing agreement, where a power company installed the array and the base agreed to purchase power from it at a similar or lower fixed price.

«I look forward to bringing a new perspective to the company in line with the demands of today's marketplace, marrying the power of its heritage and industrial force with high design and the latest innovations in material and make.»

It warned that university language departments and degree courses were being forced to close; UK companies are losing business because of a lack of language skills; and the UK's «soft power» in conflict and national security matters is being eroded because of «a shortage of speakers of strategically important languages».

However, as it appears that Chevrolet isn't using forced induction, and previous generations of the ZR1 were the highest powered Corvettes, we're left wondering if the company will keep with tradition or essentially swap the Z06 and ZR1 monikers?

While the German company went down the high - tech route with its four - wheel - drive tour de force, the 959, the Italians had something more simple in mind, a car that would combine strength, low weight and power.

So far, 16 power companies and the Navy and Air Force have bought them.

Many companies must use a substantial portion of earnings for forced reinvestment in the business merely to maintain plant and equipment and present earning power.

Grooming Tools / Accessories: Metropolitan Vacuum Cleaner Company — Air Force QuickDraw Portable Pet Dryer The Air Force QuickDraw Portable Pet Dryer is designed for easy handling, power, durability and value.

Speaking out on its first Steam Machine, the Dell owned company has revealed that due to a lack of upgrade options on the Steam OS powered console, it will be forced to launch new models every 12 months.

The Journey Down, Chapter 1: Over the Edge is a point - and - click adventure game that tells the story of Bwana and his friend Kito, two individuals who run a gas station but were forced to find other means of making money when the power company threatens to cut their electrical supply off.

Just last week we learned that Chris Taylor, the developer behind Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander, was forced to lay off a significant number of people from his company Gas Powered Games after the Kickstarter campaign for their game Wildman was met with underwhelming funding rates.

SWAPtoberfest will feature Skylanders SWAP Force - themed activities, photos with Skylanders costumed characters as well as chances to win a Skylanders SWAP Force Starter Pack and special Skylanders - themed merchandise from top companies like MEGA Brands, Rubie's Costume Company, Hybrid Apparel and Power A.

Unfortunately, the big companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, have so much market power they may force us down this road nevertheless.

In return, the utility companies would not have to build cooling towers on their Hudson River power plants; they would instead regulate how the plants were operated so as to minimize the fish kills, they would not be forced to follow the strict letter of the Clean Water Act, to use the «best available technology» to mitigate the fish kills caused by their thermal pollution.

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 power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Power Plan.

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 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 power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

So they have decided on a public relations strategy to blame «evil» power companies and «other polluters» for rate increases rather than their own actions in trying to force states to use expensive and unreliable «renewable» sources of electricity.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Meanwhile, RMP plans to shut down a relic, the Carbon Power Plant in Helper, by next April, a move the company and the state say could exceed any new reductions forced on the nearby Emery County plants.

The country's energy policy has already forced it to pay wind farms $ 548 million to switch off last year to prevent damage to the electric grid, according to a survey of power companies by the German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche.

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

A «strange bedfellows» alliance between environmentalists and the state Tea Party — promptly dubbed the «Green Tea» coalition — successfully lobbied the Public Service Commission to force Georgia Southern, the state's dominant power company, to buy 525 megawatts of solar power.

First, the distribution companies are often forced to sell power to rural customers at a loss, something which they cope with by restricting sales to rural areas and increasing sales to industrial customers, who are charged a premium.

And this is a big asset for this company, you know, they own this thing at a time when California forced them and the other utilities to sell most of their power plants years ago.

After opening the world's first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant designed to pull CO2 out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world's first «negative emission» power plant.

State Attorneys General led by Elliott Spitzer of New York are asking that the federal courts force energy companies to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, declaring that power plant emissions are responsible for global warming.

The company's wave - power system acts as a sort of hydraulic pump that converts the vertical motion of waves into pressurized sea water, which in turn drives a piston that forces sea water through a turbine.

Yup, a bike and a byte company have joined forces to promote the benefits of human powered ingenuity.

Condolences to you if your company is too cheap to afford a real forklift and forces you to use this human powered one.

The bulk of the recent stories about Cambridge Analytica, parent company SCL and their alleged ties to the Trump and Brexit campaigns was not news in itself: stories have been circulating for months about billionaires, political strategists and power - brokers joining forces with data scientists to target key demographics in both elections.

While it is welcome that this government - commissioned report has attempted to clarify the position of a large proportion of the work force, much more needs to be done to redress the imbalance in power between large companies like this and their staff.