Sentences with phrase «from big energy companies»

I do nt see as to how you can make a switch away from the big energy companies without the counterwight - at first - of govt at either local or national level.

Not exact matches

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oil.

Salesforce cofounder and CEO Marc Benioff draws inspiration for his company's constant innovation from everywhere, even the residual energy from the dormant volcano underneath his vacation home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

For instance, battery startup Stem raised $ 45 million from investors last year, including from the energy trading arm of big German power company RWE Group.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

But the two biggest U.S. energy companies were forced to slash costs to stay ahead of plunging revenues from their oil - and - gas production businesses.

Incentives and policy instruments to encourage entrepreneurs and start - up companies, and promote projects like community energy initiatives, as evidence suggests that fresh thinking and innovation often comes from small organisations rather than the «big players».

The government has denied it is resorting to begging the «big six» energy companies to stop raising prices until 2015, prompting an avalanche of scorn from the left.

Lisa Percoco turned down a big salary cut before getting laid off from her $ 90,000 - a-year position with the energy company, her then - supervisor told jurors.

Energy companies I used to work for SSE, one of the Big Six, so I know them from the inside... I was privileged because I learnt a huge amount, and to respect many of the people working there, because they do quite a difficult job keeping the lights on.

Miliband also pledged to «break up the big six» energy companies so that their producing arms are separated from their energy supplying arms.

Lisa Percoco turned down a big salary cut before getting laid off from her $ 90,000 - a-year position with the Competitive Power Ventures energy company, her then - supervisor told jurors.

FuelCell Energy is one of a handful of companies investigating how to address one of the biggest barriers in trying to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants for later storage underground, an unproved concept.

Only 7 per cent of new energy is coming from big power companies; most is coming from small players, consumer cooperatives, producer cooperatives, farmers and people living in cities.

The authors acknowledge funding from the U.S. Department of Energy; the National Energy Technology Laboratory; the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership; Shell Exploration & Production Company; Portland General Electric; and Schlumberger Inc..

With ECC, it's best of both worlds: top - tier curriculum that's in sync with the bigger, older «name brand» institutions, together with the personal support and positive energy that comes from a younger, smaller company whose founder and initial founding faculty are completely hands - on.

It's a big reason why the company was able to attract a substantial amount of private investment, not to mention a cool $ 529 million from the Department of Energy.

These range from Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), the biggest energy company in the world, to Octagon 88 (OCT: OCTX), a small cap operating in Canada with very promising holdings.

If renewables were just a crack - pot, no - threat - to - big - energy situation, my electric company wouldn't be doing their best to get free electricity from me — 3MWH is a lot of electricity and they want it from me and I ain't giving it away.

Smoky Thanksgiving from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, providing Americans with an ample dose of mercury, smog, acid rain, polluted drinking water, ocean acidification, fouled landscapes and global warming every day.

The BEST way to reduce Global Warming is to reject the PR spin from the entrenched energy companies, and by electing legislators who are not in the pocket of big - coal so we can get on with the job.

At the same time, the world's biggest energy companies, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, are sitting on a virtual mountain of coal, oil, and gas.

This enduring notion — that the world can have its coal and climate, too, by pumping the carbon dioxide from combustion into the earth — has been promoted by institutions including Peabody Energy, the world's biggest coal company (see its coal - sales ticker here), and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

I spoke Monday with David B. South, the co-inventor of a dome manufacturing process 37 years ago whose company, Monolithic Dome, has been erecting storm - safe domed school buildings from Sarasota, Fla., through Geronimo, Okla., and Lumberton, Tex., and even west to Payson, Ariz. (where the benefits include the big energy savings that come with thick insulation and concrete).

The ads were sponsored by a local group but paid for with contributions from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, and a Kansas utility, Sunflower Electric Power.

Here's a company that's gotten a commitment of big dollars ($ 1.5 B) from a private equity firm to create clean energy projects.

For example, Lucia Graves at Huffington Post compiled statements from Ohio and Texas's biggest providers of coal energy, which show some of the energy companies themselves seem to welcome the President's plan:

RE100 is engaging some of the biggest, most globally recognized US companies from a wide range of sectors on a journey to becoming 100 % powered by renewable energy.

Big energy companies are under increasing pressure from investors to disclose how rising global temperatures and mitigating associated climate risks may impact them.

Whatley created the CEA with backing from big energy producers BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Marathon, Shell and the Norwegian energy company Statoil.

The big global energy companies, like Exxon and BP, are perfectly capable of shifting their focus from oil to gas and if the market gets large enough, to renewables.

Sierra Club TIME — 2 February 2012 Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $ 25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.From the Natural Gas Industry TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $ 25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.....

At Google's annual shareholder meeting today, the company faced an uprising from stakeholder groups and shareholders over its membership in and financial support for lobbying groups that include some of the biggest opponents to climate change and renewable energy on offer in Washington, DC, a town which boasts quite a collection.

Three speakers offered varied opinions on the future of electric generation: a wind energy proponent, someone from a company that has wind and nuclear, and a consultant who looks at the big picture trends.

If the world moves towards low - carbon energy, as it should — and the big integrated fossil fuel companies fail to adapt — then divesting from oil, gas and coal investments could turn out to be smart business, as well as a good, albeit symbolic, politics.

For example, in the UK, Patrick Erwin went from head of Energy Markets and Infrastructure Strategy and Programme Office at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to working for the biggest UK fracking company, INEOS shale.

Watchdog groups claim that powerful big solar companies worked to exclude homeowners from the state's energy mix.

While some of the reduction from the big oil companies is probably due to the crash in oil prices that began in 2014, leading to lower activity across the energy industry, all five majors have enacted climate and efficiency policies, as well as anti-pollution measures, the report said.

The wind energy industry's development also has generated regional economic benefits, especially in Gaspésie, but it is also important to recognize its impact on Montréal, which over the years has become the biggest wind energy industry hub in eastern North America, where companies from Quebec and abroad co-exist.

Ebell, whose work has been funded by some of the nation's worst polluters, like Murray Energy, the nation's largest coal mining company, said, «I would like to have more funding [from big coal] so that I can combat the nonsense put out by the environmental movement.»

[1] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors, which it says «determine the U.S. Chamber's policy positions on business issues and advise the U.S. Chamber on appropriate strategies to pursue,» includes representation from the fossil fuel industry such as ConocoPhillips and Consol Energy (one of the biggest coal producers in the US), large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Bayer, and the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private sector coal company, has agreed to make more robust disclosures to its investors about the financial risks it faces from future government policies and regulations related to climate change and other environmental issues that could reduce demand for its product.

many years ago I planned out what it would take to install a grid tie solar system big enough to have net zero energy use from the central utility company on my big house (3380 sq ft heated / cooled + all electrical).

(It was a more streamlined bill that limited pollution from big «upstream» energy companies — think coal mining and oil production — and didn't allow a freewheeling market in carbon - pollution credits.)

And our biggest energy companies, utilities and auto companies became dependent on cheap hydrocarbons that spin off climate - changing greenhouse gases, and we clearly have not forced them, through a carbon tax, to price in the true risks and costs to society from these climate - changing fuels.

In the past, these IPCC reports have turned into a lightning rod for attacks by organizations like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who claim to tout freedom and liberty as their cause, but enjoy big dollar sponsorship from coal and oil companies like Koch Industries, Murray Energy, and ExxonMobil.

Denmark's biggest energy company, DONG Energy, is halfway through a 10 - year transformation journey from a reliance on fossil fuels to sustainable and non-polluting eenergy company, DONG Energy, is halfway through a 10 - year transformation journey from a reliance on fossil fuels to sustainable and non-polluting eEnergy, is halfway through a 10 - year transformation journey from a reliance on fossil fuels to sustainable and non-polluting energyenergy.

Moving north from B.C., geography plays one of the biggest factors in the work Margaret Hollis does as in - house counsel — and the only one — for Qulliq Energy Corp. in Nunavut, an electrical company that serves 25 communities, many with under 2,000 people, not accessible by road.

While some of the biggest internet companies in the world — like Google, Apple and Facebook — have been investing in clean energy to run their data centers, Amazon has mostly shied away from publicly committing to using energy like solar and wind for Amazon Web Services.