Sentences with phrase «large utilities have»

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Berkshire has more than 90 operating units, including large businesses such as the BNSF railroad, Geico auto insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, and smaller businesses making Dairy Queen ice cream, Duracell batteries, Fruit of the Loom underwear, Ginsu knives and the World Book encyclopedia.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

As rising rates and tariff talk threatened large multinationals and caused a stock market correction beginning in February, some investors have turned to domestically oriented utilities with steady cash flow as a potential safe haven.

Merkle wouldn't say if Ford expected sales of larger SUVs to eventually outpace compact utilities, a segment that's surged past family sedans like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.

«It is a process because we're dealing with very large customers — utilities — that have a very rigorous and regulated approach,» says Sutterfield.

Very large industrial and commercial factories or customers already have systems like this in place and are probably already working with their local utility [companies].

Puerto Rico is grappling with the largest municipal debt crisis in U.S. history, with both its government and the public utility having filed for bankruptcy protection amid fights with creditors.

As facilities such as oil refineries and large electrical utilities become ever more reliant on remote - control systems linked by far - flung digital networks, the demand for highly reliable security has taken off.

Utilities and manufacturing industries have large infrastructure costs that generally make up a much greater portion of their spending than salaries.

Pricing Strategy Shaved Ice is a product that yields a considerable profit in terms of cost to produce at $ 0.12 for a small cup to $ 0.30 for an extra large will be offered at the following prices: Small $ 1.50 Medium $ 2.00 Large $ 3.00 X-Large $ 4.00 Break - even Analysis Estimated monthly fixed expenses for a single store including rent, labor and utilities of $ 5,100 would require approximate 80 cups / day sales generating approximately $ 5,550 with a gross profit of $ 5large will be offered at the following prices: Small $ 1.50 Medium $ 2.00 Large $ 3.00 X-Large $ 4.00 Break - even Analysis Estimated monthly fixed expenses for a single store including rent, labor and utilities of $ 5,100 would require approximate 80 cups / day sales generating approximately $ 5,550 with a gross profit of $ 5Large $ 3.00 X-Large $ 4.00 Break - even Analysis Estimated monthly fixed expenses for a single store including rent, labor and utilities of $ 5,100 would require approximate 80 cups / day sales generating approximately $ 5,550 with a gross profit of $ 5Large $ 4.00 Break - even Analysis Estimated monthly fixed expenses for a single store including rent, labor and utilities of $ 5,100 would require approximate 80 cups / day sales generating approximately $ 5,550 with a gross profit of $ 5,150.

Many of the rules changes that large firms advocate would make the utility of a patent right uncertain, according to Conley.

Mr. Baker has a law degree from the University of Florida School of Law, and his experience as a lawyer and member of the board of a large public utility company also contributes important risk management and regulatory oversight skills to the Board.

Arnuk and Saluzzi argue that the evolution of exchanges from not - for - profit «quasi utilities» to for - profit businesses has distorted incentives so that exchanges are now beholden to high - frequency traders, who make up a large share of their business.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy BarrilleauUtility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleauutility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

I'd basically turn the large banking oligopoly into a utility to finance an infrastructure build - out.

In Southern California, a number of water utilities have begun to install large batteries alongside their pumping plants and water treatment facilities.

Mr. Baker has a law degree from the University of Florida School of Law, and his experience as a lawyer and member of the board of a large public utility company also contribute important risk management and regulatory oversight skills to the Board.

A trio of solar projects has become Australia's first utility - scale solar PV portfolio acquisition and financing deal, raising hopes that large - scale projects will find long - term financing more easily in the future.

Since 1970, their average P / E multiple has been about two - thirds of the S&P, and 90 % of the time utility stocks have sold at a larger discount than they do today.

Spanish utility Iberdrola and its Italian rival, Enel, have submitted rival bids for Eletropaulo Metropolitana, Brazil's largest power distribution company, which is based in the wealthy Sao Paulo area.

It already has a deal with Florida - based NextEra Energy to supply the parent company of Florida's largest utility with seven million panels over four years — one of the largest orders to date.

«Hydro One has slapped us in the face by going shopping for a utility that owns one of the largest polluters in the U.S. northwest,» added Angela Bishoff of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

For those looking to dip their toe in the water utility space, we think investors would be well served taking a closer look at the U.S.'s two largest players, American Water Works Co. (AWK) and Aqua America (WTR).

If you forget to get these utilities marked, you might have to cater very large repair bills that the utility companies will require you to pay, which will only be an added burden to your already burdened pocket.

There is less hardware that needs repair, and the responsibility for the grid often falls to the people that are on it, creating strong incentive to maintain infrastructure and get it back up quickly compared to a large, central utility which has to weigh the needs of all of its customers.

The Italian government holds the largest stake in Enel, and it is trading at what we think is an unreasonable discount to the European utility sector.3 The company has a new CEO, nominated by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has been given a mandate to clean up the corporate structure, drive down costs and drive up earnings.

I happen to hold three, ED, SO and D and while not a large part of my portfolio I feel every long term dividend investor should find some space for a utility or two.

Similarly, railroads and utilities and master limited partnerships build up large infrastructure that is either protected from competition due to having a regulated monopoly, or it simply would be self - destructive for a competitor to try to copy, like building a new set of railroad tracks right alongside a competitor that can't get enough traffic to justify its costs since there's already an established route there.

Only a very small number of companies have set long - term (2030 or later) targets which can be considered to be in line with a sectoral 2 °C pathway.282 An analysis of 70 of the world's largest publicly listed corporate emitters, across the aluminium, cement, chemicals and electric utilities sectors, found that 21 had targets up to 2020 which could be considered consistent with a 2 °C sectoral pathway, but only 7 had targets to 2030 or later.283 Twenty others had non-2 °C or «irrelevant» targets, and the rest had none at all.

Before the mission program could have real utility it had to have the support of large numbers of church people.

I work for a water utility company and we have a large fat oils and grease campaign on.

Telstra fears that utilities that have large retail customer bases will use the Layer 2 service to replace services provided by telcos then offer telco services direct to their retail customers.

Despite being a large stroller, parents make comments that they can fit their BOB Sport Utility Stroller into their car trunks without having to remove the wheels.

Without her, Downtown would never have secured $ 200 million of 9/11 money originally slated for large utilities, but which the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. had been sitting on for years.

Following two massive snowstorms that left large portions of the Hudson Valley in the dark, elected officials, from Congress to town supervisors, have berated utility companies that serve the lower Hudson Valley for their response to the first storm.

Flanagan's proposal (S6651) * would immediately end the ZEC mandate and refund about $ 80 million that utilities and large industrial customers have already paid.

-RRB- * would immediately end the ZEC mandate and refund about $ 80 million that utilities and large industrial customers have already paid.

A New York utility, the Long Island Power Authority, plans to construct a wind farm off eastern Long Island that would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project, three times larger than one due to go online this year off Rhode Island.

Consolidated Edison Inc., the largest utility company in New York state, has given $ 250,000 to the powerful Committee to Save New York, one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's key allies whose political spending has come under scrutiny in recent months.

The commission represents a decision on Cuomo's part to take responsibility for the other utilities, and to affect a large - scale reform that voters will remember long after his mishandling of LIPA has been forgotten.

«One of the main reasons large scale solar development is initiated is because the utilities issue requests for proposals for projects, and that's exactly what happened on Long Island,» said Chris Wiedemann, director of development for S Power Solar, a West Coast company that had three projects chosen in April by LIPA, one each in Calverton, Southold and Shoreham.

As a result of the agreement, the Fund withdrew the shareholder proposal it had filed for consideration at Goodyear's annual stockholders» meeting, as well as with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United States.

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

The state is beginning to see a shift, however, as a number of large utility - scale solar arrays have been announced for the state, including Recurrent's 150 - MW array in West Texas.

But there was a silver lining: Small communities that purchased treated water from larger utilities — especially privately owned ones — had fewer violations.

Simply put, even the largest utilities do not have the capital to build a $ 7 billion reactor, and such large projects have a tendency to see costs balloon as projects are delayed.

A «triple subsidy,» say enviros The resulting data should help reassure state public utility commissions — which have rejected many large projects out of cost concerns — about the viability and accuracy of the technology, Finley said.

When a frigid cold wave knocked out 50 power plants in Texas during February's Super Bowl week, utilities had to impose rolling blackouts across entire communities with a «blunt ax,» said Robert Shapard, CEO of Dallas - based Oncor, the state's largest transmission company.

Together the five utilities serve roughly half of Japan's geographic area, including the largest island prefectures, and have peak demand load of roughly 50,000 megawatts.

Before its advent, researchers often used maize, but maize has a long life cycle and a large genome, limiting its utility.