Sentences with phrase «largest electricity company»

In the long, hot, powerless days after Hurricane Irma, Miamians grew all sorts of irate at Florida Power & Light, South Florida's largest electricity company.

I work at a large electricity company in New Zealand.

Not exact matches

Continental Europe boasts the world's largest synchronous electricity grid — energy flows freely across the borders of 25 countries, at a fixed frequency of 50 Hz that is maintained by close coordination between the region's power companies.

It acquired such companies as Edison Mission Energy and Alta Wind, making it one of the largest retail electricity providers in the U.S., and which had the added benefit of coming with over half a million new customers.

Jigar Shah, the founder of large solar company SunEdison and a clean tech advocate, thinks between 90 percent and 95 percent of electricity will come from renewable sources in 2039.

Such serial cancellations «send a negative signal both to global manufacturers and Indian companies who are looking to diversify into lithium ion battery manufacturing,» Dash said, adding that «the Central Electricity Authority is considering regulation to make storage mandatory for large - scale solar projects ranging between 100 and 200 MW.»

** Brazilian electricity company Energisa said on Thursday its board has approved a bid to buy Eletropaulo, Brazil's largest power distribution company, for 19.38 reais per share.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

The parent company of Ontario's largest electricity utility reported its fourth - quarter profit was up more than 20 per cent year - over-year.

But small server rooms, or even closets, employed by smaller companies the world over, typically do not have computers with the most efficient cooling and use up to twice as much electricity per computation as the more effective computers employed by many large computing companies.

One result of these experiments was that a company donated a large electricity generator that operated on natural gas.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

During the first half of the twentieth century, electric companies purchased large quantities for immense electricity - storing devices like transformers.

A senior research engineer gave him this advice when he joined a large electricity generating company's «research studies» sector: «Remember to always ask your client what answer they expect to get before you start the experiment.

The company ventured into electricity generation with its Solar Roof tiles, moved closer to fully autonomous cars with Autopilot 2.0 and started the construction of its Gigafactory — which will be the largest production facility in the world when completed, but it also had to go through troubles as its share price kept fluctuating due to the uncertainty around its merger with SolarCity.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

In Australia, its wholly - owned subsidiary TRUenergy is one of the largest integrated energy companies providing gas and electricity to over 2.8 million customers.

EDP is the largest generator, distributor and supplier of electricity in Portugal and the third largest electricity generation company in Spain.

by Gas & Electricity The «Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement» was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies.

Not to be outdone, a partnership between Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, (Europe's largest solar energy research center), and two French companies developed a multi-junction solar cell that converts 46 percent of solar light into electricity.

The company, which describes itself as «the world's largest private - sector coal company and the only global pure - play coal investment», claims that it fuels approximately 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States and 2 % of electricity generated throughout the world.

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.

As a real world example, the capacity factors at the Queanbeyan Solar Farm (an industrial installation run by Country Energy, one of Australia's largest electricity distribution companies) average 13 % all year round, 9 % for 3 months of winter, and down to less than 1 % on some days: http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/08/16/solar-power-realities-supply-demand-storage-and-costs/

PORTUGAL: The Chinese state - owned electricity company China Three Gorges (CTG) announced a $ 3.26 / share offer to acquire 100 % of the Portuguese generator EDP, in which it is the largest shareholder with a 23.27 % stake.

The individual consumer could then use their consumer power and choose whether they are prepared to support (be a customer) with a company which is potentially making most of its money from Fossil fuels or Nuclear but then adds a large amount to invest in renewable energy OR not be associated with companies which deal in fossil fuel based electricity at all: i.e. not supporting = not being part of the problem philosophy — OR any cross-over between the two.

Subsidies not related to electricity production are amoung the largest to solar companies when normalised to electricity production.

«The rehabilitation process appears to be too focused on large electricity infrastructure projects, while the government and company policy objectives appear not to have been established,» said William C. Ramsay, Deputy Executive Director of the IEA.

A promising development is that last year the Federation of Electric Power Companies, the industry association representing the 10 largest electricity generators in Japan and 19 suppliers, agreed to limit their emissions by 35 percent by 2030, which is a voluntary but significant reduction and may increase demand for JCM project credits.

For large companies who have a direct supply and transmission contract with a specific electricity supplier, the best place to look would be the electricity supplier itself.

The lobbying campaign was initiated by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), whose membership includes electric utilities such as Southern Company and American Electric Power, two of largest air - borne mercury polluters in the country.

In future, the company expects to secure 75 - 85 % of its purchased electricity through direct Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), and has just signed its first with Iberdrola in Mexico, home to its largest brewery, in Zacatecas.

«Access to electricity fuels progress and drives health and longevity,» Peabody Energy Corp., the world's largest private - sector coal company, said on its website.

As I documented extensively in my book Heat, and as sites like DeSmogBlog and Exxonsecrets show, there is a large and well - funded campaign by oil, coal and electricity companies to insert their views into the media.

The merged company will have a dominant position in electricity generation in both east and west Denmark, own most of the electricity and natural gas distributors and control a large share of Denmark's gas storage.

David Ratcliffe is the president, CEO and chairman of Southern Company, one of America's largest producers of coal fired electricity...

The individual consumer could then use their consumer power and choose whether they are prepared to support (be a customer) with a company which maybe making most of its money from Fossil fuels or Nuclear but then adds a large amount to invest in renewable energy OR not be associated with companies which deal in fossil fuel based electricity at all: i.e. not supporting = not being part of the problem philosophy — OR any cross-over between the two.

When Whole Foods Markets (Research) announced in January that it would buy all of its electricity from wind farms, making itself the corporate world's largest consumer of renewable energy, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called them «the most patriotic company in America.»

The greatest of these is the dominance of large incumbent companies at all levels of the electricity and natural gas markets.

Natural gas, generally, emits half the amount of CO2 per unit of electricity as oil does, so it makes sense for big petroleum companies to lean on this resource more as a way to position their respective asset mixes as lower carbon and secure an even larger piece of the global carbon budget.

Guest Post from Marilynn Marsh - Robinson with Environmental Defense Fund: Most Americans think their electricity comes from large power companies.

And well - connected energy companies win large state contracts which contribute to rising electricity rates and air pollution.

The company has already put forward plans to reward large electricity users that can turn their factories off during peak power demand, with a view to freeing up capacity across the network.

In September last year the company revealed its new evian bottling site in France, the largest food production site to achieve carbon neutrality and completely powered by renewable electricity.

In order to estimate the revenues of the industries that were involved in fossil fuel production, transportation, refining, and electricity generation, I used the Fortune Global 500 list of the largest publicly - traded companies in 2008 (published in 2009).

The Feed in Tariff is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in Renewable Energy, the California FiT allows eligible customers generators to enter into 10 - 15 - 20 - year contracts with their utility company to sell the electricity produced by renewable energy, and guarantees that anyone who generates electricity from R E source, whether Homeowner, small business, or large utility, is able to sell that electricity.

The report, titled Walmart's Dirty Energy Secret: How the Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, found that the company is «one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity,» and that Walmart's dependence on dirty power «pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, found that the company is «one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity,» and that Walmart's dependence on dirty power «pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.company is «one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity,» and that Walmart's dependence on dirty power «pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.»

According to company press information, «The Lightsource private - wire Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) will see large - scale solar sites «hard - wired» directly into large electricity users — comfortably beating the retail price that they are paying for electricity.»

This follows the practice advising Edify Energy on the development, financing and equity transfer to build and operate two - large scale solar farms in Northern Queensland in one of Australia's largest solar portfolio financings to date; advising Sydney Motorway Corporation on the A$ 14.9 billion WestConnex motorway project; and advising IFM Investors and AustralianSuper in their A$ 16.189 billion acquisition of stated owned electricity company, Ausgrid.

Recent transactions: • Representing, the airport managers, in the PPP in relation to the new airport for Dakar • Representing Indian conglomerate Jindal Power in a USD 900 million, 350 megawatt power plant deal with the state electricity company, Senelec — the largest energy deal ever in Senegal Publications: 10 Things to know about PPPs in Senegal, Louisa Gibbs, IFLR 1000 Insight, 2015