Sentences with phrase «more than utility»

The expanded support for voice calls and messaging is the latest example of how Amazon's Alexa app is becoming more than a utility for managing the settings on Echo devices or Alexa's smart home integrations.

Rooftop solar costs significantly more than utility - scale solar, according to a new study that's stoking debate throughout the energy community, but critics say that price isn't everything.

More information about the 2007 BMW X3: BMW prefers to call their AWD vehicles Sport Activity Vehicles, the emphasis really is on the sport more than the utility.

If you want your luxury SUV to emphasize sport more than utility, then a new BMW X4 might be just the ticket.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in February that the state was taking tough new measures against energy marketing companies, also known as ESCOs, after data showed some were charging more than utilities for gas and electricity supply.

If the supply of allowances is more than utilities need, then prices of the allowances to pollute will remain low and provide no incentive for carbon - cutting measures.

Not exact matches

If they do, electric utility industry revenue will decline sharply, with certain utilities service areas more vulnerable than others.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he would heed President Obama's call to preserve net neutrality — that is, treat broadband internet service providers as utilities (subject to more rigorous regulation than previously) to maintain equal access for all to the internet.

Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

«If you think of your iPhone, its utility is fundamentally more than just the phone and the camera,» Flannery said.

Having helped build more than a hundred apps from categories ranging from social networking, utility, entertainment and lifestyle, I get asked a lot of questions by entrepreneurs and businesses on the entire process of building and marketing apps.

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.

Canada's utility sector is up 9.5 % in the first 11 months of the year, REITs have risen 7.5 % and several telecoms are up more than 8 %.

Nearly everything is more affordable than in the U.S. Expats report that basic utilities tend to run around $ 20 per month, thanks in part to the mild weather which requires little heating or no air conditioning and the government subsidies on liquid petroleum.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

Our tester was equipped with all - wheel - drive, and while it was fine for whatever we threw at it in the suburbs and the big city, the proclivity toward a rear - wheel bias means that the Stelvio is more for the «sport» part of SUV than the «utility» part.

A look at this list as a whole reveals something altogether more interesting than who had the greatest number of grumpy customers: of the worst 20 companies in the index, seven were telecommunications companies, five were airlines, and four were public utilities.

We also contacted Allete, a company whose Minnesota Power (MP) utility serves more than 140,000 state residents and «some of the nation's largest industrial customers.»

Western Australia's state - owned electric utility Western Power says it will cut 175 jobs on top of more than 320 positions that were axed in June.

Indeed, nowhere are the barricades being stormed more aggressively than in PG&E's home, California, whose mandate for change is more audacious than any other state's: Its law requires that 50 % of utilities» power be generated by renewable sources by 2030.

Vistra Energy will buy Dynegy in an all - stock deal, the U.S. utilities said on Monday, creating a company with a market value of more than $ 10 billion.

That's why in 2012 they launched New York City - based Temboo, a repository of programming processes that developers can use to connect to code utilities, databases and more than 100 application programming interfaces (APIs) for online services ranging from Amazon Web Services cloud storage to real - estate site Zillow.

They connected us with our utility provider, PG&E, who we were paying more than $ 7,000 per month.

It is such an integral part of so many people's social lives and patterns of communication, and it has so few real competitors, that I think it is in some ways more like a public utility than like a private company.

with rare exception, are more expensive than utilities,» Musk admitted.

More than half were in Virginia Beach and the surrounding area, according to utility owner Dominion Energy Inc..

Because of obscure utility regulations, you could be billed for more than you use.

That would be a more than 100 megawatt project for utility Southern California Edison in the Los Angeles area.

Tech shares have risen more than banks, utilities, health firms, energy companies or consumer brands.

Last year, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada issued a report finding that rooftop solar customers actually give back more to the grid than they cost.

My dream business is a utility supply company that is internet - based, and spans more than one regional market.

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

California has set a new record for peak output of utility - scale solar at more than 10.5 GW, as well as for renewable energy overall.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

For more than 23 years — from 1984 to 2007 — Mr. Bralver was a founder and Vice Chairman of management consultancy Oliver, Wyman & Co. where he specialized in strategy, risk and operational work for leading investment banks, asset managers, exchanges and other market utilities.

Along with the 3.5 GW of PURPA projects already online or in the queue, this is expected to allow North Carolina to reach 6.8 GW of utility - scale solar by 2022 — more than double the roughly 3 GW that the state had online by the end of 2016.

For example, a utility company with a single power generation facility in an area prone to natural disasters is probably far riskier despite having a higher interest coverage ratio than a more geographically diversified firm with a slightly lower metric.

In what would normally be an off day for city council members, they gathered for a special council meeting to discuss the situation surrounding Kane Beef's delinquent utility account which swelled to more than $ 2.3 million over the course of a year.

The cost of utilities in Colorado is lower than in more than half of the states.

Its insurance and utility businesses typically account for more than half of the company's net income.

Mayor Joe McComb recently learned that more than 1,300 local companies are behind on their utility bills.

While the S&P 500 was up over 1 % on the day, U.S. utility stocks lost over 3 % while consumer staples fell more than 1 %.

Some may argue this comparison is too simplistic and «apples to oranges» but the annual terawatt hour consumption figures persist none the less, and Bitcoin costs roughly 10x more energy than CERN Meanwhile, most, if not all of us will probably find it very difficult to demonstrate a cost / utility argument in support of Bitcoin having 10x more benefit than CERN.

For whatever reason, most investors aren't wired to think of common stocks like they do office buildings or high - quality furniture, which they understand has utility for more than one lifetime.

Currently, 2 ETFs track the S&P Utilities Select Sector Index with more than $ 7.37 B in ETP assets with an average expense ratio of 0.61 %.

Utility workers from more than 30 states and Canada made their way to Florida ahead of Irma's landfall to assist with restoration.

There's more to utilities than the price of power; Reaves Asset Management uses that fact to capture alpha in the space.

Indeed, the technology sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump presidency: The S&P information technology group has risen more than 13 percent this year, more than banks, utilities, health firms, energy companies or consumer brands.

The entire 7 MW / 34 MWh system will provide the public utility with costs savings of more than $ 500,000 per year, and help stabilize demand on the stressed Southern California electrical grid.

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.