Sentences with phrase «power utilities would»

If Hansen and others hadn't invented AGW, the power utilities would have.

The findings suggest that without nuclear power utilities would turn to fossil fuels over renewable sources.

The BJ42 model was never sold to the general public in the U.S. Like the similar, better - known FJ40, this diesel - powered utility has plenty of cross-generational appeal.

In the UK both the politicians and power utilities have bumped into resistance towards higher electricity prices and they all know that it is green levies causing them but they are pretending to the consumers that that is not the case.

South Africa's power utility would do well to consider swapping out expensive new coal - powered capability for renewables.

Morocco's state - run power utility has just invited companies to bid on five wind farm projects with a total power generation capacity of 850 megawatts, as part of its plan to build 2,000 MW of wind power by 2020.

Vattenfall, Sweden's state - owned power utility has embraced the technology and has opened a pilot plant in Germany, where it runs a number of coal - fired plants - 64 percent of its generation is from brown coal in Germany, just one percent from renewables (and it has zero coal - fired plants in Sweden).

Not exact matches

U.S. utility giant Southern Co. didn't get the extension it had been looking for that would've qualified its long - delayed nuclear power project in Georgia for a production tax credit.

The state government has appointed Stephen Edwell chair of Horizon Power, and added Kylie Chamberlain to the utility's board.

Hamilton - based GeoDigital International, whose main business is developing 3 - D maps power utilities use to inspect transmission lines, recently landed a multi-year contract with an unnamed carmaker to map America's roadways using the same technology.

The ST edition of the Edge sport utility vehicle that Ford introduces Thursday in advance of the Detroit auto show is powered by a 335 - horsepower twin - turbo V - 6 engine, engineered on the track and styled to look «sinister,» said its designer Steve Gilmore.

«The hope is to help power utilities find out where their networks have weaknesses, how their systems might respond, and how they could alleviate problems,» Love said.

While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure.

SunPower said in June it would it would offer solar systems with battery storage to 300 New York homeowners in what would serve as a «virtual power plant» to utility Con Edison.

It would be the first IPO of a state - owned firm in Romania since the sale of power utility Electrica in 2014.

And last year, hedge fund manager David Tepper sought to block SunEdison and TerraForm Power Inc.'s acquisition of installer Vivint Solar Inc. on his assessment that rooftop assets were inferior to solar power plants, which have long - term contracts with utiliPower Inc.'s acquisition of installer Vivint Solar Inc. on his assessment that rooftop assets were inferior to solar power plants, which have long - term contracts with utilipower plants, which have long - term contracts with utilities.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

The goal of deregulation was to promote competition in the utility sector and drive down power costs, but sea changes in the space have created challenges for merchant generators.

The protest concerned the fact that several Emera and Nova Scotia Power executives had received substantial raises, despite the fact that Nova Scotia Power recently went before the province's Utility and Review Board to get approval for an electricity price hike.

California for years has required utilities to purchase excess rooftop solar power, paying homeowners in credits that lower their utility bills.

The company has a pilot project offering small backup storage batteries made by Tesla that, like emergency backup generators, allow homeowners to run some appliances and lights if the power goes out (they could also help utilities manage loads).

Because the local utility, NV Energy, generates a good portion of its sales from casinos, the state's regulators said casinos would have to pay tens of millions of dollars to detach from the utility and generate all of their own power.

It has been working with vendors and representatives of the utilities industry in an ambitious quest to begin populating the world with fusion power plants by the 2030s.

According to a Georgia Power statement, the utility believes a piece of equipment in an underground electrical facility may have failed, causing the fire.

«The wireless industry has done everything it can to persuade federal regulators and state regulators not to require that backup power be put in place,» said Regina Costa, chair of the telecommunications committee of the National Association of State Utility Advocates, which speaks for consumer representatives.

Musk's Tesla, which has been packaging batteries to power its cars for years, more recently started selling those batteries to utilities for the power grid and for companies and homeowners to use for storage.

Berkshire has pledged to reduce coal - power generation by 76 % in its Nevada utility company.

What would become Brascan, and then Brookfield Asset Management, first invested in a tramway system in Sao Paulo in 1899 before it became a major player in power generation and utilities in the South American country.

Hydro - Quebec, meanwhile, would combine its extensive hydro - based generation assets with NB Power's thermal - based ones, creating a more efficient and synergistic utility with increased capacity to sell to the lucrative markets in the northeastern United States.

The Quebec utility would in turn provide lower power rates to New Brunswick's industries and guarantee a five - year rate freeze to the province's residential and commercial customers.

Many trace the tipping point for utility - scale solar to a 2014 announcement by Austin Energy that it would buy power from a new 150 megawatt solar plant — enough to light and cool 30,000 homes - for 5 cents a kilowatt hour.

But that wait appears to be almost over, with formal approval expected imminently, in a sign the Japanese power utilities may have gotten over their concerns about the Swiss miner's market power.

Consumers would likely enjoy lower power bills if provincial governments welcomed more private investment in electricity utilities, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

A Miami - Dade Circuit Court judge has ruled that Coral Gables can't force FPL to upgrade infrastructure and trim trees around power lines, but that the city can sue the utility for breach of contract over its response to power outages following Hurricane Irma.

As a leading manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and provider of solar energy solutions, Canadian Solar also has a geographically diversified pipeline of utility - scale power projects in various stages of development.

Tesla Motors has unveiled Tesla Energy, a collection of rechargeable batteries that can power up homes, businesses and utilities.

For the first time, home and business owners have a viable and cost - competitive alternative to fossil - fuel power utilities.

Founded in 2006, Recurrent Energy has developed, originated and constructed 2 GWp of projects ranging from commercial rooftop installations to utility - scale ground - mounted power plants.

As a leading manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and a provider of solar energy solutions, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified pipeline of utility - scale power projects in various stages of development.

A consortium of New Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital, and EverStream Energy Capital Management today announced that it has closed an investment of $ 67.3 million to fund the development and construction of utility ‐ scale solar photovoltaic power projects in Central... Continue reading →

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.

Renewable Properties has a rapidly growing pipeline of utility solar projects located throughout the U.S. and plans to bring approximately 75 MW DC of solar capacity online in 2018, which is enough electricity to power nearly 12,657 homes a year.

Bill Gilliland, an M&A lawyer at Dentons LLP in Toronto, says energy infrastructure, including pipelines, utilities and power generation, has «been a busy sector.»

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Building and shipping thousands of utility poles and power lines to the island, then setting them up on mountainous terrain has become a headache for utility crews.

«We've never had that many outages, and I don't think any utility in the country ever has,» Eric Silagy, the chief executive of Florida Power & Light, told reporters Monday.

And there are still 61,000 utility customers who've been completely without power since September, the US Department of Energy reported earlier this month.

Puerto Ricans are now desperately trying to connect the main power arteries to individual homes, and some have resorted to their own makeshift repairs, mounting their own utility poles and stringing up low - voltage transmission lines.

Gould said that nearly 5.1 million of his company's customers lost power, but that the utility has already managed to restore electricity to 60 percent of them.

This is from their most recent dividend announcement: «OAKVILLE, ON, March 10, 2016 / CNW / — Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. («APUC» or the «Company»)(TSX: AQN, AQN.PR.A, AQN.PR.D) announced today that the Board of Directors of APUC (the «Board») has declared a dividend of U.S. $ 0.09625 per common share, payable on April 15, 2016 to the shareholders of record on March 31, 2016 for the period from January 1, 2016 to March 31, 2016.