Sentences with phrase «powering its operations as»

Apple has created a new subsidiary called Apple Energy LLC, with plans to use renewable energy to help power its operations as well as sell the excess electricity generated from its solar farms to wholesale markets in the U.S.

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ZURICH, Nov 6 (Reuters)- ABB is reorganising part of its global power grids operations as the Swiss engineering group responds to the division's sluggish profitability and falling orders.

Recent cyber attacks that disrupted business operations and hospital services in many countries across the world have, however, increased fears that assailants motivated by money or ideology could cripple even more strategic targets such as power and water networks.

The transition to what appears to be open - ended stability operations in Syria could leave those U.S. - backed forces vulnerable to shifting alliances, power struggles and miscommunications as Assad's allies and enemies vie for greater control of post-war Syria.

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

Oil sands players, as well as U.S. producers in North Dakota, have been clamouring for pipeline approvals, claiming that all of the political foot dragging around pipeline projects weakened pricing power and critically hampered their operations.

The Fitzsimmons Creek Renewable Energy Project, a run - of - river power generating facility between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, came online in 2009 and now returns as much power to the grid as is consumed annually by Whistler Blackcomb's operations.

They join as adjustments are made to governance and operations of the new watchdog to spread out power and decision making more broadly among the provinces and assuage concerns it would be too Toronto - centric.

Because it owns extensive insurance operations that experience fluctuating profits, it is not as easy to determine Berkshire's normal earnings power as it would be, for say, Kraft's food packaging divisions which have pretty predictable demand for macaroni and cheese, Oscar Meyer hot dogs, and Maxwell House coffee, but still — $ 12 billion is a good estimate of what «normal» profits look like each year for Berkshire shareholders.

«It grows earnings not so much by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years) using high - powered, high P / E multiple GE stock or cheap near Treasury Bill yielding commercial paper.

High - powered lasers were also popular products, with revenue from the segment jumping 60 % as manufacturers sought the equipment for cutting and welding operations.

Gas is actually very important for Neo platform as this token serves the purpose of paying for running smart contract operations, which means that Gas is actually powering up smart contracts, which is one of the most important features that Neo has as a platform.

As Josiah Fisk presents him in the Autumn 1994 Hudson Review, Cage was an influential figure in «the new simplicity» in music, a movement that tends to leave us «blissfully ignorant of the dialogues, the ambiguities, the deeply questioning and even subversive powers that actually govern the operation of music.»

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

And since the news operations are themselves part of vast conglomerations of business power, the management of these corporations, through their selection of staff, their promulgation of policy «guidelines», and their intricate and subtle system of rewards and punishments, oversee and maintain a news environment that fosters not so much facts and understanding, as profit and the prevailing social order.

Any attempt to co-opt some portion of God's role as the source of creativity - esse will presuppose the prior operation of God's power to create ex nihilo, and thus have no effect on that power.

The added size and scale of MSU Culinary Services» operations also greatly enhances its purchasing power, as it purchased roughly 60 percent of its goods directly from manufacturers.

On Monday, they fired general manager Dave Stewart, manager Chip Hale, and vice president of baseball operations De Jon Watson, and removed Tony La Russa from power in baseball ops while letting him keep his role as chief baseball officer.

Unfortunately, these hopes were quickly dashed as the powers that be teamed up to throw a wrench into the operation.

And while those sales were supposed to help the operations of the club, many fans took the transfer policy as attempting to cash in on players, rather than hanging on to a young core that might power the team back into the Premier League.

As part of measures to address the on - going power supply challenges, Finance Minister Seth Terkper told Parliament last week when he presented the 2016 budget that government was working on the 220MW Kpone Thermal Power Project which he said is on course and expected to be commissioned for operations before the end of the power supply challenges, Finance Minister Seth Terkper told Parliament last week when he presented the 2016 budget that government was working on the 220MW Kpone Thermal Power Project which he said is on course and expected to be commissioned for operations before the end of the Power Project which he said is on course and expected to be commissioned for operations before the end of the year.

Taegan Goddard links to an Obama memo laying out the campaign's case for the power of his grassroots field operation to turn out the vote: «This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get - out - the - vote (GOTV) staging locations in the battleground states that...

From 2011 to 2015, DEAN SKELOS served as Majority Leader and Co-Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, a position that gave him significant power over the operation of New York State government.

Mr Okyere said GRIDCo had forecast peak demand to be at 2,523 MW for 2018 based on factors such as VALCO's operation of two potlines, the power supply to Burkina Faso and network expansion and rural electrification programmes for Electricity Company of Ghana and the Northern Electricity Company.

There's a long list of steps being taken: a new offence of possessing «paedophilic manuals»; a strengthening of sentencing guidelines for computer hacking operations; new powers to seize and destroy chemical substances suspected of being used as cutting agents for illegal drugs.

Mr. Tordue Gber (Tiv Swem) acts as spiritual counselor that provides Gana with «diabolical» powers and the shrine serves as hideout for wanted armed militia, meeting and planning point for operations and logistics base for the criminal armed militias that operate in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States.

Deputy General Secretary in charge of operations of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho claims after helping the NPP to win power, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia's role as the Vice President has been stifled and only limited to an errand boy for the Finance Minister.

One of Mr Gove's ideas for power that he also shared with Boris and his aides was to merge No10 and No11 to fuse the Prime Minister and Chancellor's operations together as one.

Also, during Mangano's two terms, strains developed between the town's GOP leadership and Mondello — as Oyster Bay Republicans, headed by Rob Walker, Mangano's chief deputy, aggressively developed their own political power base and fundraising operation.

The resignation of Mike Hervey should, in no way, be seen as the silver bullet that will fix the deep problems within the Long Island Power Authority's (LIPA) operations, and the gaping lack of leadership within its ranks.

«I think when you look at the structure now, and you look at the power that you can amass and how you really can insulate yourself as a result of that, I think it not only does a disservice to the operation of government but also to being open to new ideas and new policies,» Griffo said.

Space weather events such as geomagnetic storms can disturb Earth's magnetic field, interfering with electric power grids, radio communication, GPS systems, satellite operations, oil and gas drilling and air travel.

Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of alternative fuels and technologies.

Many other battery - free technologies that rely on ambient energy sources, such as temperature sensors or an accelerometer, conserve power with intermittent operations.

Such «optically pumped» magnetometers, in addition to high sensitivity, offer advantages such as room - temperature operation, small size, low power and cost, and reduced interference.

As supercritical technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.

Meanwhile, the country is preparing to resume operation at as many as 48 nuclear reactors over the coming years, but that process is slow and expensive, and there are no guarantees that Japan will be able to meet its future energy demand with nuclear power alone.

At issue are draft rules that require annual greenhouse gas reporting from an estimated 13,000 sites, including refineries, other oil and gas sites, power plants, and many other types of industrial operations, such as cement and metals production.

These two features are linked together, as an optical circuit's total absorbed power depends on the energy required by a single «switch» operation multiplied by the number of operations per second.

-- The Corporation shall operate as a division or affiliate of the Electric Power Research Institute (referred to in this section as «EPRI») and be managed by a Board of not more than 15 voting members responsible for its operations, including compliance with this section.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

The power generation facility has commenced business operations as of March 1.

In view of the limited amount of material needed for such a power reactor, and of the spectacular character and difficulty of the steps necessary to divert it, we would regard such power reactors as safe provided there were a minimum of reasonable supervision of their design, construction, and operation.

Waste material originating from historical operations and generated as CNL revitalizes Chalk River Laboratories and closes the Whiteshell Laboratories and Nuclear Power Demonstration sites will be emplaced in the facility.

Though we now know the outcome of the operation, the frissons come thick and fast as one chopper loses power and sinks to the ground while the other, supposedly with a «silencer» attached to the rotary blades but making plenty of noise, lands in front of the compound.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

Find the reciprocal of a number given as a fraction or decimal · Use index laws to calculate with squares and cubes · Use index laws to simplify and calculate the value of numerical expressions involving multiplication and division of integer powers, and powers of a power · Find the prime factor decomposition of positive integers and write in index form · Know the effects that a change of place value has on a calculation · Multiply and divide by any number between 0 and 1 · Multiply and divide decimal numbers by whole numbers and decimal numbers (up to 2 d.p.), eg 266.22 ¸ 0.34 · Use brackets and the hierarchy of operations (BIDMAS) · Use index notation for integer powers of 10 · Add, subtract any numbers including negative decimals · Check answers by inverse calculation · Find the common factors and common multiples of two small numbers

In making determinations about where to move existing operations or open new ones, business planners have traditionally concentrated on a few key economic factors, such as taxes, wage rates, and the power of local labor unions.

Mountain Brook City Schools currently is working with its local power company testing electric vehicles as a way to reduce costs while improving operations and helping the environment.

When you refer to the McKinley Elementary School petition in Compton, Calif., as «parent - powered, child - focused,» you ignore the fact that the petition was circulated not by parents in the school but by paid organizers pushing a for - profit charter school operation.