Sentences with phrase «say the power sector»

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Puerto Rico «s governor said on Monday he intends to sell off its troubled power utility to the private sector, saying the process could take roughly 18 months to complete.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

«The stock prices are still not reflecting the earnings power that's likely to show up here in this quarter and for the year as a whole,» said Leo Grohowski, chief investment officer at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which has been overweight the energy sector.

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.»

Though governments are vocal smart city champions, some industry pundits say connected cities need the data power of private sectors like banking to evolve.

** U.S. gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy said it would buy rival Vectren Corp for about $ 6 billion, the latest in a string of mergers in the sector as power consumption in many parts of the country flattens.

He said: «Even though the role of DNA in forensics, law enforcement and the justice sector is well known globally, a high - powered DNA analysis centre is not available in Nigeria.

In the power and energy sector, 35 communities, he said, had been connected to the national grid, with streetlights installed at Bugri and Basyonde, 1,500 LPG cylinders and 200 solar lamps distributed among households as well as 17 corn - mill machines shared among all the electoral areas in the constituency.

Speaking at the first bidder's conference on ECG - PSP concession in Accra, Mr. Agyarko said even though over the years there have been investments in the power sector, there is the need to ensure the concessionaire is operating well to ensure reliable power supply in the country.

He said there is a «vicious cycle» pervasive in Ghana and some other African countries where the governments in power target and destroy businesses as well as wealth created by private businesspeople during the tenure of the immediate - past predecessor - regimes, a situation, Archbishop Duncan - Williams believes, is causing Ghana not to be able to create ample job opportunities in the private sector to absorb unemployed youth.

However, he said the government was committed to guaranteeing stable power supply, pointing out that the power sector reform of the federal government would address that problem.

He said the government's efforts at addressing the liquidity problems in the power sector would go a long way to release funds for GRIDCo to execute its critical projects that would make the national transmission system robust and improve reliability of power supply.

The NPP, in a bleak analysis of the power sector, has said Ghana could experience up to 700 megawatts of power shortage early in 2017 resulting from factors ranging from a drop in gas supply to a reduction in power imported.

Touting his government's work in the energy sector, he said, «it has taken a lot of hard work and effort fast tracking the deployment of emergency plants and speeding up the completion of ongoing plants ensuring that we added more than 800 megawatts of power over an 18 - month period.»

The NPP, in a bleak analysis of the power sector on Wednesday said Ghana could experience up to 700 megawatts of power shortage early in 2017 resulting from factors ranging from the a drop in gas supply to a reduction in power imported.

Seth Tekper cited major economic policy decisions including specific investments in the power sector which he said prevented the country from sliding into a recession.

«Our affiliates in the private sector, public sector and building trades were united in recognizing the important role existing nuclear facilities, like the James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant have in our communities and in our future,» said AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento.

It said it was committed to assisting Nigeria to achieve the objectives of its reforms in the power sector in accordance with the priorities already approved by the authorities.

AfDB also said that the bank had also released one of its staff to support the government in its power sector reforms programme for 12 months on September 19, 2016

Commenting on gas sector, he said gas supply to power plants and industries in the Country had significantly increased.

The Ministry of Power would leverage additional financing to achieve flagship investments in the renewable energy sector under the SREP - IP Programme,» he said.

The sector, Mr Terkper said, therefore, deserved maximum attention and focus by all to ensure that the country had enough generation, transmission and distribution for an uninterrupted power supply.

Al DelBello, who spent 20 years in elected office before becoming a private sector power broker, should have his name added to the Westchester County Airport, one county lawmaker says.

The Deputy Minister of Power, Mr John Abdulai Jinapor, said the real challenge facing the power sector currently was the inadequate supply of Gas and diesel to run some of the power plPower, Mr John Abdulai Jinapor, said the real challenge facing the power sector currently was the inadequate supply of Gas and diesel to run some of the power plpower sector currently was the inadequate supply of Gas and diesel to run some of the power plpower plants.

Along with the power to resolve, say, the UFT's grievances — perhaps by crushing the charter - school movement — the WFP now has juice to impose indirect tax increases and other commerce - depressing restrictions on the private sector.

Sen. Carl Marcellino (R - Syosset) said the delegation's power comes from its ability to vote as one on regional economic and educational issues - all the senators interviewed this week said their priorities would be economic development, private sector job growth and a property tax cap.

Although Miliband told Andrew Marr that «if Labour was in power now, we wouldn't be making those changes, we wouldn't be cutting as far and as fast as the government», he said it was right to support the Government's pay freeze for public sector workers:

But STRANEK in a statement said it «believes that the concession of ECG will create jobs, ensure that real tariff levels reduce over time for the power sector, introduce efficiencies in the operation of utilities, among others» adding: «Thus, the concession is a good step in the right direction.»

In his remarks, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, represented by the Minister of State, Suleiman Zarma, said that the project would improve the lives of the people, assuring that the government would continue to engage the private sector for the benefit of Nigerians.

«It wasn't an impressive delivery because we were not given detailed briefing about the supplementary budget; he didn't talk about fiscal policy except to mention putting less pressure on the interest rate and also said Ghana Stock Exchange is to support the energy sector; but being the acting Power Minister, he didn't stress on the energy crisis and that's a very big problem.

He said there was the need revitalise the education, agriculture and power sectors in order to give the nation's moribund industries a new lease of life using the recovered funds.

I have said before that I thought it was right for short - term commitments to be in line with the coalition spending plans, as changes inevitably produce disturbance to business cycles, but that doesn't prevent Labour from saying that long - term they would seek to ameliorate the concerns of public sector - workers, e.g. future pay increases would be above inflation to restore the earning power that was lost through the recession.

Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has said the federal government plans to introduce a 3 - year subsidy programme for the power sector beginning from January nePower, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has said the federal government plans to introduce a 3 - year subsidy programme for the power sector beginning from January nepower sector beginning from January next...

He said that the problem of the power sector had nothing to do with lack of resources as the government had committed N11tn to the power sector reforms without achieving the objective of providing stable power supply in the country.

Dr Bawumia on Tuesday said government has taken some major decisions in the energy sector where power producers in Ghana can not charge more than 10 cents per kilowatt hour arguing that Ghana is paying the highest in the sub-region for power per kilowatt hour.

«We have the cleanest power sector we know how to make, and there's still a long way to go,» said Wara, the Stanford researcher.

You run out of power - sector emission reductions before you get even moderate decarbonization,» said Michael Wara, a senior researcher at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment.

Slower going, experts say, is breaking the vicious cycle of antiquated transmission networks, theft, corruption and poor maintenance crippling Haiti's power sector.

Longview Power CEO Jeff Keffer said in an interview that feedback the environment agency has received from power companies likely reflects broad agreement from the power sector that the state can't meet EPA's targets without legislative chaPower CEO Jeff Keffer said in an interview that feedback the environment agency has received from power companies likely reflects broad agreement from the power sector that the state can't meet EPA's targets without legislative chapower companies likely reflects broad agreement from the power sector that the state can't meet EPA's targets without legislative chapower sector that the state can't meet EPA's targets without legislative changes.

«Our work shows that the U.S. power sector could meet the Paris Agreement goals even without the Clean Power Plan, and that the path to compliance can be a collection of politically feasible, minimally invasive actions — if we plan ahead and start now,» said David Rode, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Social and Decision Sciepower sector could meet the Paris Agreement goals even without the Clean Power Plan, and that the path to compliance can be a collection of politically feasible, minimally invasive actions — if we plan ahead and start now,» said David Rode, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Social and Decision SciePower Plan, and that the path to compliance can be a collection of politically feasible, minimally invasive actions — if we plan ahead and start now,» said David Rode, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Social and Decision Sciences.

Though some countries and companies have invested in pollution control technologies over the decade, CARMA Project Manager Kevin Ummel said the global power sector trends are disheartening.

«The decrease was most notable in the residential and electric power sectors,» EIA said.

«The administration has already set reasonable limits on trucks and power plants, but when it comes to airplanes, EPA has not put any limits on that sector,» said Deborah Lapidus, director of the Flying Clean Alliance.

«Showing an intent to de-carbonise your power sector is tremendously important when sitting across the table from China,» says Morgan.

«What these vehicles are about is shifting portions of the American mobile sector onto a more efficient and domestically produced power source,» he said.

Joanna Lewis, an associate professor of science, technology and international affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said China's wind power sector has also been aided by a steep decline in manufacturing and installation costs, as well as the establishment of a robust domestic supply chain, led by the nation's industry leader, Goldwind.

«Only two out of the 54 are operating, and these utilities are trying to work their way through the mechanics to get permission to restart,» said Neil Wilmshurst, vice president for the nuclear sector at the U.S. industry's Electric Power Research Institute.

Not only does this plan work on all sources of carbon emissions rather than just the power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman said.

McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.

Senior Fellow Kyle Aarons said at least 10 percent could come from state progress on cutting carbon emissions from the power sector, assuming the draft rule moves ahead as proposed.