Sentences with phrase «technologies impacting the energy»

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For example, Ameren Accelerator prioritizes money and resources toward impact - driven startups in the energy technology realm rather than entrepreneurs with a strictly business focus.

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capitalenergy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capitalenergy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capitalEnergy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Portfolio projects will incorporate only commercially - proven technologies and will employ active measures to mitigate project risks through contracted sales of energy and products, secure resources, and strategies to minimize the impact of commodity volatility.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

MaRS Cleantech, a division of MaRS, works with Canadian high - impact ventures and is devoted to helping accelerate the development and commercialization of technology companies in five clusters — advanced materials and manufacturing, energy, water, agriculture and smart cities.

«This is grid - scale technology, meaning that it has the ability to store energy on a level that will significantly impact our electricity grid.

They have positive social impact and are predominantly from one of three key sectors: arts & entertainment, energy & environment, and technology.

Unreasonable Capital will invest in industries where impact and profitability are maximized — currently, there is tremendous opportunity in (i) scalable clean - energy solutions, (ii) technologies designed to promote financial inclusion and access, and (iii) innovative mobile solutions focused on agriculture, and (iv) companies that are disrupting consumer supply chains between emerging markets and developed markets.

Following the successful Gibfin Conference eCoinomic.net Team traveled to Marbella, Spain to participate at InterEcoForum.The theme of the conference was cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies and their impact on the energy sector and sustainable development.

In October 1977 the entire panel was assembled for an Energy Ethics Consultation, at which an effort was made to assess technologies and policies for energy use and production in terms of their consistency with Christian ethical concern for the social iEnergy Ethics Consultation, at which an effort was made to assess technologies and policies for energy use and production in terms of their consistency with Christian ethical concern for the social ienergy use and production in terms of their consistency with Christian ethical concern for the social impact.

The production process has been carefully designed to ensure the environmental impact of every sheet of paper is dramatically reduced by using state - of - the - art recycling technologies and sustainable energy procurement.»

The technologies — which can repay the cost of their installation in as little as two years — will be explained by Mr Bambridge, who has decades of experience in assisting organisations manage energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts of climate change.

«The International Rice Research Institute and other research institutions have developed a wide range of sustainable technologies that will help reduce use of water, chemicals and energy in rice, and protect the crop from pests, disease and the impacts of climate change.

Irish agri - tech business BHSL has agreed $ 13 million in sales of its pioneering manure - to - energy technology which is aimed at transforming the environmental impact of the global poultry industry.

Irish agri - tech business BHSL has agreed a $ 3 million pilot project with the State of Maryland to trial its pioneering manure - to - energy technology which is aimed at transforming the environmental impact of the global poultry industry.

Some of their safety features include Safe Cell Technology, Integrated Steel Bars and Energy Absorbing Versa - Tether and with the Marathon G4 Britax USA have also incorporated Side Impact Protection.

In terms of safety, it also boasts safety features that exceed i - size standards, including energy absorbing materials and state of the art side impact technology.

As well as Side Impact Protection technology and an energy absorbing shell, it features a pioneering «ER - Tech» System which slides the headrest down in the event of a head on collision, to reduce the force impacted on the head and neck.

Built with a unique shock absorbent technology the Clef Filo allows for an energy transfer upon impact insuring that your precious cargo will be safe.

Rip - stitch tether, HUGS pads, and impact absorbing technology in base all work together to absorb energy in a crash.

The Pinnacle 90 also features energy - managing Side Impact Cushion Technology, which diverts crash forces away from a child and provides extra protection for the adjacent passenger.

The Britax Advocate is one of the best brands of the Britax manufacturers, which features side impact cushion technology and other safety features such as SafeCell technology, SafeCell crash technology, integrated steel bar, and an energy absorbing Versa - Tether.

It comes loaded with the Britax safety standards s like the energy absorbing Versa - Tether, SafeCell technology, true side impact protection, and steel bar.

The shift will not impact GE's $ 500 million collaboration with SUNY Polytechnic Institute on silicon carbide power electronic chips, which GE says is «a core breakout technology» and a «key focal point» of GE to bring cutting edge energy devices to market.

When you consider that, on average, low - income households spend nearly 14 % of their total annual income on energy compared to the average household, which spends only 3.5 %, the impact of technology we are celebrating today is very clear.»

«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.»

«Solar is already having a material impact on energy markets,» said Jason Channell, clean technology analyst at Citigroup.

It will also depend on the success of competing emission - free technologies — solar, wind, biomass, and fuel cell energy, among others — that promise less environmental impact.

PETROSS is supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which funds initial research for high - impact energy technologies to show proof of concept before private - sector invesEnergy (ARPA - E), which funds initial research for high - impact energy technologies to show proof of concept before private - sector invesenergy technologies to show proof of concept before private - sector investment.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT AEnergy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Aenergy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Aenergy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

The report also provides a closer look at the environmental impact of building roads and bringing in construction equipment to develop hydro power in Africa and South America; the land - use advantages of solar technology; and the costs of large - scale energy storage.

Advanced technologies offer an opportunity to meet the world's future energy needs while minimizing the environmental impact.

Finding the right mix of green energy technologies for generating electricity will be crucial in reducing the global impact of pollution for the next generation, according to a United Nations report co-written by a Yale professor.

Cantwell said that the science underway at DOE will be critical to understanding the impacts of the rising greenhouse - gas levels in the atmosphere — from Arctic sea - ice melt to ocean acidification — and maintaining US leadership in clean - energy technologies.

CSTSP has explored nuclear energy technologies with a view to considering their impact on nuclear nonproliferation objectives.

The calculation leaves out major costs, such as expanding and strengthening the power grid to handle far more complex flows of electricity from millions of solar installations, and creating breakthroughs in energy storage technology to lengthen solar power's impact beyond the daylight hours and to deal with sudden drops in output when clouds arrive.

That attitude bodes ill for the likely impact of COMPETES, which puts Congress on record in support of steady increases in the budgets of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the basic science programs at the Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The Energy Department's Offices of Science and its applied technology programs, the National Institutes of Health, the Agriculture Department's research and development programs, the National Science Foundation and NASA are among research agencies impacted.

A separate team from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the University of California, Santa Cruz, simulated the effect of impacts made at different energies, speeds and angles on the Martian crust.

-- Energy technologies that exist or are under development could greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental vEnergy technologies that exist or are under development could greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental venergy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental venergy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental venergy supply on climate and other environmental values.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate change.

The National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, the PRESTO program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency and the ImPACT program of the Government of Japan's Council for Science, Technology and Innovation supported the research.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology for computationally and / or data intensive, large - scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

The goal of the report is to inform policymakers about technology options for transforming energy production, distribution, and use to increase sustainability, support long - term economic prosperity, promote energy security, and reduce adverse environmental impacts.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

Recently I was invited to give a talk at the UNAI - START (United Nations Academic Impact — Science and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation) conference, on the role of nanotechnology in developing new solutions for energy, water, and health care — problems reaching crisis proportion in our world and requiring urgent action across all levels.

UA HOVR ™ technology provides «zero gravity feel» to maintain energy return that helps eliminate impact step after step