Sentences with phrase «utility energy future»

Bankrupt Texas utility Energy Future Holdings will drop a deal to sell Oncor to Berkshire Hathaway.

Texas utility Energy Future Holdings will abandon a deal to sell power transmission company Oncor to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Not exact matches

Energy Future's board favored Sempra's bid after it also offered assurances it could get its acquisition of Oncor approved by Public Utility Commission of Texas, as well as a U.S. bankruptcy judge, the sources said.

Energy Future's $ 300 million transaction fee wasn't revealed until five months after it was paid, when the utility released its annual report.

The owners of Energy Future, which also includes Goldman Sachs, can take some solace in that they were not alone in betting on the biggest utility company in Texas.

When Buffett purchased $ 2 billion of Energy Future Holding's debt as part of a leveraged buyout of Texas electric utility assets, he made a huge decision ``... without consulting [business partner] Charlie [Munger].

«The continued partnership between Tesla and Panasonic is an important step in creating fully integrated energy products for businesses, homeowners and utilities, and furthers Tesla's mission toward a sustainable energy future,» the Tesla team wrote.

That's why Labour needs to offer hope: a living wage, for instance; letting councils build Britain out of its housing crisis; an industrial strategy to create the renewable energy jobs of the future; turning the bailed - out banks into accountable public investment banks; tax justice; and public ownership of our key utilities.

The Center, located at the former Clearing Niagara Headquarters at 683 Northland Avenue, will co-locate two training facilities: an Advanced Manufacturing Training Center and a Utility of the Future & Clean Energy Training Center.

«It opens up that in the future the utility could dispatch these connected vehicles as a distributed energy source,» said Michael Liu, North America regional manager for energy storage with BYD America Corp..

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilities).

Commonwealth Edison, DTE Energy and MichCon are among the group of utility providers asking bankruptcy judge Arthur Gonzalez to force Chrysler into making $ 25 million in deposits to pay for past - due and future bills as it muddles through the bankruptcy process.Chrysler's attorneys last week had requ

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Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

Ideally the best option for the future of Hawaii would be the Grid Tied Reactive Smart Grid Inverter application, if there was thousands of systems installed that all were programmed to react to the needs of the grid then the utility would benefit from the grid support services in the form of voltage and frequency support using the battery inverter to inject or absorb grid energy based on pre-programmed parameters the inverter would monitor the grid state and react accordingly to what would best help support or heal the grid stability.

Other highlights include sessions on energy storage for corporates; distributed generation and the future of utilities; practical, scalable solar innovation; the rise of nanogrids; and the California energy storage mandate in action.

Even by keeping the door open for fossil CCS projects (if not mandating the technology outright), the EPA has provided an opportunity for utilities and project developers to build fossil energy with CCS projects, and hopefully pave the way for carbon removal CCS techniques such as bioenergy with CCS and direct air capture and storage in the future.

Senate File 2311 (formerly SSB 3093) would effectively eliminate all funding for utility energy efficiency programs and allow future funding for programs only if customers voluntarily paid into the energy efficiency fund.

(Midwest Energy News) • Company officials debate the role of distributed generation versus utility - scale solar projects to meet future energy Energy News) • Company officials debate the role of distributed generation versus utility - scale solar projects to meet future energy energy needs.

After announcing their engagement in February, the Smart Electric Power Alliance and SGIP completed their merger today, providing a one - stop shop for utilities and distributed energy providers to collaborate on a clean energy future.

In a preliminary clean energy future summary paper prepared by LADWP, the first «key» consideration explicitly raises the utility's concern with maintaining system reliability without flexible natural gas plants.

Home of the Delta blues and promising new requirements for utility - run energy efficiency programs, Mississippi went down to the crossroads and took a huge step forward toward a cleaner, more efficient energy future.

By taking a leadership role, he believes Cypress Creek will gain the real - world data and expertise needed to get more financiers and utilities on board with energy storage projects in future.

In Arizona, regulators voted for a nine - month pause on any new large gas - fired power plants and told the state's largest investor - owned utilities that their future plans relied too heavily on natural gas and should include more wind and solar, electricity storage, and energy efficiency.

However, Microsoft envisions a future where it and other customers bring their own assets to utilities, whether new renewables, energy storage or even cloud technologies that optimize customer usage patterns, to help create a lower - cost, more efficient and cleaner energy grid.

As yet more evidence of a revolution in our midst, last week the City Council of Glendale, California voted 4 - 1 to explore whether renewable energy plus storage could meet the city's future energy needs better than the municipal utility's proposed repair and upgrade of a nearby 80 year old gas plant.

Hawaii's energy future does not rest entirely on utility spending, Wallsgrove argued.

The Solar PEIS ROD did not eliminate the need for site - specific environmental reviews for future utility - scale solar energy development projects.

These outdated utility financial incentives inhibit the transition to a clean energy future, increase consumer costs, and hinder investment in new technologies.

If the state General Assembly and Governor Tom Wolf enact the bill, which enjoys support from utilities, vehicle manufacturers, electric vehicle (EV) charging service providers, business associations, renewable energy companies, faith - based organizations, and environmental organizations, Pennsylvania will pave the way for a bold, modern, and clean transportation future.

Customers who qualify may voluntarily participate in a utility - managed energy control program (if one should exist), that would control or adjust devices, (e.g., pumps or water heaters, air conditioners, thermostats, etc.) as part of a future Demand Response program.

After uniting leaders in the policy, business, construction, utility, low - income advocacy and environmental arenas to win a 30 % efficiency boost in America's model energy code, the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued proenergy code, the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued proEnergy Conservation Code (IECC), the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued proEnergy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued progress.

«Along with utility investments in renewable energy, customers are using their «Powerful Choices» to help drive a clean energy future,» she added.

«We believe distributed generation, and particularly rooftop solar, are important options for our customers and we want to continue working with stakeholders in the commission's distributed energy resources docket to put policies in place that will build a sustainable future for Hawaii,» Pai told Utility Dive.

A new survey of North American utility executives shows them wary of President Donald Trump's energy policies, but unmoved in their commitment to a cleaner energy future.

New York's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative is transforming how utility stakeholders view the power sector's future, but for the first time polling has revealed widespread support from consumers themselves.

Witnessed by the ambassador of France to the UAE, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at the World Future Energy Summit event taking place this week in Abu Dhabi between EDF's senior executive vice president of renewable energies Antoine Cahuzac and Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer, who is CEO and president of utility and government agency DEWA.

These regulations leave the state's energy future largely in the hands of investor - owned utilities (IOU).

Advocates of distributed solar energy in Virginia are watching nervously this summer as electric utilities and the solar industry negotiate the future of net metering, the policy that makes rooftop solar economically viable in a state with no other incentives.

Secure Futures and the university thought that even if what was really just a financing arrangement somehow fell afoul of Dominion's monopoly, surely they were covered by the exception in § 56 - 577 (A)(6) available to customers whose own utilities do not offer 100 % renewable energy.

This is one example of how natural gas utilities and the natural gas distribution system have an important role in Canada's innovative energy delivery system of the future.

Complementary to our utility resource planning capabilities, Synapse works with our clients to develop and analyze energy future scenarios for states, regions, and the nation as a whole.

Utilities can use data to increase savings from energy efficiency programs and identify opportunities for future system upgrades.

Some of the most important names in renewable energy and environmentalism are turning to the business community and electric utilities to help stave off climate change and transition to a clean energy future.

But cities can use the expiration of utility franchises as an opportunity to discuss their energy future.

But that percentage will climb as rooftop and utility scale installations grew rapidly due to the Future Energy Jobs Act taking effect in June, 2017.

The version of House Bill 760 that passed the House and is now in the Senate freezes North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) at 6 % by eliminating future planned increases to 10 % and 12.5 %, allows energy efficiency to meet 50 % of a utility's REPS requirement instead of 25 %, and decreases the residential cost cap from $ 34 to $ 12 perEnergy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) at 6 % by eliminating future planned increases to 10 % and 12.5 %, allows energy efficiency to meet 50 % of a utility's REPS requirement instead of 25 %, and decreases the residential cost cap from $ 34 to $ 12 perEnergy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) at 6 % by eliminating future planned increases to 10 % and 12.5 %, allows energy efficiency to meet 50 % of a utility's REPS requirement instead of 25 %, and decreases the residential cost cap from $ 34 to $ 12 perenergy efficiency to meet 50 % of a utility's REPS requirement instead of 25 %, and decreases the residential cost cap from $ 34 to $ 12 per year.

Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a new analysis, which shows that instead of aggressive over-reliance on natural gas by utilities as they phase out coal plants, a far better bet for achieving a clean energy future is to greatly expand the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Rebuilding With the Goal of Lower Energy Costs Cutting future home energy costs has been an important goal for those involved in rebuilding, who are well aware that in lower - income homes, as much as 50 percent of take - home pay can get burned up by utility Energy Costs Cutting future home energy costs has been an important goal for those involved in rebuilding, who are well aware that in lower - income homes, as much as 50 percent of take - home pay can get burned up by utility energy costs has been an important goal for those involved in rebuilding, who are well aware that in lower - income homes, as much as 50 percent of take - home pay can get burned up by utility bills.

It's time for those who regulate our utilities to demand a new energy forecast — one where our utilities can no longer cloud our region's clean energy future.