Sentences with phrase «utility executives»

The Solutions Center is developing a series of clean energy policy briefs to inform legislators, decision makers, analysts working for government agencies and utility executives on current good practices, lessons, and success stories.

A recent report from consulting firm Accenture found more than three quarters of utility executives in North America believe a cyberattack is likely in the next five years.

«He's the best utility executive in the United States.»

While the White House has moved to revise the EPA's Clean Power Plan and repeatedly calls into question mainstream climate science, a clear majority of electric utility executives would like to see the federal government take action to cut carbon, though they are split on the optimal policy.

Rogers and Joe Hale — his friend and fellow utility executive — decided to launch the Global Brightlight Foundation, with the backing of Duke and later supported by the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, a broader industry group chaired by Rogers.

Left out has been... well, everyone else, those of us who are not utility executives and do not have the money, wherewithal, or suitable rooftops to install solar ourselves.

Thanks to our market - based approach and analytical rigor, we have gained the trust of regulators and utility executives who need an organization like RMI to understand the opportunities and overcome the challenges inherent in such a massive transformation.

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.

The ballot initiative not only would have eliminated coal and doubled the RPS, it would have docked the salaries of uncooperative utility executives.

For many utility executives, clean energy has been an annoyance, a demonstration project to appease enviros or a concern for colleagues in liberal states.

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Solar thermal companies have found success in recruiting top utility executives such as Robert Fishman, who left an executive VP position at CalPine to take the helm at Ausra.

Nervous utility executives worried that buying allowances meant putting their confidence in a piece of paper printed by the government.

Boyden Gray's hiking partner John Henry became a broker of emissions allowances and spent 18 months struggling to get utility executives to make the first purchase.

Those are some of the things about 500 utility executives see in the future of their industry, according to a poll conducted by consulting and construction firm Black & Veatch.

Utility executives bullish on solar, electric cars.

Bullish on electric cars: Utility executives believe electric cars will eat up 7 % of the nation's power supply by 2025.

It also provides much higher levels of cybersecurity essentially for free — which addresses, as a by - product, one of the key concerns of utility executives when it comes to distributed energy resources.»

In another key nomination, President Bush has tapped Alphonso R. Jackson, a Texas utility executive, to be HUD deputy secretary.

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Derryberry says the company plans to finish the job in 2013, which is about the same time current long - term uranium purchase agreements will expire, according to an analysis released in 2007 by The Keystone Center in Colorado, which assembled a panel of utility executives, environmentalists and other experts to examine the future role of nuclear power, particularly the role it might play in reversing climate change.

Utility executives and state energy experts feared that these cleaner but less predictable energy sources would heighten the risk of blackouts, and to keep the power flowing, they were willing to test out - of - the - box ideas, including the trio's.

Utility executives and smart grid advocates agree that apart from the smart grid projects funded by $ 4 billion in federal stimulus grants, most current smart grid investment is going into improving the efficiency, reliability and profitability of power supply, rather than reaching consumers directly.

This is no small thing, another utility executive suggests: «A ton of carbon dioxide reduced someplace in the world is a ton of carbon dioxide that's not in the atmosphere.»

«Nobody can assure you that the electrons coming into your house are going to be green or any other color,» a utility executive told me.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials, Energy Department counterparts, utility executives and research leaders are scheduled to meet in February for a «tabletop» conference on the technical and regulatory issues that could confront a new wave of relicensing applications by reactor owners.

The report, «Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident,» is based on interviews with more than 300 officials, utility executives and TEPCO employees.

But some utility executives think the department has been too hesitant to use the authority.

«In order to begin getting policymakers, regulators and utility executives to take a good look at offshore wind, it'll require «standing up» a project so we can bring offshore wind from theory to reality,» Deepwater Wind CEO Jeffrey Grybowski said.

«The closer we get to midterm elections,» a utility executive said, «both sides of the Hill will feel a high degree of vulnerability on environmental issues, and some will retreat from the White House if they feel they need to.»

The failure of politicians and utility executives to back solar, Bahr said, defies more than logic.

Utility executives are keeping a close eye on both the risks and the potential opportunities.

What's worse, utility executives and energy investors treat it that way.

Whatever the legal landscape is, it can't change the fact that there's cheap natural gas and utility executives aren't dumb.

Utility executives may not be known for their spirit of conservation, but they do care about money.

When Salzman engaged some utility executives on a recent panel, he said, «The last time I checked, there was no Moore's Law for coal.»

There's also uncertainty about whether wind's tax incentives will be renewed when they expire at the end of 2012 — only about half the utility executives polled think they will be.