Sentences with phrase «utility firms»

Working for utility firms, Opower sends reports to people detailing how their usage compares with similar homes in their area.

honor of Earth Day, a water utility firm offers teachers a free online toolkit to facilitate water education.

Celebrate Earth Day With Lessons on WaterIn honor of Earth Day, a water utility firm offers teachers a free online toolkit to facilitate water education.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

OPB News said power utility firms in Washington state and neighboring mid-Columbia are now concerned that the growth in electricity demand could ultimately pose a risk to their systems or bring added costs to general consumers.

By contrast, the French utility firm EDF sank by over 7.9 percent to hit the bottom of the index after the French government made 92 million euros in a share sale.

At just 35 years old Burrows entered the C - suite of one of Canada's largest utility firms.

Celebrated by green power advocates and blasted by utility firms, the move has since resulted in a shift in how Germany produces its power, and a need for those utilities to innovate or risk facing a changing marketplace.

British utility firm E.On rose some 3 percent in trade.

Expected to raise some $ 16 billion, it's the largest Internet IPO in the U.S. and the third largest IPO ever — behindVisain 2008 and Italian utility firm Enel SPA in 1999.

The fund provides 2x leveraged inverse exposure to the Dow Jones U.S. Utilities Index — a market - cap - weighted index of about 64 utilities firms based in the US as classified by S&P Dow Jones.

However according to Street Works UK — which represents utilities firms and their contractors — there is no clear evidence showing the congestion - busting powers of lane rental.

... The Chancellor said HM Revenue and Customs has prevented utility firms from claiming tax breaks on payments made by their customers rather than themselves.»

According to the paper, the bloc is concerned that Britain under Labour would provide generous subsidies to manufacturers that could give them an unfair advantage in trade with the EU, while there are fears that nationalised utilities firms could out - compete foreign rivals.

In June, German meteorologists, engineers and utility firms began to test whether big data and machine learning can make these power sources more grid - friendly.

Such requests, called re-dispatches, cost German customers more than $ 500 million (US$ 553 million) a year because grid operators must compensate utility firms for adjustments to their inputs.

Profits of Canadian Finance and Utilities firms tend to be more stable than profits of Resources or Manufacturing companies.

It is owned by Canadian utility firm SaskPower and will capture 90 per cent of the emissions from a 110 megawatt coal unit that has been retrofitted with CCS technology.

Sponsors of the event, the site details, include ENEDIS, a French public utility firm, and MAIF, a major mutual insurance firm in France.

Yet like the other utility firms in Germany, RWE is facing a future wherein its primary modes of energy production face regulatory challenges.

Yet on Friday, Canadian newspaper Les Affaires reported that operators tied to utility firm Hydro - Quebec are turning down new clients, in part due to the demands placed on the hydroelectric dam by existing operations.

«France's image will change, we have a young president, I'd say a connected president, a modern president, pro-business, pro-Europe,» Gerard Mestrallet, chairman of the utility firm Engie, told CNBC on Tuesday at the sidelines of the conference.

A Post review of the state's database of $ 13 billion in unclaimed funds shows that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and entertainers Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Matthew Broderick, Jay Z and Beyoncé are owed money from a variety of sources, including insurance companies, utility firms, the film industry and the government.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

Reductions in the weight of solar technology have encouraged stolid aerospace and utility firms to experiment in earnest (see «Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit «-RRB-; perhaps the space flight moonshots can help them out.

The first phase of the EU ETS — from 2005 to 2007 — drew criticism for not achieving substantial cuts in emissions, excessive allowance price volatility and for resulting in windfall profits for some utility firms that received carbon allowances for free but were able to pass through their full cost to consumers in the form of higher electricity prices.

It's a competitive world, and much in the same way that consumers go shopping for their utility firm, they'll shop around for a solicitor.

Top employers include Virginia Commonwealth University Healthy System, Capital One Financial Corp., HCA Health System and the utility firm Dominion Resources.

Most economists were (and probably still are) of the mind that the public were best served by a few large utility firms (oligopolies I think is the term) until the never ending greed of us capitalists demanded free markets to save the citizenry from the inefficient utility firms.