Not exact matches
Yesterday's (October 8) selloff was broad - based and ugly, with just
about every
industry sector getting hit hard (
utilities were an exception).
Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples
industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while
about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy,
utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.
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Excited
about the 2009 SEMA Show's new Powersports &
Utilities Vehicles section, key executives, dealers and retailers from the powersports
industry will be on the SEMA Show floor seeking cross-selling opportunities.
In one study comparing sector - specific funds, he found that the 10 % of funds that concentrated on one
industry — say, technology or
utilities — outperformed the 10 % of funds with the lowest exposure to any one sector by
about 1.6 percentage points a year.
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As many will have read, there were a number of press reports (NYT, Guardian, InsideClimate)
about the non-disclosure of Willie Soon's corporate funding (from Southern Company (an energy
utility), Koch
Industries, etc.) when publishing results in journals that require such disclosures.
If a new administration immediately places a moratorium on new coal - fired plants until CCS works, and if it begins a carbon cap - and - trade system or carbon tax, and if it's serious
about the problem, then we will finally see (I hope) the coal and
utility industries begin to act much more quickly to develop CCS and work to address the problem in all ways possible.
In the 1980s the
utility industry consistently underestimated the full costs of nuclear by
about a factor of three.
The Kochs» attack on electric vehicles raises the question of how
utilities, which as an
industry have often provided financial support to the Koch network of operatives, feel
about the Koch network's new pivot.
The electric
utility industry is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for one - third of total US greenhouse gas emissions and
about 40 percent of all carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning.
Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of
about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public
Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Scientists had begun to warn electric
utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the
industry's official research and development organization had acknowledged that, «There is growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is real.»
So now the question is no longer
about what would have prompted questions
about skeptic scientists» funding to come up at «an obscure
utility hearing in Minnesota», it's
about why an assistant A.G. would insert material into a public hearing against some of its expert science witnesses concerning an
industry corruption insinuation based on a suggestion coming from a private citizen who had nothing to do with the topic at all just eight or so weeks earlier.
Scientists had begun to warn electric
utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the
industry's official research and development organization had
As an exercise in making predictions
about the future, is it possible to predict what kinds of impacts the Governor's order will have on the public
utility industry in California?
So, here's the list of the organizations that are the key groups that are doing something: Plug In America, Electric Auto, with chapters all over the Bay Area; ElectricDrive.org, that's the trade association of the
industry; the Sierra Club has gone big into plug - in cars, now; ProjectGetReady.org is the Rocky Mountain Institute, Amory Lovins» spinoff, that's
about readiness in communities; and all your local
utilities.
There is a lot of talk
about the subsidies being given to green
industries, but actually it is just 1 % of what
utilities spend to provide electricity across India
Private
industry will find new ways to profit of our needs and state (or locally) owned
utilities are part of what helped build our nation into the greatness it is
about to fall from.
«Canada's wind
industry is leaving this year's conference energized and excited
about the opportunities that are emerging as governments,
utilities and consumers across Canada recognize that wind energy not only benefits the climate, but makes economic sense as well.
That's what the Solar Energy
Industries Association and Vote Solar are saying
about a recent change to a rate design proposal from San Diego Gas & Electric, the first of the state's big three
utilities to start the shift to time - of - use (TOU).
From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and
utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people
about the reality of warming - driven climate change.
Four of the most vocal proponents within the national security community and
utility industry made up one of the panels talking
about ways to reduce America's dependence on imported oil.
Although there is still a lot of work to be done before a municipal
utility could deliver power in Boulder, the decision by voters has raised many questions
about SmartGridCity and the ability of Xcel Energy to provide renewable energy to a city that has an active cleantech
industry.
But when you get to the policy level, the discussion is all
about cap and trade for
industry and
utilities and solar technologies and wind technologies — it's all supply side.
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.
Virginia's state climatologist, whose doubts
about global warming and
utility -
industry funding made him a lightning rod on climate change issues, quietly left his position over the summer.
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