Sentences with phrase «when energy companies»

The price of oil at $ 64 per barrel is about half of what it was at the peak in 2014, when energy companies were doing extensive exploration.

Not exact matches

In October, when hay season ends, Stinger employees drive machines to energy companies, national labs, or universities doing alternative fuel projects and help the farmers that supply them bale, stack, and haul residue left in their fields.

When Joseph Kruger II, CEO and chairman of the family's eponymous company, Kruger Inc., was awarded Quebec's Medal of the National Assembly last year, Quebec Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Pierre Arcand praised Kruger's career as an «entrepreneur.»

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

«When you start thinking about that you can see them grabbing market cap from energy companies which are some of the largest market - cap companies,» said Munster.

This is a far cry from what Liberal MP John Mackay had in mind in 2009 when he tabled a private member's bill that would have charged the Department of Foreign Affairs with investigating complaints, holding mining and energy companies to legalistic standards and withholding government support from those found to be offside.

But, don't forget that narrative thread: When you have spent years devoting energy to creating, developing and finally launching a new product or service, you may find it difficult to turn past your company's «page» and look at its story as a whole.

Barak Eilam, a first - time CEO who leads $ 1.3 billion company NICE, explained it this way: «When you manage a company of six thousand employees you need to understand that in order to shift this large boat five degrees to the right, you need to invest a lot of energy and power, and sometimes overshoot and then correct to the left.»

As crude prices began to plunge last year, many energy experts predicted a repeat of 1986 when U.S. oil companies lost their funding and the industry collapsed into a yearslong bust.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

That's left a lot of junk bond fund managers with plenty of exposure to the energy sector at a time when oil prices have crashed and defaults, particularly among fracking companies, are rising.

So, when he learned of the franchise company SuperGreen Solutions, which creates customized energy - management plans, the fit felt just right.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

Instead, the focus has been on making more loans to energy companies and building stronger relationships with clients so that when volumes pick up, more of the activity will go to Morgan Stanley, the sources said.

In the early 2000s, when the company decided to start Taobao, its eBay competitor, he had his team do handstands during breaks to keep their energy levels up.

On Monday, Alberta introduced legislation that allows the energy minister to use export permits to tell truckers, pipeline companies and rail operators how much of what products can be shipped when and where.

Kevin Knobloch, just back from three - plus years in Washington as former Secretary Moniz's chief of staff, made the following points when he spoke recently to an audience of energy company owners and operators outside Boston.

When we do invest in a company, we're committing far more than capital — we're also committing our firm's time, energy, and network.

Perhaps most telling, when Google CEO Sundar Pichai was talking on Tuesday, he didn't show the kind of excitement and energy he shows at Google I / O, the company's annual event for developers.

When Mark Cannella started a home energy auditing company back in 1995, «green was just a color,» he says.

Warren Buffett learned that the hard way this summer, when Elliott used its financial might to successfully block Berkshire Hathaway's bid for energy company Oncor, by buying up company debt and pledging to exercise its creditor veto right.

But the comedian knew he was poking a bear: When his writers reached out to Murray Energy for comment, the company sent a letter instructing the show to «cease and desist from any effort to defame, harass, or otherwise injure Mr. Murray or Murray Energy» and added that «failure to do so will result in immediate litigation.»

When you're starting your SaaS company it can be tempting to get customers any way you can — regardless of the cost, time, and energy.

Founded in 2015 when Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial merged, Spruce Finance aims to be the best consumer finance company in the energy efficiency and residential solar markets.

Shares of energy companies are set to book their steepest monthly drop in August since the end of 2015, when the oil price crash was in full swing.

Reuters reported at the time of the March deal that it was the largest takeover of a Canadian company by a foreign firm since 2015, when Spanish - based Repsol agreed to buy Talisman energy.

Most importantly, provide company management with ready access to professionals and partners with deep, demonstrated knowledge and experience in dealing with virtually every imaginable business challenge encountered when growing in the energy services industry

I think there are many options out there for the «gambling» types when it comes to finding alternative energy companies to invest.

It found 89 per cent of managers agreed energy transition risks - such as increasing emissions regulations or growing competition from clean tech alternatives - will significantly impact the valuations of the oil companies in the next five years, compared to 46 per cent when the survey was conducted in 2017.

But when solar projects sell to a utility company, they compete with other sources of energy, and every cent counts.

People could charge the batteries when the sun shines brightest and then use them at night to drastically reduce their dependence on their energy company.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

The problem, as with so much that goes on in the energy sector, is that his company's consulting prospects are precarious, his health is uncertain, and when he can retire is unclear.

When diving into the valuation ratios based on trailing earnings and free cash flow, the energy sector offered a choice was between E&P and Integrated oil companies that had sustained large drops in their earnings, and Refiners who had an earnings yield close to 12 %, and had seen an uptick in earnings.

-- some of the many acquisitions could lead to further write downs, especially if a new CEO comes in and goes for the «kitchen sink» approach — especially the energy business has some structural problems — fundamentally the company is cheap but not super cheap — often, when the bad news start to hit, the really bad news only comes out later like for instance Royal Imtech, which was in a very similar business.

Cation is led by Sandy Edmonstone, a former Macquarie Capital Markets investment banker who, along with others, played a pivotal role in ensuring debenture holders of Twin Butte Energy received full value when that company entered receivership in 2016.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

Oakey's COHRAL ™ plant — the largest GWE Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon in the world — will produce 183.3 gigajoules of energy a day when it reaches design capacity through the combustion of methane produced, says the Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions, Mr Michael Bambridge, whose company represents GWE technologies in Australia.

But while Monster Energy represents a seismic shift from how NASCAR typically engaged consumers — new and old alike — the company's approach to marketing is also precisely what NASCAR sought when it entered into a two - year agreement with Monster to serve as its Cup Series title sponsor, Steve Phelps, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief global sales and marketing officer, told SB Nation.

* «We will direct the establishment of new generation plants when it is determined by the PSC that an energy company is not developing a generating site due to private economic interests.»

And even if Iran really managed to sign new contracts with foreign energy companies, these companies will still face major obstacles when it comes to actually investing, operating and advancing these contracts.

Also charged in the 10 - count case are Peter Galbraith Kelly, a former energy company executive who hired Percoco's wife at a time when it was seeking assistance from Albany with a downstate power plant, and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, founders of Syracuse - based Cor Development that prosecutors say paid Percoco to help with projects in central New York.

Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

When he was told payments were meant for spouse of Joseph Percoco, energy company official tells court it set off warning bells.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

In his investigation at the time, Cuomo prompted more than a dozen wind energy companies to adopt his «code of conduct» when dealing with local officials.

A Montana energy company that had only two full - time employees when Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico has been tasked with restoring the power grid in the cash - strapped territory.

Percoco was among a slew of defendants named in an 80 - page complaint unsealed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today, outlining schemes to take favorable state actions for an energy company that in exchange employed Percoco's wife (when discussing her salary, Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe colorfully used the codeword «ziti,» a kind of macaroni, for money — something he lifted from The Sopranos) and to rig bids considered by SUNY Polytechnic University for funding through Cuomo's economic development program, the Buffalo Billion.

We've got ta have a public energy system — not rely on companies motivated by private profit who make more money when they sell more electricity or fuel.