To make matters worse, Congress and the administration are floating proposals to change existing, long-standing tax laws, delivering an additional blow to American energy companies.
Analysts say the move will be a big blow to the Iranian energy industry - it means Iran is now unlikely to significantly increase its gas exports until late into the next decade.
When Massey Energy had the mine blow up (stock price around 45) we sold and said lets revisit later.
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The collapse of Communism dealt Moscow's nuclear energy industry a big blow.
India, Pakistan and Iran will sign a deal this month to build a natural gas pipeline to help feed the subcontinent's desperate need for energy, a major blow to American sanctions against Tehran and a defeat for U.S. influence in South Asia.
Natural gas now supplies one-fifth of U.S. electricity and will, according to Energy Information Administration forecasts, blow past 40 percent within two decades.
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The UBS report explains that while nuclear energy has suffered a powerful blow, and it is not clear when and how it will get back on its feet, GE will benefit, despite having built the generators, as its strong gas turbine business, along with its smaller renewable portfolio, will step in to cover the output gap generated from a diminishing inventory of nuclear power plants.
"Django Unchained, " which has not one but two blow-out endings, is overlong energy is lost when the narrative loses track of Django's quest for his wife and it will surely be too blood-bespattered for many moviegoers.
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Nor does the wind blow (a likely source of some of their bought in energy) all of the time.
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The energy industry needs to avoid "the same kind of body blow that just hit the financial industry, " billionaire Richard Branson warned Wednesday.
But until recently, the only way to make lasers powerful enough to blow something tough into pieces was to use a chemical laser, which produces its energy through a chemical reaction.
The final blow was last year's announcement by Steven Chu, America's Nobel physics laureate turned energy secretary, that he was cancelling funding for research into hydrogen-powered vehicles generally.
Another blow to the planned expansion came when a 7.62% stakeholder, the San Antonio power company CPS Energy, announced an indefinite suspension of power purchases from the plant.
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