In the process, customers are hoping to eliminate wasted energy and utilities are aiming to get better information on fluctuating electricity demand.
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The Institute is also an extension of IBM's long-term alliance with the energy and utilities industry as it moves forward through its most challenging transformation.
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For example, revenue from railroads (BNSF), energy and utilities (MidAmerican Energy) are up 5.4% in the first half of the year, compared to the same period a year ago.
For some time, they have entirely avoided energy and utilities to their disadvantage, while they have over-weighted their exposure to consumer discretionary and consumer staples to their great benefit.
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We convened a series of meetings with seven different sectors of our economy: technology, health care, financial services, small businesses, energy and utilities, service and retail, as well as manufacturing and construction.
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Each member has a strong commitment in investing in future technologies and working collaboratively by combining the best of industrial research with the deep knowledge of the energy and utilities industry that drive innovation across the market.
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The Smarter Energy Research Institute is a first-of-a-kind collaboration between corporate research and the energy and utilities industry to transform leading energy companies through the use of predictive analytics, system optimization and advanced computation to deliver better services to their customers.
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As a result, members can better navigate the transforming energy and utilities environment, collecting insights from the vast amount of information pervading their networks and systems, add further intelligence to the smart grid and uncover new ways that improve business and operational outcomes.
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The Smarter Energy Research Institute represents a new form of collaborative innovation for the energy and utilities industry and is modeled after programs that IBM has successfully implemented with clients in other areas, placing scientists with members from other disciplines and industries, working side-by-side to research and develop new breakthroughs.
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In 2003, IBM co-founded the US-based GridWise Alliance that advocates for grid modernization, and in 2007, IBM formed the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC), a coalition of players in the energy and utilities market, which is helping accelerate the adoption and use of smart grid technologies and bringing digital intelligence to current systems.
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The governor can begin delivering on this promise by supporting AB 1850, a bill introduced by Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon and passed yesterday by the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communication, which would improve the way the California Energy Commission (CEC) considers energy efficiency in rapidly evolving industries like consumer electronics.
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With Basic Industries, Energy and Public Utilities overvalued, stocks are no longer cheap.
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The disappearance of fuel, especially petrol, followed an announcement on Tuesday by the Energy and Water Utilities Authority (Ewura) to reduce retail pump prices of petrol by 9.17 per cent.
The company's industry segments are primarily financial services and insurance comprising enterprises providing banking, finance and insurance services, manufacturing, enterprises in the energy, utilities, communication and services and retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics and life sciences.
The ratings will cover eight broad categories: education, health care, water and waste water utilities, energy utilities, cities, counties and states, transportation, ports and airports, U.S. Treasuries and agency debt.
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The debate is not theoretical and is already having practical implications on both utilities and energy developers.
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The VPP platform provides a suite of capacity and energy reserves products for utilities based on sophisticated load management for homes and small businesses.
The obvious players including grain millers, energy companies, utilities and insurance companies have yet to show up in quantity.
The obvious players -- including grain millers, energy companies, utilities and insurance companies -- have yet to show up in quantity.
Warsaw and Bilski began working on a hedging system in the early 1990s designed to shelter both consumers and utilities against big swings in energy prices and demand.
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They are dominated by state-owned enterprises, which can count on cheap loans and energy from China's state-owned banks and utilities.
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How do you get them to change, and to get them to give the right incentives to the utilities and to the energy companies?
The highest yielding sectors include some usual dividend-investing favorites like utilities and energy, as well as telecommunications.
The Spanish company sells traffic-control systems, as well as programs to reduce energy usage in water utilities and weather-monitoring software.
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Culver's looking for two big victories: a long-term tax credit for production of wind energy and a national mandate requiring utilities to use more renewable energy.
Index underachievers embrace energy, healthcare, utilities and consumer non durables.
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Founded in 1889, Omaha-based Berkshire owns major stakes in disparate industries, including insurance, railroad, manufacturing, and regulated utilities, as well as in energy, financial and retailing.
Foster rethought this completely and realized huge savings in structural mass and energy consumption could be made by shifting the utilities underground, leaving a floating roof and walls that could open to natural daylight.
We are overweight discretionary, healthcare and utilities along with energy, materials and financials.
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