Strictly defined, Private Health isn't part of the growing phenomenon known as concierge medicine, where doctors charge a retainer for more face-time and personal attention, and often take their practices off the commercial and government payment grid.
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The government was not grid-locked.
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UES, which runs Russia's national power grid, the government installed a 29-year-old chief executive and told him to shake the firm up.
Nanogeneration is not reliant on government subsidies, nor a national grid system, and represents an affordable way for people to play a role in the generation of green power.
"There's a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche, " says Nick Rosen, author of "Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America" and editor of www.off-grid.net.
Smart grid technologies have gotten huge government support in the past two years.
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The undersea connection to the national grid was funded by the UK Government and European Union.
Last year, Republicans defeated a White House-backed bill that would have established voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies running critical infrastructure such as the electrical grid, citing concerns about a government role in cybersecurity.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) is among an alliance of groups aiming to influence a government's plan for a 'smart grid' and a new national planning policy on the future of the nation's electricity transmission network.
Where I think government has a role is encouraging innovation that would get us to grid parity.
And the White House has been urging Congress to authorize greater government action to protect infrastructure such as the nation's electric grid and power plants.
Achieving sustained progress on grid modernization requires a partnership between states and the Federal government, as well as collaboration with the private sector, consumer groups, and other stakeholders, and we welcome this partnership.
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Government-supported initiatives such as UK NetYear and the planned National Grid for Learning have focused on the process of connecting schools to the Internet and providing online materials, rather than on setting lower-rate or free access.
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His big worry about both the smart grid and other green energy programs is that tax incentives and government grants are hiding the true costs of the new technologies.
The government had a target of adding 78.7 gigawatts of capacity to its grid in the five years ended March 31 but achieved only about 70% of the relatively modest initial target.
Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly , asked the government to sell it 25% of Unified Energy Systems, which runs the national grid.
The stimulus project will be sponsored by several government departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), State Grid and the National Energy Administration, Wang Sicheng, a senior energy researcher from NDRC, said at a solar industry conference in Beijing last week.
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Jittery investors now have little enthusiasm even for such choice offerings as the telephone monopoly or the power grid, let alone rustbelt industries that still keep some 300, 000 workers on government wages.
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Through an innovative regulatory process set up by the government and the regulator, the main barriers to the deployment of micro-power, such as grid access, are being addressed, and Britain is one of the first countries to have a clear, non-discriminatory access regulation for micro-generators that is supported by the regulator.
The company said in its IPO prospectus that the rate of smart-grid adoption has slowed due to the "timing and tax treatment" of U.S. government stimulus funding.
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