That attitude is widespread even among Italy's numerous and powerful regional and municipal utilities.
ON, themselves the products of recent mergers, have been buying their way into the municipal utilities from which most Germans buy their electricity and gas.
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Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), a public authority that includes 10 municipal utilities and one irrigation district in southern California, purchased an option to buy two large solar updraft towers being developed in the county of La Paz, Arizona.
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While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not. (On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.) So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.
The landholders can't mortgage what they don't officially own, or get aboveboard municipal services or utilities.
Separately comes a report that municipal bonds backed by water utilities may also be heading toward a crisis due to stress on water tables around the nation.
First West Coast utilities to join up include Puget Sound Energy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Seattle City Light, and Xcel Energy, and nope, none of those overlap with PowerMeter's first enlistees.
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This coalition also includes unions, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, whose members' jobs might disappear, and various other sorts of utilities such as the rural co-operatives (see article) and municipal power companies, anxious lest deregulation lead to the unravelling of the tax-breaks and subsidies they now receive.
Residential electrical bills from some local utilities still go to paying off the costs of the project, which remains the largest municipal bond failure in U.S. history.
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