Pylons are a necessary evil if we are to wean ourselves off carbon-based energy.
The best performer from last year: Korea-based energy giant SK , which rose 357%.
The Venezuela-owned PDVSA, which owns the Houston-based energy giant Citgo, has multiple energy deals in Iran.
For technical, policy, and financial reasons, risks are often higher for renewables than fossil-based energy.
The way we live our lives would dramatically change if oil-based energy becomes economically out of reach.
For both of those reasons, there is ample justification to continue developing a non fossil-based energy future.
Natural gas is considered to be a bridge fuel between crude oil and the clean hydrogen-based energy sources of the future.
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However, Credit Suisse and other private equity partners are also reported to be considering a rival bid for the Dallas-based energy company.
The Perth-based energy supplier was hit by asset write-offs affecting profit figures.
"As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy, " he said.
Regardless, ocean-based energy advocates seem to be learning the lessons of their renewable energy predecessors, identifying and addressing environmental impact concerns long before full-scale deployment.
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In fact, it is now positioned as a solution to global climate change as a replacement for fossil fuel based energy (burning coal or natural gas).
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First, the history: Back in 1993, President Clinton proposed a broad-based energy tax (called a BTU tax since it taxed energy content measured in British Thermal Units).
In some sense, the companies are strange bedfellows: Nest is the quintessential Silicon Valley startup and Reliant is part of a large East Coast-based energy company called NRG.
Take the example of Williams, an Oklahoma-based energy company that delayed releasing its final 2001 results while it worked out exactly how to treat potential liabilities related to its telecoms unit.
Everyone had to think about using oil-based energy differently.
"The Kuwaiti minister has said that for credibility's sake Opec will need to increase production by 500, 000 barrels a day and that began the sell-off, " said Chris Mennis of California-based energy trader New Wave Energy.
Lohan reportedly missed her original Sunday night flight from New York to Los Angeles, instead traveling on a private plane provided by a Los Angeles-based energy drink company for which she has made promotional appearances.
In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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For nearly six months the Public Utilities Commission of Texas and an independent market monitor have been investigating whether the Dallas-based energy giant manipulated the state's wholesale energy market by briefly withholding production in order to drive up prices during the summer of 2005.
They argue that the BLM had violated the federal Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws by failing to adequately consider the impact of the wind farm on condors, golden eagles and other protected wildlife when it leased the project site to NextEra, the Florida-based energy developer.
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Despite all the talk of grid-based energy storage, the least expensive solution to the variability of wind and solar power is geographic dispersion, according to Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer of Boston-based inverter company Satcon Technology, (NASD:SATC) speaking at the Building Energy 11 conference in Boston on March 9th.
For stock-pickers seeking smaller U.S. energy companies, Mr. Chandra likes Denver-based SM Energy and Houston-based Oasis Petroleum.
"Yes, it's redistribution, but it's redistribution based on energy profligacy and dependence, " says Kaiser.
Last month it made a deal to buy Austin-based renewable energy provider Green Mountain Energy.
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Two previous strategies, both based around energy-from-waste incinerators, were first approved before being rejected by the States.
Chief executives of utilities that support stronger standards for coal-fired plants, including Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group Inc.
New Jersey-based NRG Energy (nyse: NRG - news - people ) and Albuquerque, N.
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