But in any business struggling for energy and capital, energy efficiency is often the highest-return, lowest-risk investment available, limited less by technology or economics than by culture and imagination.
Who would risk capital, energy, and talent in building a new image search engine when Google presents Google Image Search results automatically?
He is expending great political capital and energy on the proposition that he wants immigration reform done in a bipartisan way and done early.
Framingham, MA based Ameresco helps institutions, mostly government entities, improve their energy infrastructure and reduce energy use without capital outlays or increases in energy budgets.
Think again, says Anas Alhajji, chief economist at NGP Energy Capital Management in Dallas.
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Texas is the energy capital of the world, and Houston is its home base.
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Inventors and entrepreneurs have countless ideas for reducing manufacturing costs, even in the capital-intensive energy industry.
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It's been a harsh reality for the city that bills itself as the energy capital of the world.
Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund.
With whaling, New Bedford used to be the energy capital of the world.
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In Canada the trusts can raise fresh capital to expand energy holdings and theoretically keep rolling into the big-dividend future.
Investors want to commit large amounts of capital to clean energy projects because only with massive scale comes true competitive feasibility.
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In addition to San Francisco-based MMA Renewable Ventures, this new niche of financiers includes Sun Edison of Baltimore and New Energy Capital of Hanover, N.
Given the steep capital costs of energy storage systems, storage technologies must be able to perform multiple services across different parts of the energy value chain.
Now a venture partner at Lux Capital specializing in energy investments, Woolsey said he became interested in alternative energy in the late 1990s, when he and Sen.
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Houston isn't only the world's energy capital but also boasts the world's largest medical center and, along with Dallas, has become a major corporate and global transportation hub.
With the prospects for growth throttled in just about every industry, yields of 8% to 10% in master limited partnerships look pretty good, says David Schulte, chief executive of Tortoise Energy Capital.
Indeed, the flight of capital toward the energy sector cheered on loudly by the right violates the basic economic views that have historically animated the more growth oriented side of the political divide.
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But the Offshore Europe event (1500 exhibitors, 25, 000 square metres of exhibition space, and at least 48, 000 visitors over three days) is a reminder of what it means to be Europe's energy capital.
However, as Ken Hersh the CEO of NGP Energy Capital suggests, the market is in the process of realigning, as there has been a twenty percent correction in rig count (with more to go), which will tighten supply figures over the next 18-24 months.
The goal is to establish a pre-qualified pool of private sector partners positioned to finance development of large scale renewable energy projects and re-coup their capital investment through the sale of energy to the Army, and excess energy back to the grid.
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Non-manufacturing businesses are also moving or expanding operations where labor, land, energy and capital are cheaper.
Certainly, Asia's emphasis on work and economic development leaves little excess energy and capital to spread artistic achievement.
In May Chinese officials suggested the role of private capital in railways, energy and other industries might be expanded.
Not only would lower tax rates spur more innovation and production than any proposed subsidies, they would also liberate private capital to invest in energy independence.
Partly because there are so many of them and partly because we no longer believe wholeheartedly in the enormous energy of capital and business as a redeeming feature of our lives.
Regardless of China's plans to boost domestic energy production, the bottom line remains clear: China will divert considerable capital outlays to pay for imported energy in the coming decade.
They assumed energy costs would remain high permanently and thus sank billions of dollars of scarce capital into developing new low-energy-consuming vehicles such as the hybrids.
Innovative financing ideas and partnerships can help us reap the benefits of capital-intensive projects, such as energy retrofits, without the need to provide the upfront capital required for construction.
After years of failed efforts with regulation-centered energy policy, many more groups are shifting their intellectual capital toward the difficult work of structuring energy innovation policies to catalyze a clean energy revolution.
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