Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund.
The capital's power, whether exerted by Moscow or (in earlier days) by St Petersburg, has awed provincials for centuries.
The hunt for acquisitions is being driven by the huge capital demands facing power companies over the next quarter century.
With Enernoc, Brewster and Healy are pioneering a business idea that may save the U.S. from wasting a lot of capital on the power plants used to supply electricity during seasonal peaks.
The road builders association, 105 years old and headquartered just off the main drag in Georgetown--the residence for many if the capital's power brokers--has 40 employees in Washington, 5, 000 corporate and public sector members, and a fierce ability to set an agenda.
Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.
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The threat of higher taxes and the foreboding implications of heavy handed regulation repel capital and impede its power.
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Westinghouse Electric, for example, scooted capital out of its power business and plowed it into land deals, expecting the inflation-hedge game to continue unabated.
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Because many owners of sari-sari stores are housewives, the Hapinoy program could also provide women with more power and capital to take control of their own businesses.
This is the Democrats chance to recapture that narrative, to turn the discussion back to the dignity of the middle class, to the importance of policies that do not simply push power and capital ever upward.
Major shareholders are New Enterprise Associates with 37.9% of voting power and Meritech Capital Partners with 6.4%.
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Beginning Monday, the capital will begin having its power cut off for three hours at a time.
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Major shareholders are New Enterprise Associates with 37.0% of voting power and Meritech Capital Partners with 6.31%.
Solar power is more capital intensive than the majority of competing clean-energy applications.
Meanwhile, the opposition has set up a shadow government, but it is still far from taking power in the capital, Bishkek.
It is a fair bet that offshore power's capital cost will fall.
Like many finance majors, he believed in the power of the capital market and wanted to pursue finance as a long term career.
The Bangladeshi government has ordered the partial shut-down of natural gas stations in and around the capital to counter a growing power crisis.
Why is it that private equity firms, like Bain Capital, hold so much power and leverage when it comes to startup companies?
An environment such as this puts investors in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between preservation of capital and preservation of purchasing power.
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the long-term cost of solar power (including capital investment and maintenance) comes to 25 cents per kilowatthour.
Many renewables, like wind and solar power, are expensive, intermittent, and difficult to scale for example, while nuclear power is extremely capital intensive and faces substantial local opposition.
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Conrad cites the recent news of Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs buying power plants as a sign that the smart money believes the electric generation business is still undervalued.
The report cites other benefits such as the avoidance of major capital expenditures associated with new power plants and even the retirements of some older and less efficient generators.
Here, about 30, 000 families (no one knows for sure how many) crowd into a warren of hastily thrown-together shacks on the fringes of Ghana's capital: there is no power, sewerage or running water, diarrhoea and other diseases are rife and deadly fires rapidly take hold.
Because of the very large amounts of capital tied up in homes, buildings, power plants and industrial and transportation equipment, gradually transitioning to a capital stock that emits less carbon dioxide is much less expensive than an abrupt change.
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Banks could conserve billions in much needed capital until they reach normalized earnings power maybe by 2011.
"Shareholder voting power in more traditional capital structures affords shareholder considerable protection against these situations, " he said.
If the levy on bank accounts is approved, it would reduce spending power and likely deter capital inflows.
The African Union suspended the CAR's membership after the Seleka rebel group seized power and overran the capital, Bangui.
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