The news comes at a time when federal regulators are examining the state of competition wholesale energy markets.
That will mean more reforms to make hiring and firing easier, more privatisation and more competition in energy and telecoms.
Today there are inflationary pressures rising from population growth, competition for energy and natural resources, and from the rising middle class of the Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
If you are in oil or gas, pay for studies criticising the disruptive exercise of competition law on energy suppliers.
Speaking to the BBC, Richard Lloyd of consumer group Which? criticised the opacity and lack of competition in the energy market.
It would hive off the gas and rail networks, apparently as a first step towards promoting genuine competition in both energy and transport.
The strategy makes sense in the airline market where there is fierce competition and volatile energy prices make profit margins razor thin for many carriers.
FORBES: Alaska Airlines Gets Social With Facebook, Stock Looks Friendly
By last September, though, fierce competition in deregulated energy markets had sent the share prices of both Orion and Constellation down to half their peaks.
But after years of asbestos litigation, mounting overseas competition, rising energy prices and labor costs, the aluminum company filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and was liquidated.
ON's bid does, however, pose a dilemma for Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner, because it runs counter to her efforts to increase competition in European energy markets.
That sort of competition brings welcome energy and innovation.
The price rise should not only help pay for imported fuel to replace lost nuclear power, but might, officials think, also encourage competition in the energy sector by pushing big industrial users of electricity to shop around for the best deal.
ECONOMIST: A troubled utility is to be as good as nationalised
The public finances may be solid (public debt is around 40% of GDP), but the government has been slow to make reforms such as trimming a high minimum wage, reducing the size of the unregistered economy and increasing competition to reduce energy and other costs.
The energy company that won the Which? competition, Co-operative Energy, lists a number of concerns on its website.
In the face of intense competition in the clean energy sector, America faces two choices.
FORBES: Solyndra's Failure Is No Reason To Abandon Federal Energy Innovation Policy
It is a catch-all, dealing with technology, energy, competition and small business, often alongside other power-hungry agencies, such as the environment ministry or the European Commission.
Irrationally demonizing hydraulic fracturing to the point that they could achieve a ban on it would eliminate competition for their favored energy sources in the marketplace.
Analysts said the arrest suggested the new president would move aggressively not only on education, but also to pass deeper overhauls to Mexico's economy, including opening up its telecommunications sector to more competition and the closed energy sector to greater private investment.
The PRI and PAN both want a more flexible labour market and to open the energy sector to competition.
Then there is an ambitious reform which would open much of the state-run energy sector to competition, though how is not yet clear.
ArcelorMittal Steel USA is finding an uncommon way to beat the competition: It is cutting energy consumption at one of its steel plants in Chicago by re-using heat to make electricity.
On one hand, France has led the world in deploying nuclear energy and forcing local competition in broadband provisioning.
FORBES: Obama Should Resist Sarkozy's Quest to Regulate the Internet
The competition between water, food and energy is affecting everything we care about.
FORBES: World Water Day 2013: The Biggest Story of Our Lifetime is Water
Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan described the reforms as "the most radical shake-up of the energy bill market since competition began".
She was determined to implement the policies, however uncomfortable and unpalatable they were at the time, to inject energy, enterprise and competition into business and into the economy.
U.S. support for the Nabucco line would not only ensure true European energy diversity through fair competition, but also prevent the consolidation of the natural gas industry for decades to come.
These could range from an overhaul of the tax code to deregulation of farming and the opening up of protected areas of the economy, such as transport and energy, to foreign competition.
China recently completed a 1, 100-mile gas pipeline to connect its factories and power plants to the vast gas reserves of Central Asia, part of China's stiff competition with Europe over a key energy source.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
FORBES: Researchers Warn Of Climatic Consequences To Harvesting Wind Energy On Mass Scale
However, there were way too many attempts in the competition and I did not spare enough energy.
应用推荐