The Supreme Court agreed to wade into some of the biggest and most contentious issues facing corporations today when it accepted appeals of a massive discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores and a lawsuit by states seeking to control utility carbon dioxide emissions.
OnStar will allow researchers to develop services such as demand-response that would allow drivers that sign up to let the utility control when their Volt is charged to minimize the impact on the grid in exchange for receiving a lower electricity rate or other incentives.
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But with a smart grid in place, a utility could restructure rates, and then offer all its customers products that allow either the customer, or the utility, to control usage based on demand and hourly rates.
The power and utility companies like to have control over the power supply and control over the transmission lines.
Experts had testified that the federal utility failed to monitor and control water quality pressure in the dikes that constrained the material.
As the Senate exercises its responsibilities as a co-equal branch in the making of international treaties, its real expertise and alternative visions about the feasibility, utility and desirability of arms control must be strengthened, acknowledged and respected.
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It is everything in the electric utility business, where regulators essentially control company revenues and profit.
The control systems were designed years ago when each utility was an island, without any thought given to bulletproofing against online intrusion once everything was linked together.
The oil spill was eventually discovered by a local utility worker and reported to Enbridge's control center, where the flow was stopped.
General Motors, which spends that much on marketing for North America alone, got bitten recently by ceding control of the latest campaign for its Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle to the public.
General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ), which spends that much on marketing for North America alone, got bitten recently by ceding control of the latest campaign for its Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle to the public.
Nearly half of the U.S. has so-called smart meters that allow utility companies to read the data remotely or to help control usage.
In August 2003, Deutsche Telekom, which owns 49% of PTC, offered 1bn euros to win control of the company by buying the rest from Vivendi and Polish utility Elektrim.
One of the most important inputs to the production of broadband networks is rights of way permission to dig up public streets and attach cables to public utility poles which in most cases are under the control of local governments.
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The TRAIN Act would nullify the Utility MACT Rule and direct EPA to adopt less burdensome regulations to control power plant HAP emissions.
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Will any utility really think it makes sense to field ten SMRs with ten control systems and ten safety systems rather than one big PWR?
As Sir Mervyn went out of his way to point out, this is in no small part because of government policies - notably the rise in tuition fees and administered increases in transport and utility bills - which the central bank could not predict, let alone control.
Utility-scale engineers long ago figured out this presents unprecedented operational, safety and control hurdles.
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If, as predicted, utility prices rise by as much as 40% later this year and interest rates are increased to control rising inflation, consumers and consumer facing businesses will face even bleaker times.
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