This approach shows promise: water consumers ranging from officials in New York city to private hydro-electric operators in Costa Rica are now paying people upstream to manage their forests and agricultural land better.

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It matters to a lot of companies -- golf course operators, electric utilities, coal miners, movie theaters, grain merchants.

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But the plant's operators, Kansai Electric, say they will not use the fuel.

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Many of these resolutions are focused directly on fossil fuel companies like Exxon, coal-fired electric utilities and hydraulic fracturing operators whose practices need cleaning up.

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Tight compliance schedules create additional challenges for grid operators whose job is to keep electric supply and demand in balance.

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In a bid to help the struggling solar companies, the grid operator unveiled a number of measures last week to ease pressures facing solar project operators in connecting power plants to the electric grid.

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Operators of similar early-vintage General Electric Co.

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Indeed, in the FERC hearings, pipeline operators wanted to know more about the dispatch and operations of the gas-fired electric generation fleet, since it would help them better schedule pipeline operations.

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The operators simply put up warehouses and divide them into many rooms, each with five machines but separate electric meters.

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