Mr Kim, an avid advocate against global warming, said the bank's and the world's top priorities needed to be energy pricing, ending fuel subsidies and making low-carbon cities.
"The environmental issue is very much a strong driver of what's going on, and it's not just related to energy pricing, " says John Cavalier, the chairman of the global energy group at Credit Suisse.
"The environmental issue is very much a strong driver of what's going on, and it's not just related to energy pricing, " says John Cavalier, the chairman of the global energy group at Credit Suisse (nyse: CSR - news - people ).
Also, Goldman points out that energy stocks are pricing in an oil price below the current spot price.
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The overall benefits of such a program could reach 67 billion euros in operational efficiencies and energy savings if dynamic pricing becomes the default.
As process manufacturers, chemicals companies are on the upstream side of the overall consumer value chain, with heavy exposure to raw material pricing and energy costs.
The end result is a cellular network that supports billions of objects and provides unprecedented low pricing, low energy consumption and long range communication.
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Lehman Brothers sank 10% in trading Monday after a report that it had been shut out of trading some energy contracts by Platts, a pricing service, on counterparty concerns.
They should be thinking about how to position themselves at the center of the energy information network, supplying the pricing and real-time usage information to the customer and his or her machines.
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The website is designed chiefly for policy makers who want to see what issues their counterparts in other jurisdiction have tackled to promote wind energy generation, such as the pricing structures, said Heather Rhoads-Weaver, a market and policy consultant with eFormative Options, which led the initial design of the web tool.
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The nearly complete focus of the subsequent Congressional energy and climate debate on the primacy of carbon pricing may have ultimately prevented meaningful debate on how to optimize and extend the critical, comprehensive clean energy investments begun under to stimulus and enact a long-term investment strategy to strengthen clean energy competitiveness.
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Their proposal is the latest to link carbon pricing with investments in clean energy.
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In addition, these systems monitor electric system parameters and pricing information to manage consumers energy costs, comfort, and health according to end-users personal preferences.
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Nuclear energy's best hope lies in carbon pricing, which forces fossil-fuel plants to pay for the environmental cost of the carbon they generate.
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This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.
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One possible solution to get more homes on dynamic pricing: Make it the default energy billing system, as it is for commercial and industrial customers in most parts of the country.
The government said it was building on recent proposals by the energy regulator Ofgem, which has been looking into pricing for some time.
It has a good variety of pricing and quality set in a high energy environment with hundreds of thousands of people involved in the sales.
Natural gas was selling in the teens then, in roughly a 1:6 ratio to the energy value in a barrel of oil, and pricing was proportionate.
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Not all customers need to sign up for advanced pricing schemes for overall savings from operations and lower energy use to exceed the cost of smart meter programs, says Val Jensen, VP of marketing and environmental programs at ComEd.
More recently, Hansen Natural with its Monster energy drinks has opened up new markets and even commanded more premium pricing than traditional soft drinks.
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Finally, CONSOL Energy and Peabody Energy are big beneficiaries of the convergence of high sulfur and low coal pricing.
Waste-to-energy and landfill-gas projects are likely to benefit most from green pricing, at least at first, because their costs are already close to those of conventional power producers.
China wants to enhance its domestic production as a pricing hedge, all while the U.S. considers domestic energy development to be nothing short of a second industrial revolution.
These costs are separate from investments, taxation, subsidies, loan structure, and other costs that are associated more with pricing and financing than with what the actual costs are to produce that energy.
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Until smart pricing evolves to match smart meters, consumers are unlikely to cut their energy use much, and greenhouse gas reductions--an additional advantage that has been promised to result from the smart grid--will likely be minimal.
"You'd be led to believe that you put in real-time pricing and a nice Web site and immediately get a 15% reduction in energy use, " says Accenture's Guthridge.
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