The manufacturer can shift energy usage to periods when power prices are low to offset the production losses resulting from this arrangement, improving his or her bottom line.
Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.
Only a small shift in national energy policy to favor natural gas over oil would make this play even more attractive as cars shift to natural gas from oil as their primary fuel.
With that will likely come the usual trappings of monopoly: resistance to innovation, a shift in energy from pleasing customers to fighting regulators.
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The world is less dependent on oil than it was, thanks to improved efficiency in the use of energy and to a shift away from heavy industry.
When asked by CNN.com if efforts such as these were evidence of momentum toward a shift in energy policy, many readers said they were skeptical about the rhetoric of lawmakers and their political will.
And it's also going to be impossible to shift our energy policy rapidly, and that will be a big political and proper debate among nations and within nations as to how to respond to that.
The losers in this technological shift will be energy sources that are either dirtier than natural gas (coal, especially) or much more expensive (wind and solar).
That energy depletion would have resulted in a spectral distortion detectable by OPERA. However, the OPERA data did not show either the energy depletion or the spectral shift.
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According to polysilicon producer Renewable Energy, the move by the Chinese government to set up preferential tariffs to boost cleaner energy sources could herald the shift in demand for solar panels from Europe to Asia and the U.S. Some optimistic estimates suggest that China may add as much as 7 GW this year, which is roughly equal the capacity added in Germany in 2011.
We're seeing businesses beginning to make a shift to much more energy-efficient equipment.
We should learn our lessons from this and accelerate as fast as possible the shift towards decentralized renewable energy such as wind power, all over the world.
Nevertheless, he thinks it can capitalize on a shift in the global energy business toward liquefied natural gas, especially as China seeks alternatives to dirty coal-fired power plants and Japan trims its nuclear fleet.
On a related note, Japan's Asahi Shimbun recommends changes in Japan's energy policy, hoping for a quick shift towards more use of natural sources of power.
The entire tax could be rebated at a flat rate to all Americans no matter how much energy they use, making such a shift moderately progressive.
In addition to focusing on education and clean energy, China is also seeking to shift from export-led growth to more domestic consumption supported by a growing service-sector economy.
Western energy companies were quick to notice this shift.
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And discussions of how China can shift to cleaner sources of energy also are part of expanding environmental and energy-related talks that began earlier this year when Vice President Al Gore visited China, the officials said.
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London, together with the rest of the world, must make a decisive shift to an economy in which energy is conserved, not wasted.
The beauty of Kam's approach is that when a sector shift occurs--from tech to energy, say--Kam can consult his 70, 000-member database of investors for the new top 100.
While the city continues to struggle with high unemployment, abandoned buildings, suffering schools and lack of infrastructure, there is a new energy in these downtown neighborhoods that suggests a gradual shift.
The issue of energy efficiency and everything we need to do to shift away from dependence on foreign oil, we're making huge progress. (Applause.) We're actually importing less oil than any time in the last eight years.
In May 2010, Mr Buzek released a joint statement with former Commission president Jacques Delors saying that Europe needed a "shift" in the way in which energy is produced and consumed, and calling for the creation of a "European Energy Community".
It said there would have to be a significant shift to electric cars, powered from renewable energy sources.
In addition to growing energy needs in developing markets, the market is undergoing a shift towards cleaner fuels, like natural gas, from coal.
For the heating of homes and businesses, which accounts for about half of Scotland's energy use, it said there would have to be a shift to more efficient systems and insulation.
Meanwhile, on the state and local level, several developments signal a possible shift among mayors, governors and state legislatures toward energy policies that focus more on renewable fuels and conservation measures.
This relatively minor shift, the model found, still produces enough energy to initiate a wave-like pulse of crystal-shattering snow separation that quickly propagates uphill and leads to a major release of the upper layer.
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