Experts testifying Thursday encouraged lawmakers to provide financial incentives to utilities and states to encourage smart metering programs.
High spending levels can thus have adverse financial consequences for utilities, especially if they are likely to require rate increases.
The company believed that the key to building mail would be to get financial institutions and utilities to use the postal system.
The stars of the stockmarket are no longer mining companies and manufacturers but blue-chip utilities and financial firms.
The portfolios look like typical value funds in that they're rich in utilities, financial stocks and firms with controlling shareholders.
The heart of Windsor II's portfolios is oil, utilities and financial services.
For apples-to-apples comparisons we excluded financial institutions, REITs, utilities and limited partnerships.
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Transportation, financial systems, emergency services, utilities, and government applications are just a few examples of services that need absolute availability and robust security.
Last week, Japan's parliament approved a plan - including financial contributions from taxpayers and other utilities - to help the company compensate victims of the disaster at the plant.
The mobile money industry has also triggered a new wave of development, inspiring the creation of many secondary businesses, ranging from innovative financial services to the provision of utilities and digital goods.
All that translates into higher capital costs, which means that utilities must go to the financial markets.
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We convened a series of meetings with seven different sectors of our economy: technology, health care, financial services, small businesses, energy and utilities, service and retail, as well as manufacturing and construction.
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It found that when news hits the energy markets, commercial traders at airlines, oil companies and utilities are the first to react, with financial traders following.
Founded in 1889, Omaha-based Berkshire owns major stakes in disparate industries, including insurance, railroad, manufacturing, and regulated utilities, as well as in energy, financial and retailing.
Mr Parr's financial institutions group contains more than one renegade, as do the utilities and restructuring teams.
On-bill repayment was presented (PDF) to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) by Brad Copithorne, Energy and Financial Policy Specialist with the San Francisco office of the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF).
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Utilities, of course, are attuned to their local communities and the financial pressures that their stakeholders now face.
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Trimmer and richer, utilities are now "desperately looking to spend, " says Koen Dierckx, financial analyst at KBC Securities, part of the Belgian KBC banking group.
As utilities move from planning to implementation of smart-grid systems, they will face a clutch of financial, regulatory and technical challenges.
Sectors most sensitive to the economy, such as financial and industrials shares, led declines across nine of the index's 10 sectors while defensive sectors such as utilities performed relatively better.
The company's industry segments are primarily financial services and insurance comprising enterprises providing banking, finance and insurance services, manufacturing, enterprises in the energy, utilities, communication and services and retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics and life sciences.
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