The World Resources Institute, the Clean Air Task Force and Duke Energy have started this work, with great prospects for results.
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This, they worry, could drive out smaller players and force energy producers to have separately capitalised subsidiaries, and might strangle the market in its infancy.
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She said Labour would replace Ofgem with a more trustworthy regulator and force reluctant energy companies to pass on price reductions to customers.
"My countrymen, I love France passionately and have put my whole heart, energy and force into serving her and you, " Chirac said.
And the group isn't overjoyed at the plans of the regulator to force energy companies to simplify and make more transparent how they charge for gas and electricity.
Imagine a health care system that makes up over 20 percent of the U.S. economy and becomes the driving force for safer products, cleaner energy, and healthier communities.
According to studies by the Congressional Budget Office and others, Cap and Trade legislation could force U.S. energy producers to close facilities and cut production to comply with its mandates.
Fifty or more clown groups sprung up as the movement gained force, and kids vented their energy through a supercharged and competitive dance form.
Abramsesque plot revolves around a strange and powerful energy force (are there any other kinds?) that must be stopped or, depending on how you feel about mysterious energy forces, encouraged.
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Although the parties likely to assume power doubtless feel threatened by extremism, the post-electoral situation will force them to focus time and energy on more elemental things: reestablishing civilian rule after nearly a decade out of power, reversing many of Musharraf's recent actions, perhaps seeking his ouster, sorting out differences among themselves, and dealing with pent-up public frustrations about lack of services and other grievances.
It is allowing the steady atrophying of the work force and facilities of the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex.
He looked like he was keeping his head up by sheer force of will, and had no energy left for shaving or other trivialities.
Such a strategy will inevitably contribute to skyrocketing energy prices, erode U.S. energy security and force an unnecessarily complicated and costly transition to newer technologies that have not been fully developed.
In addition to Shell, Chevron and the Heinz Endowments, the participants in the new center include the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, CONSOL Energy, PennFuture and other groups.
While the risk of stagflation is still a long-term phenomenon, inelastic demand curves for food and energy products could force market participants to feel the sting of rising headline inflation and thus cut back to minimum spending.
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As states force energy companies to derive more and more of their electricity from renewable sources, utilities will have to enter the market on all fronts, from owning their own installations to buying SREC-like instruments, to funding new projects and technologies.
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And, when you look underneath the science, dark energy is really an undiscovered force of nature that changes how we understand and explain what we observe to be true.
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Their success began in the early days of 2001 and the struggle over the task force on energy policy.
Cates and Mason last year shook-up the board of Chesapeake Energy, bringing in directors who would later force out co-founder and chief executive Aubrey McClendon.
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All of us who are looking to invest responsibly and grow clean energy are a powerful force for change.
We could choose not to make investments in clean energy or let tuition prices rise and force more Americans to give up on the American Dream.
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Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Xstrata, Peabody Energy and Anglo American have all declared force majeure, a legal clause that allows them to miss supply contracts due to extraordinary circumstances.
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It seems as though only a big crisis will force our country to override all the cynical lobbies and change our energy usage.
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Martinez says the president should pick off a couple of issues -- like a scaled-back energy reform bill and education reform -- and force Republicans to meet him halfway because they are on a short leash with voters as well.
And then he spoke, not with the power of physical force or energy but with something stronger: humility.
But the contracts do achieve the key goal of the Cheney energy task force: all but privatizing the Iraqi oil sector and opening it to private foreign companies.
As for North Korea, it has got away with its nuclear defiance thus far because China, which supplies most of its food and energy imports, still refuses to contemplate sanctions that would force its boss, Kim Jong Il, to choose between his weapons and his regime's survival.
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But it also happens because we no longer have the energy and resources to understand what sentiment means as a democratic force.
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News was slow, time was short and Congress had just outlined a new energy plan that would essentially force these energy-wasting bulbs out by 2012.
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