It is everything in the electric utility business, where regulators essentially control company revenues and profit.
Fifteen years ago, finding this kind of safe, no-surprises play in the electric utilities sector was a no-brainer.
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Reliability is a critical consideration at all times in the electric power industry.
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Implementation of this standard and the supporting hardware built to the standard have attracted significant attention in the electric utility industry.
And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said ministers were committed to ensuring that the UK was a "world leader in the electric car industry".
"Many people who went to work in the electric power industry were there for 25, 30, 40 years, " instructor Rulon Crawford says.
Yet these two large software companies did not have many users in the electric power industry, especially any focused on power generation and grid management.
Although I am not currently involved in any clean coal projects, I have spent a fair amount of my time in the electric utility industry.
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The DOE said presently less than 10 percent of power electronics is involved in the electric industry, from the generator to the use of the electricity.
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In this case, I looked at the MMD A Electric Power as a benchmark, since there is no MMD for BBB-rated bonds in the electric power sector.
"It might strike people as a lot of money really early, " says Corsell of GridPoint's fund-raising success, but he adds that the business of investing in the electric grid is highly capital intensive.
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
"The abiding memory is of her arriving and leaving church in the electric scooter and she used to come in the side door, scoot across, park up and into the front pew, " he said.
The historically low levels of investment in research and development in the electric utility industry combined with an anemic history of adopting new technologies has convinced many people that the utility industry is constitutionally incapable of innovation.
Whether the solution is carbon capture or nukes, the capital cost of keeping carbon out of the air is going to be gigantic, and the economically painful process will probably set off a wave of mergers in the electric power business.
Every major automaker has skin in the electric vehicle game, so the current National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into Chevy Volt battery fires potentially threatens the whole industry, not just Chevrolet and its parent, General Motors.
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Unlike other areas identified by the Economist, where technological process has indeed slowed, and economic growth has gone along with it, there may be tremendous potential remaining in the electric energy industry precisely because it has remained relatively bottled up and stagnant for most of the last 100 years.
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The choices in the electric motorcycle market just keep getting juicier, and while you'll still have to stick with the more established brands like Brammo, Zero or BRD if you're looking to make a purchase, a hot new prototype has just been unveiled that threatens to make them all look a little bit... pedestrian.
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With regards to whether Toyota's setback could give GM an edge in the electric car game, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said, "I think that our No. 1 competitor has some problems with their technology, and I do think that it very definitely opens a window of opportunity for us to be first to market with a genuine plug-in hybrid, " which sounds like fightin' words, if you ask us.
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In addition, the electric utility lobby in Washington is extraordinarily powerful, and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents public utility heavyweights like Edison International, Exelon and Constellation Energy Group, is fully behind the department's announcement of "national interest" zones.
As previously mentioned, we are also looking at opportunities to improve the precision of the battery capacity gauge that displays remaining capacity in the LEAFs electric vehicle battery, and intend to have more to report on this topic in the New Year.
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Last week I interviewed Sohinder Gill, the CEO of Hero Electric, the largest maker of electric two-wheelers in India, to learn about the state of electric vehicles in India.
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For all of its flaws, the Bloom deal in Delaware established a small window of opportunity for cleantech firms to participate in the traditional electric utility rate setting process.
Some highlights of the show, for me, included a drive in the Volvo C30 electric, a ride from the airport in the Chevy Volt, a chance to see the Nissan Leaf on the brink of introduction, ambitious startups from Coda, Wheego and AMP Electric Vehicles, and a lot more.
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Bearing the Mercedes star as an unmistakable trademark, the B-Class Electric Drive will be launched first in the USA at the beginning of 2014, where it will be the first luxury battery electric car from Mercedes-Benz in the market.
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The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its electric bills for the winter.
There are many challenges to bringing about revolutionary change in the evolving electric industry.
It seems hard to imagine now, but General Motors not long ago produced the most environmentally friendly automobile in the world: the electric vehicle called EV-1.
So for tall people who like to sit close to the steering wheel, your head will hit the sunshade in the Fortwo Electric Drive Coupe.
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