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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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.
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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There are many challenges to bringing about revolutionary change in the evolving electric industry.
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 proposed Wanxiang deal for A123 is important for what it says about the electric vehicle industry generally, and the state of the industry in the United States and China, respectively.
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Showing that there are no doubts about the importance of deepwater drilling in the oil and gas industry, General Electric announced a plan to purchase 100% of subsea pipeline manufacturer Wellstream Holdings .
The stodgy electric power industry is in need of a lot of shaking up.
The move is not uncommon, especially in the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry.
Over the past decade, the U.S. electric power industry has reduced carbon emissions, reigned in demand growth and diversified the portfolio of energy resources used to generate electricity provided by the power grid.
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The main factor in the slow rate of change probably has had to do with the structure and culture of the electric industry.
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And yet, the electric and natural gas industry operate in a similar fashion all the time.
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Earlier this week, the Edison Electric Institute, the industry group for investor-owned utilities, circulated a letter in the House urging lawmakers not to vote for the RPS. Corporations such as Atlanta-based Southern Company and Charlotte-based Duke Energy hold firm that a renewable mandate is a state issue, not a federal one.
Earlier this week, the Edison Electric Institute, the industry group for investor-owned utilities, circulated a letter in the House urging lawmakers not to vote for the RPS. Corporations such as Atlanta-based Southern Company and Charlotte-based Duke Energy (nyse: DUK - news - people ) hold firm that a renewable mandate is a state issue, not a federal one.
The companies, along with their industry group, the Edison Electric Institute, lobbied hard against a provision in the House bill that would make them obtain at least 15% of their fuel from renewable sources.
If you look at the track record of the electric utility industry, we are doing that in real time.
Those increases, in turn, trigger increases in the production of the inputs to the iron ore industry, electric utilities, etc.
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Those with expertise in the automotive industry can apply their talents to wind turbine, Electric Vehicle (EV) and Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) markets.
In an interview two weeks ago, Sohinder Gill, the head of the Indian Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles and CEO of Hero Electric, said that he and other leaders in the industry are meeting with government officials to hammer out the details of the EV stimulus plan.
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With this action, Nissan becomes the first and only manufacturer in the automotive industry to provide limited warranty coverage for battery capacity loss for electric vehicles.
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Now in its third model year, the highly innovative, industry leading Nissan LEAF pure electric vehicle features an extensive list of important enhancements for 2013.
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Some context: The electric vehicle market in India is small even by the standards of the fledgling global industry.
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Thanks to a series of severe storms that clobbered electric-power grids in New York and Connecticut recently, the fuel-cell industry appears poised for a modest to massive growth spurt.
The range of electric car batteries is known to shrink sometimes in cold weather, as industry experts have discovered.
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