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.
While some companies have focused on making the data centers themselves more efficient, the growing energy consumption could give the IT industry the power to influence energy production.
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Unlike many of its debt-laden EU partners, Poland's economy is still thriving, making it reluctant to impose costs on its heavy industry and power installations which could put it at a disadvantage vis-a-vis neighbours with greener economies.
Critics of the nuclear power industry say the plant is unsafe to operate at any power level and should be shut down permanently and dismantled.
Of the 10 who dropped out altogether (one other, Gracias Saldanha, died in July), 4 have their fortunes tied to the power industry, which is plagued by fuel shortages, including power producer L. Madhusudan Rao of Lanco Infratech and power-equipment maker B.
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It made life so difficult in the power industry, that some foreign investors quit in disgust, causing power shortages.
Germany's power industry is highly fragmented -- there are roughly 1, 100 power companies, many of them small, inefficient and owned by cash-strapped municipalities that would happily get out of the business.
The Swiss phase out raises more doubts about the future of the nuclear power industry.
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Not just for the nuclear power industry, but for our society as a whole.
Britain missed out on leadership in the wind-power industry, scooped by Germany and Denmark.
The power industry supports that program, but has been fighting New Source Review in the courts.
Right now the majority of the deals in the power industry are happening in Europe.
The stodgy electric power industry is in need of a lot of shaking up.
Last week, the Brazilian senate passed a measure that grants fiscal incentives to the nuclear power industry.
As supplies grew and the price of natural gas plummeted, the ground shifted under the electric-power industry.
Coal has dominated the U.S. power industry for so long because it's a cheap and abundant domestic resource.
This is the idea behind smart metering, which has made a good deal of progress in the power industry.
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This is excellent news for the company itself and also good news for the solar power industry itself.
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The state of the power industry causes problems for the country not just because electricity is in short supply.
Reliability is a critical consideration at all times in the electric power industry.
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The nuclear power industry is also flourishing in South Korea, which could add as many as ten plants by 2010.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev went into damage control mode on Wednesday for the nuke power industry in his country.
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For example, in 2005, the power industry used 200 million gallons a day to generate electricity via thermoelectric systems.
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Jack Wakeland, an engineer employed in the nuclear power industry, expanded on Ignatius's revelation at The Intellectual Activist Web site.
We know that this year has not been a good one for the Chinese wind power industry as growth slowed dramatically.
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In the past few years, the U.S. power industry has increasingly replaced coal with natural gas as the fuel of choice.
Across the power industry, cash payments rose from 6-7% at the start of 1997 to 13-14% by the end of it.
And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
As gwkimball pointed out, Rickover and his team helped to build the Shippingport and to develop the very early nuclear power industry.
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