Bulgaria's prime minister called for a sharp cut in electricity prices and revoking the license of the country's largest foreign-controlled power supplier.
Investors in the so-called public-private partnership include Russian Railways, national power utility Unified Energy System and state-controlled pipeline operator Transneft.
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BrightSource generates electricity using an approach called concentrated solar power, in which computer-controlled mirrors, known as heliostats, focus the sun's heat to boil water and turn a steam turbine.
Historically, unions have been against such laws, fearing that they would be company-controlled and would therefore undermine their power.
We saw a number of Electric Imp demos and appliance ideas at the booth including a simple hand-held "detonator" toggle switch with LED, seven-segment counter, water level sensor, servo-controlled gauge, RGB light, power socket, Christmas light, power monitor, toy washing machine, 16x16 LED display and receipt printer (the latter two being combined to show the avatars and tweets of anyone mentioning the Electric Imp) -- all Internet aware.
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Meanwhile Mr Maliki is also co-operating with a shadowy parliamentary committee controlled by the INA that has the power to banish politicians for alleged sympathies with Saddam Hussein and for senior membership of his Baath party.
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Over the past several months, Sprint, which is in the process of being acquired by Japanese-controlled wireless carrier Softbank, has petitioned the FCC to drastically reduce the power levels of DISH's spectrum to further Sprint's desire to acquire the neighboring H Block spectrum, which today is essentially a vacant lot with no current licensees or users.
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Hyderabad-based GVK, controlled by Indian billionaire GV Krishna Reddy, owns airports, power plants and other infrastructure projects in India.
Your smartphone now harnesses the processing power of a multi-million dollar mainframe computer that not so long ago filled an environmentally-controlled room.
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On Sunday, the team hopes to power the mower past the 100mph barrier for a new world record on the Ministry of Defence-controlled foreshore at Pendine Sands.
Various countries also have been formulating new rules or guidelines to assure that before satellites completely lose power and no longer can be controlled, operators will abide by plans to park them in out-of-the-way orbits or safely bring them back to earth.
Imagine a deal involving emission sources in China, which has some of the world's most polluting coal-fired power plants, and California, which is on a course to become one of the most stringently controlled states in carbon emissions.
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