To that end, Shell two years ago bought half of Intergen, a big independent power producer.
The financial district of Boston did not lose power, according to NSTAR, the independent power producer that supplies electricity to downtown Boston.
Recently added to hefty stake in power producer Calpine Corp.
David Crane, chief executive of NRG Energy, made news last week when he announced that the New Jersey-based power producer would abandon further investment in a Texas nuclear power project.
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GenOn, a wholesale power producer based in Houston, has invoked a legal clause typically used after natural disasters to try to stop suppliers from delivering more coal to already overloaded plants.
It was connected to the grid in 2011, and just six weeks ago Bushehr went to full capacity, firmly establishing Iran as the first commercial nuclear power producer in the Middle East.
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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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After Mirant, another power producer, found itself on the verge of a debt-induced meltdown two years ago, it decided to pay only portions of obligations while betting the power market would strengthen enough to give it the cash to pay its interest bills.
The brothers plan to use the money raised to fund an ambitious expansion back home: The group, already the second-largest power producer in India, is increasing its power capacity from 1, 220 megawatts to 6, 100 megawatts by 2012 and 11, 470 megawatts by 2014.
He credits the show's staying power to its timing ("We were in the right place at the right time, " he told The Associated Press), the power of producer James L. Brooks ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show, " the movie "Broadcast News") and its animated format, which allowed the show to avoid meddling Fox note-givers.
Yes, there are times when one specific good is overproduced, but its decline in value occurs in concert with a decline in the purchasing power of the producer of the unattractive good.
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Separately from publicly traded OHL, his privately held Grupo Villar Mir is the largest independent producer of hydroelectric power in Spain, the world's leading producer of silicon metal, a major fertilizer producer, and a real estate developer with projects on the Mediterranean coast, in Florida and in Texas.
He's saved coin by both brokering co-production deals on big-budget shows (by co-producing Crusoe with British producer company Power Entertainment, NBC minimizes its financial contribution and risk) and including more paying advertisers in his shows (his iteration of Knight Rider stars a Ford car).
Take a look at Teco Energy, a Florida electricity producer that sells power nationally.
Commercial organisations such as Wartsila, a leading producer of diesel power plants, have already begun using the software.
But the two biggest deals he signed involving Airbus, an aerospace firm, and Areva, a producer of nuclear power plants were with companies part-owned by Germans.
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For example, India is the world's fourth-biggest producer of wind power.
That would make it the second-largest IPO in Australia and New Zealand this year, after electricity producer Mighty River Power, which is due to list this month.
It lies in the Great Basin, an area where the earth's crust is thin and cracked, so it has great potential as a producer of geothermal power.
The state of Wyoming, which is actually a very big producer of wind power, is now actually considering taxing -- in other words, taking away what you guys are providing with your tax break.
The industry's success in Texas (where my company is based, and which is the nation's largest and cheapest producer of wind power) suggests that wind farms do make sense in relatively windy areas where electricity shortages occur.
The new group will be the world's biggest exporter of coal for power plants, and the largest producer of zinc.
Price discrimination in general, and bundling in particular, is usually a profit-maximising strategy for a producer that enjoys substantial market power, says Mr Economides.
She also controls chemical manufacturer Altana and holds stakes in wind power outfit Nordex AG and carbon and graphite producer SGL and Geohumus, which focuses on developing a water storing granulate to be used in agriculture.
Now General Abubakar has a golden chance to exploit the goodwill that the West is ready to give to a country that it sees, not just as a big oil-producer, but as an international power in an unstable region.
The power balance has shifted not to the producer, or the musician, but to the listener.
This will enable any energy producer, large or small, to sell power to anyone.
In fact, some good may come out of this: a major push for nuclear power a proved, ultraclean, nonemitting energy producer.
In fact, some good may come out of this: a major push for nuclear power--a proved, ultraclean, nonemitting energy producer.
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