Venture capital icon Paul Graham notes that, for all its advantages and power, Silicon Valley has a great weakness.
"This is just one of the major benefits our community will enjoy as a result of our advanced metering technology, " said John Roukema, director of Silicon Valley Power, the community's utility provider.
Consolidation in the wireless industry risks shifting the balance of power away from Silicon Valley toward the much less innovative wireless carriers.
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In contrast to the depletion economics that drive up the cost of fossil fuels over the long run, solar power is a Silicon Valley-style energy resource: the more we make, the more we learn, innovate and lower the cost of the technology.
My vote for villain is Larry Sonsini, the Silicon Valley lawyer and power broker.
Our 2011 list admittedly left off several women shifting the power dynamic here in Silicon Valley.
The creative energy that emanates from the Valley could fuel the power needs of a small country.
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In California the building of desert based solar power plants has caused outbreaks of valley fever among workers, infected by spores that have emerged from the disturbed soil.
Guy Kawasakis Garage.com (disclosure: I sit on its board) uses the Web to hook up technology startups in Minnesota with angel investors in Silicon Valley. n Consumer power will rise up.
The Antelope Valley Solar Projects will sell power to Southern California Edison under long-term power purchase contracts.
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Company A is headquartered in Silicon Valley and develops products which power some of the highest performance parts of the internet.
Scrap metal dealer David George Morris, 39, from Craig Cefn Parc in the Swansea Valley, denies murdering Mandy Power, 34, her mother Doris Dawson, 80, and her daughters Katie, 10 and Emily, eight.
And a May report by the Government Accountability Office found that the Tennessee Valley Authority, which supplies power to almost 9 million people in the southeastern U.S., had not installed sufficient cybersecurity measures.
Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.
The ash is a waste product of the Kingston Fossil Power Plant which is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
User fees are charges for items like postage stamps, Medicare premiums, veterans' life insurance policies and electricity rates for power supplied by federal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority.
In this case, Walmart will buy the electricity it generates under a 15-year power purchase agreement with Foundation Windpower, a Silicon Valley company that installs large turbines for businesses.
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User fees are charges for items like postage stamps, Medicare premiums, veterans' life insurance policies and electricity rates for power supplied by federal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority (nyse: TVC - news - people ).
Areas of the north San Fernando Valley experienced outages as tree branches tangled with power lines in at least two areas, said Michelle Vargas, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
At a recent Wharton San Francisco event with the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley tech and business forum, whether technology will power the next job boom dominated conversation, particularly focusing on the growing gap between the number of college graduates and the number of jobs available.
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Finding new ways to power civilization offers up a box of goodies irresistible to everyone from Silicon Valley investors and engineers hoping for '90s-style payouts, to office-seeking senators looking for visionary solutions, to governors like Ritter, whose political lives depend on hauling home bacon by the ton.
The Tennessee Valley Authority said it is bringing online 1, 200 megawatts of nuclear power, purchasing 27 megawatts of wind power and updating hydro generating facilities.
Today these two firms are one, which gets its wool from Australia and its power from the national grid, and its boss chafes at the restrictions a narrow valley places on floor space in his factory.
Billionaire Silicon Valley tech investor Peter Thiel has funded a Canadian engineer trying to tap the power of tornadoes to generate carbon-free electricity.
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But all that star power has so far been matched by the power of computer geeks who are using what they know best to keep the rhythmically challenged Silicon Valley icon in the game.
Among those utilities in the Southeast that school their workers at the Utility Technology Association: Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power, which are part of Southern Co. as well as Cobb EMC and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Big news that the Tennessee Valley Authority is closing 18 of its oldest and dirtiest boilers at its coal-fired power plants.
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Power restoration took longer after the 2012 Derecho than other severe spring and summer storms affecting the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic regions.
As a contributor to and beneficiary of the Silicon Valley Start-up Common (SVSC), his successes are a testament to its power to create new ventures.
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