The order is linked to allegations of corruption in bidding on private power stations.
And now courts have begun to cancel agreements with private power companies accused of corruption by the government.
As with any public or private power, TIA's capabilities could have been abused -- which is why the Pentagon research team planned to build in powerful safeguards to protect individual privacy.
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And the shift has occurred from public power to private power, from political power to economic power, from hard power to soft power, with the end of the Cold War as the turning point.
But according to Lester Thurow, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the keynote speaker at the National Rural Electric Co-operative Association's annual meeting in Las Vegas, their competitive advantage over private power companies has probably gone.
WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.
Limited private investment in power generation itself has been allowed for seven years already.
Private-sector power plant firms are being squeezed by fuel shortages and by end-customers that are often financial zombies.
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Indeed, an interesting question now after all the focus on Facebook, is what current private companies will power the future top of the Midas List.
One doesn't want to give too much monopoly power to private suppliers of water, so that they can then use that power to lobby government for special favours.
Nigeria could funnel its oil revenues into a more efficient financial system that could provide capital to the private sector to build roads and power stations and expand private enterprises, such as farming.
Mr McCain favours some subsidies, but places more emphasis on private investment and nuclear power.
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Most likely it is because government intervention is crowding out and undermining pricing power of private lenders.
The rise of private equity and the spread of private markets are returning power to a club of privileged investors.
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The rebalancing trick is to get a big share of this buying power into private hands, who will then consume inside China.
When Ressano Garcia opened, Aggreko was thought to have been the first private firm to supply power cross-border to utilities in southern Africa.
It now buys 48% of its power from private suppliers, at about 6.5 cents a kilowatt-hour - some 20% more than what Meralco pays its IPPs.
The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit, public-interest-group law firm, recently released a report, "Public Power, Private Gain, " that documents how extensive the abuse of condemnation powers has become.
France agreed to a partial opening of its energy market that will by 2004 let French businesses, but not domestic consumers, buy their power from private competitors to state-owned Electricite de France.
In general, investors are not placing a great deal of value in the distribution power of private equity firms and remain uneasy about the lumpy nature of their earnings, which are driven by episodic performance fees more than steady management fees.
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The Profit Motive in Education provides a unique glimpse into the potentially transformative power of private sector involvement in education, providing the reader with persuasive evidence supporting the claim that the profit motive can be harnessed to meet the needs of future generations that are not currently being met by the static education models of the past.
Big mistake No. 1: Under the 1996 deregulation measure, investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric were required to sell most of their power generating plants to other private companies, and to become buyers of wholesale electric power.
The electricity overhaul, which began in 1991, opened up power generation to private companies.
States and cities, on the other hand, have something that no private company possesses: the power to tax.
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The combination of tight supply, dodgy municipal distribution and regulatory uncertainty should power sales of private generators for some time.
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The right not only detests the result but fears an unprecedented new Federal power to regulate private conduct through the tax code.
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The Obama administration has opened millions of acres of public land to be used by private companies for giant solar power farms.
Now imagine hospitals loading up with enough server power to make google nervous, more power that the private SoCal utility can handle.
The power to take private property for the common good, typically for things like roads, schools and bridges, dates back to biblical times.
The unions fear that greater private provision will erode their power.
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