SpaceX from Southern California, successfully launched and recovered the first private supply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) in May of this year.
"We are dealing with an unprecedented level of bursts not only on our system but also on the private supply side - on customers' own pipes, " he said.
In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel show that there is, indeed, a spillover effect to the private sector.
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All these steps were aimed at reducing credit spreads on private loans and increasing the supply of private credit, currently constrained by fear of counterparty default, illiquidity and banks' depleted capital.
In other words, if businesses and households want clean energy, private firms will supply it.
India's first power generation company was the private Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) started in 1899.
When Ressano Garcia opened, Aggreko was thought to have been the first private firm to supply power cross-border to utilities in southern Africa.
Even in primitive northwestern Europe, where Rome stationed its army at frontier posts like Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, cash salaries and pension payments, plus the use of private businesses to supply food, arms and other necessities, ensured a city-centered, money-based market economy.
This entirely avoidable calamity was caused by a distracting debate about the role of the private sector in electricity supply.
The serious money goes to an entourage of private contractors, who supply everything from earth-moving equipment and helicopters to portable showers.
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Meanwhile, the supply of private schools has expanded to fill the demand.
And as we covered in our recent report on the state of private equity, two supply-side factors also could drive deal activity in the months ahead.
In most of France, for instance, private franchise-holders supply the water but local authorities maintain the pipes a solution which, if applied to Britain's railways, would have the government owning carriages and engines but not running trains.
REITs and their private counterparts, as the supply of new property is failing to keep up with investment demand.
Please understand, we do not see a threefold increase in the money supply via the private banking system, here and now.
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The austereian argument is that reductions in government spending will allow the private sector to generate the additional supply of goods and services.
Recent measures such as loosening reserve requirements for banks on short U.S. dollar positions are meant to induce private sector banks into increasing the supply of dollars.
D, subsidises the supply of prescription drugs by private insurers.
Raising taxes to a level that would make them comfortable in poverty would decrease the the supply of jobs in the private sector and only prolong their time in poverty.
When it comes to clean water, there are unique and powerful market forces at play that inevitably will drive continued private investment in ways to create the supply necessary to meet the acute and growing demand.
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The demand for new shares is easily matched by supply: venture capitalists and private-equity firms are sitting on a hoard of investments made in the previous wave of optimism that they have been waiting for years to unload.
Private doctors complained of a breakdown in the supply of the JE vaccine, the monopoly of a local trading company.
At that point private-sector economists reached for their remaining supply of credulity and found, unsurprisingly, that it had run out.
The study includes an annual electronic survey and live interviews with supply chain executives from both the private and public sectors.
This dismal scenario would have had wreaked carnage on private sector activity and also the longer term supply performance of the overall economy.
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In theory, if private demand for new euro assets matched the supply from governments and firms that will borrow in euros, there might be no effect at all.
Councillors in Leeds and neighbouring Kirklees warned they had less than two days' supply of salt left, while private salt firm Grittit has brought in security guards after 75 tonnes of material was taken from its depots nationwide.
Some of the other key U.S. economic indicators next week include personal income and spending Monday, Chicago Purchasing Managers Index and consumer confidence on Tuesday, ADP private-sector employment report and Institute for Supply Management manufacturing PMI Wednesday, and initial jobless claims Thursday.
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Private companies can experiment with integrating sustainability into their supply chains and production processes.
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