Are RTOs and ISOs thrown in with corporations like GE and UTC, for example?

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The key to fair competition, the organization notes, is regional transmission organizations, or RTOs.

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RTOs, meantime, cost hundreds of millions a year to operate and to administer.

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RTOs are one mechanism by which to achieve that goal while enforcing existing laws that ensure grid access is another.

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The University of Delaware is selling licenses to its proprietary aggregator technology to companies to interface between individuals and RTOs or ISOs.

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When was the last time you heard QNX Neutrino RTOS getting hacked or when was the last time you heard QNX Neutrino RTOS having malware?

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Although there are at least a dozen other similar small RTOs with clouds hanging over them and who might be delisted in the future, most in China have never heard of these companies.

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The QNX Neutrino RTOS is used by the world's best-known automotive brands to bring high levels of performance, reliability, and upgradeability to hands-free systems, digital instrument clusters, multimedia head units, connectivity modules, 3D navigation systems, and other in-car infotainment products.

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We like to assume that all will be well if only we could put a stop to RTOs, securitizations, derivatives, junk bonds, LBOs, hedge funds, leveraged EFTs (not really an ethical thing, but something that has been similarly demonized), sell-side analysts, and as anything else that comes our way in the future.

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