We believe that this one big reasons why Indian state energy firms are keen on this resource.
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And while it provides a relatively good snapshot of state energy efficiency measures, it has a few drawbacks.
Besides driving away the multinationals, these deprived the region's state energy firms of revenues they needed to invest in exploration.
Private oligopolies and state energy monopolies still survive in Mexico, for example.
But the gas is piped in from Bolivia, where President Evo Morales has recently threatened Brazilian interests by nationalising facilities owned by Brazil's state energy firm, Petrobras.
Among the people required to attend Disaster Preparedness Commission meetings but didn't was Francis Murray, president of the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority, according to state records.
In the past couple of years Chinese state energy firms have struck multi-billion-dollar shale deals in America with Chesapeake Energy, mainly for shale oil, and with Devon Energy Corp for gas.
It has directed national governments, notably in Spain and France, not to protect former state energy monopolies--now private and meant to stand as "national champions"--when they are the target of foreign bids.
Signaling less confidence among foreign firms, Algeria has recently faced a steady decline in interest among international partners, thanks in part to unfavorable revenue-sharing agreements and accusations of rampant corruption in state energy offices.
Mr. Maduro reconfirmed several ministers in their posts including Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, who also heads state energy monopoly Petroleos de Venezuela SA, Defense Minister Diego Molero, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua and Vice President Jorge Arreaza.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is funding a program that gives businesses subsidies to pay for TomTom devices that the company says will improve productivity and reduce fuel consumption.
But in 2008, having judged that the ultimate power in Russia lay with state energy companies, BP went behind the backs of its private Russian partners to negotiate a deal with Gazprom, the state-controlled gas behemoth.
In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company in exchange for a predetermined service fee.
Head of state energy firm replaced.
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Alberto Quimper, who is a board member of the state energy agency, PeruPetro, and who has responsibilities for overall regulation and licensing of the oil and gas industries as well as negotiating contracts with private companies for exploration and production was fired.
Since taking office two years ago Mr Ritter has signed legislation requiring 20% of state energy to be produced from renewable sources by 2020, and has formed a research partnership between Colorado's universities and the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, west of Denver.
Energy Minister Greg Barker told him: "We firmly believe that the right decision-maker for major strategic energy infrastructure in England and Wales is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change".
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
The state passed energy storage procurement targets (AB 2514) last year, the first to do so.
In New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie declared a limited state of energy emergency from noon on Saturday in 12 northern counties.
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said the development would "give confidence to our domestic manufacturing supply chain".
Critics of the mega-project within Russia such as Sergei Grigoryev, vice-president of state controlled energy conglomerate Transneft, have been skeptical of the plan.
Plans for 22 turbines at Heckington Fen near Sleaford have been approved by the Secretary of State for Energy, four years after the project was proposed.
In most states, solar installations are driven by state renewable energy incentives that can be added to the federal 30% subsidy known as the investment tax credit.
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Speaking on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, William Powell AM acknowledged the central role played by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in negotiating the UN agreement.
Pundits have been predicting that the North Sea would run out of oil ever since Tony Benn, the then secretary of state for energy, turned on the tap in 1975.
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The Northern Lights happen when incoming solar radiation hits the earth's upper atmosphere and excites atoms to a new energy state, emitting colours which is energy in the form of light.
Among the more than sixty participants in this half-day symposium were representatives of the Departments of Defense, State and Energy, diplomats, industry experts, senior congressional staff and members of the press.
Yukos Oil has been broken up and sold to Russian state owned energy companies, with the bulk of those assets acquired at a discount by Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia.
The proliferation of city and state building energy efficiency codes, combined with the eagerness of building owners to seek LEED ratings, tells me that policymakers and the market are increasingly demanding energy efficiency in new construction.
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