The government's continued role in the power sector illustrates that India's liberalization has been only partial.
India remains perennially energy starved despite 15% or more of federal funds being allocated to the power sector.
Under any realistic scenario, Israel possesses ample supplies to ensure energy security in the power sector for a generation.
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Moreover, industry "does not have the power sector's flexibility to respond to changes in carbon price by reducing their emissions".
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The low per capita consumption is despite the fact that the power sector has been growing at more than 7% every year.
Basically, under such a regime, government would tax utilities according to their carbon footprints that can be readily measured in the power sector.
Unlike the power sector, the steel industry is fragmented and tougher to control, particularly with local governments relying on smaller, and often dirtier, mills.
Mr. Singh is planning a range of measures to jump-start growth, including encouraging state-run firms to make major infrastructure investments and streamlining regulations in the power sector.
Besides the aim to liberalize the power sector, Manila is also under financial pressure to dispose of the NPC - and reduce the burden of covering its deficit.
Mr. Chatterji asked the company to step up investments that may be planned for future years and to look into expansion in other industries such as roads, railways, waterways and the power sector.
One obvious way for firms in the power sector to reduce their emissions is to switch the type of energy they use, for example from inefficient coal-fired power stations to efficient gas stations.
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The power sector needs serious attention.
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She said 2010 had also been a "tremendous year" for the renewable power sector, with more wind power developments in the planning and construction pipeline.
One reason the wind power sector has grown so rapidly in Texas is that the state's oil industry has decades of experience building big projects like wind farms.
However, in 2009, the carbon intensity of the electric power sector decreased by nearly 4.3 percent, primarily due to fuel switching as the price of coal rose 6.8 percent from 2008 to 2009 while the comparable price of natural gas fell 48 percent on a per Btu basis.
In this case, I looked at the MMD A Electric Power as a benchmark, since there is no MMD for BBB-rated bonds in the electric power sector.
Then there were the international worries about nuclear plant safety that pulled down the entire power sector.
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"The fundamentals of this new reality must be more carefully assessed and understood by government, industry and especially the electric power sector, " said Ron Mahan, chairman of Global Energy.
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Indeed, a Bloomberg report released in January showed that US carbon emissions last year dropped dramatically, to 1994 levels, largely as a result of fuel switching in the power generation sector from coal to natural gas.
This huge abundance of natural gas is a blessing for Texas in the power generation sector, as electric providers look for alternatives as increasingly strict EPA air quality regulations make it more and more difficult to generate electricity by burning coal.
The folly of this switch by a group of activists who regularly claim their efforts are justified to fight global climate change is made obvious by the revelation late last year that US carbon emissions have plummeted to 1992 levels, largely as a result of widespread switching from coal to natural gas in the power generation sector.
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With the prospect of such levels of investments flowing into the UK's energy sector, it seems clear that the nuclear industry will have to compete with the oil and gas industry, with the wind power sector and with renewable fuels companies, not just to attract electricity customers, but also to attract skilled staff such as engineers and scientists.
With its sales in the atomic-power sector falling by a third since the Fukushima accident, India "would be a major focus of business if regulatory clearance is given by the government, " a spokesman said.
At the same time however, huge amounts of electricity are now needed to power the ICT sector itself.
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It comes straight out of the school of public-choice economics, which says that the public sector seeks power in the same way that private companies do.
At stake are the power of public-sector unions and the future of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
To Kinney, who believes that the Army's research, development and testing are superior, the study reflects the power of marketing in the private sector.
The utility-funded Center for Energy Development has estimated that a third of the existing 200, 000 power sector jobs could be open over the next 5-to-10 years.
Demand for natural gas is set to rise in the U.S. as power plants and the industrial sector increase their consumption of the fuel.
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