Because the U.S. utility sector is so capital intensive, it must maintain investment-grade credit ratings.
FORBES: Energy Infrastructure: Critical to Economic Momentum
Like other U.S. utility executives, Nye felt compelled to invest his company's cash in higher-growth markets overseas.
U.S. utility stocks have risen a long way, and Eaton Vance's Ms. Saryan says you may find better opportunities across the Atlantic.
When it seemed that every U.S. utility was trying to get into the swinging British electricity business four years ago, Texas Utilities was nowhere to be seen.
Since late 1997, he has acquired large stakes in two of Germany's so-called superregional utilities, HEW in the Hamburg area and Berlin-based BEWAG (in which Veba is partners with the well-run U.S. utility Southern Companies).
The rankings reflect the number of U.S. utility-patents, which are the most common type of patents awarded for protecting intellectual property and technological innovation, received by companies around the world in 2010 based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
FORBES: U.S. Reclaims Top Spot in Global Innovation Rankings
The average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer is about 11, 000 kilowatt-hours.
This is Google first investment in the U.S. in utility scale solar photovoltaics.
FORBES: Solar Investments: Google, KKR Invest in Project; TransCanada to Buy 9 Ontario Sites
"I talked to the CEO of just about every electric utility in the U.S." says Anderson, now the CEO of BHP Billiton in Melbourne, Australia.
"I talked to the CEO of just about every electric utility in the U.S." recalls Anderson, now chief executive of Melbourne, Australia-based BHP Billiton Group.
The Greenies were yelling about outlawing sport utility vehicles, U.S. Congressmen were demanding 17 kilometers per liter, and everyone thought that those hybrid vehicles from Japan were the future.
Aqua America, the second largest publicly traded water utility in the U.S., serves about three million people in nine states, including Pennsylvania (which accounts for 55% of earnings), Ohio, Texas, and New Jersey.
FORBES: Two Low-Risk Stocks That Are Also Mighty Market Achievers
It could be another natural-gas pipeline or an electric utility, in the U.S. or outside.
The disposition of water utility assets in the U.S. is absolutely not an indication that this is a bad business that should be avoided by investors.
Southern Company ( SO - news - people ) as the largest utility company in the U.S. (See If the Recovery Fizzles, Seek Safety in Utilities).
Windmills are unpopular with some U.S. politicians and utility executives because they require ample subsidies to be viable, and the unpredictable wind means utilities must maintain additional power plants on standby.
The new company will have a generating capacity of about 57, 000 megawatts, outstripping Southern Company as the largest utility company in the U.S. (See If the Recovery Fizzles, Seek Safety in Utilities).
Still, the Exxon Mobil chief, who is regarded as one of the most frank and open oil executives, was hopeful that natural gas would be widely used by utility plants in the U.S. to create power for the coming revolution in electric cars.
FORBES: Natural Gas Equals Energy Independence And Economic Rejuvenation
Nissan says a bigger shift is on the horizon: it plans to move production of its two popular sport-utility vehicles to the U.S. The small Rogue crossover is scheduled to make the move this year, while the next generation of the Murano luxury SUV will follow when production is expected to begin in 2014.
But many of the 3 million customers of this solid New England outfit might be surprised to know that this utility is a subsidiary of U.K.-based National Grid Transco.
This is the largest publicly traded regulated water and wastewater utility holding company in the U.S., catering to approximately 15 million residents across the country and parts of Canada.
This is significant, according to the foundation, as 40 percent of pedestrians that were killed or injured were struck by a pickup truck, van, or S.U.V. (sport utility vehicle) in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available.
The utility sector relies heavily on the U.S. Department of Energy to help it buy down some of the risks.
Because PV is easier to finance than concentrating solar thermal, a few utility-scale projects in the southwest U.S. have shifted over to PV.
In Connecticut, where utility rates are the highest in the U.S. after Hawaii, residents who once adored living in an urban forest are getting increasingly frustrated by massive power failures that many fear could become a chronic problem.
WSJ: If a Tree Falls, Will the Lights Go Out? Maybe in Connecticut
First, Toyota is busy building ever-bigger, higher-profit, gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks in the U.S. Trucks will help Toyota's profit margins today, while fuel cells in particular could take decades to roll down the road, if they ever become a commercial success.
The U.S. Department of Energy also was assisting utility companies in getting power restored, he said.
WSJ: Sandy Cleanup Puts Spotlight on FEMA a Week Before Election
Unseasonably warm weather during the winter in the U.S. curtailed demand for thermal coal by utility companies.
FORBES: Alpha Natural Worth $20 On Exports And Revival Of U.S. Demand
U.S. automakers built high-profit sport utility vehicles, but the market for SUVs declined when gas prices spiked.
应用推荐