City Manager Troy Schulte said it appeared an accident by a utility contractor had caused the blast, and a statement from utility Missouri Gas Energy late Tuesday reiterated that possibility, but Berardi and others cautioned that the cause was still being investigated.
This was a big deal, because Sempra, the nation's largest gas utility, was building a fleet of gas-fired power plants.
"Early indications are that a contractor doing underground work struck a natural gas line, but the investigation continues, " according to the utility, Missouri Gas Energy.
Ballard is also developing a power unit with Tokyo Gas, a utility that supplies Japanese homes with natural gas.
If he could combine his utility with a gas company, a new world of trading opportunities would open up.
The state's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, filed for bankruptcy in April.
Several years ago it acquired Teresen, a natural gas utility in British Columbia which has proved to be highly profitable.
But that is just America: although historically it has represented 15-50% of world demand for utility-sized gas turbines, the growth of emerging economies means that it is now just 8%, reckons Bernstein.
Instead of developing those fields in the northern state of Coahuila, Pemex will instead focus on oil output, and the Mexican state power utility will import more gas.
This Canadian utility company supplies natural gas and electricity to customers in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. It reorganized several years back, but earnings continued to grow.
We have a lot of people on fixed incomes, particularly our seniors, low-income people that are having a really tough time with the increase in gas and utility prices.
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When operational, the facility -- which is owned by that utility, San Diego Gas and Electric and the city of Riverside -- supplies power for 1.4 million households at any given time.
While many clean technology leaders come from the male-dominated oil and gas and utility industries, research suggests that women are more likely to be drawn to cleantech because it serves a higher purpose of creating a sustainable environment for this generation and beyond.
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For example, M2M-enabled smart utility meters are currently collecting information on electric, water, or gas consumption and sending it to utility companies.
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Watts, a former public utility commissioner and oil and gas commissioner in energy-rich Oklahoma, joins Sen.
Berardi said the utility stopped the flow of gas about 8 p.m.
Take Consolidated Edison of New York, a New York-based corporation that provides electric, gas and steam utility services in New York City and Westchester County.
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Granted, the energy sector is highly diverse--utility companies, oil and natural gas businesses and ethanol producers are distant cousins at best.
Those who work in retail stores or restaurants, reporters and others in the media industry, gas station attendants, utility workers, hotel and airport personnel, public transportation workers, and business owners, among many other professionals, could also be on the clock tomorrow.
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.
It could be another natural-gas pipeline or an electric utility, in the U.S. or outside.
As it fell, the utility would need to switch to more gas and retire coal.
By 8 p.m. utility workers turned off the flow of gas, Berardi said.
The 1991 Ford Explorer reminds us of the days, not so long ago, when gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles ruled the American road.
At the tail end of the global economic boom, when concerns about the environment were widely voiced, large "gas-guzzling" sports utility vehicles (SUVs) became objects of loathing and ridicule.
The gas-and-electric utility also backed its full-year earnings estimate.
And since fiber-optic cables are typically run right along with utility pipes--neither phone nor gas companies want to have their lines cut--it's easy to connect a fiber backbone to the gas pipes at the neighborhood level, and beam a signal the final few feet to each home.
In Q4, gas prices rose by around 10% due to winter demand and rising demand from electric utility companies, which have been transitioning capacity away from coal towards natural gas.
Utility networks, such as for electricity, gas, water, and sewage, work the same way.
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