There continues to be rapid growth of white-box or utility and basic tablets as well, given the low costs of production attained using components from Chinese chip producers Allwinner and Rockchip.

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Municipal utility companies plan to boost their share of electricity production from a tenth to at least a fifth by 2020.

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In contrast, Porsche is in line for a bumper year, after the German luxury-car maker sold its entire annual 25, 000 production run of its new sport-utility vehicle before they were released to dealers.

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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.

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Nearly all of the country's electricity production comes from state-owned utility Eskom Holdings Ltd.

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It tried to force utilities to increase production of renewable energy in the face of fierce opposition by the utility industry group, and it included a tax package that the White House has long indicated it would not support.

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In the future, power and utility companies will set up partnerships with thousands of businesses to help manage their energy flows in their production processes, supply chains, and logistics networks.

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