When it is at last unveiled, many suspect it will be used primarily as a vehicle to impose various environmental obligations on utilities, rather than as a way of introducing competition quickly.

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This coalition also includes unions, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, whose members' jobs might disappear, and various other sorts of utilities such as the rural co-operatives (see article) and municipal power companies, anxious lest deregulation lead to the unravelling of the tax-breaks and subsidies they now receive.

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The acquisition, which also includes various commercial and residential properties and utilities, may have made him Lana'i's potential savior.

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"Other software packages in this space, like Orb and Single-Click, are focused on streaming digital content to various devices on the network, or are utilities that only attempt to deal with one kind of hardware device, " he said.

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