No matter what the platform, function and utility, more than pretty and slick, is what works for consumers.
If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility?
That's what he sees the utility and the use of those statements for.
When Jeff Bezos launched the service in 2002, there were other more-established players in what was then called utility computing.
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The utility now knows what is happening in its network and power cuts have become rare.
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And what we like about this utility is that it is entertaining as well as practical.
The new modeling product provides obvious benefits to the utility, but what does the customer get?
The big opportunity is creating a public utility to do what Pepco has proven unable to do.
It wants to become what amounts to a public utility.
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In new public offerings, Silver Spring Networks, which operates a hardware and software network designed to help utility companies create what is known as a "smart grid, " surged on its listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Silver Spring operates a hardware and software network designed to help utility companies create what is known as a "smart grid, " or a responsive electrical infrastructure that can provide data on usage to help lower costs and maximize efficiency.
But they were loved for what they had once represented: utility, economy and simplicity, as well as light.
The utility commission may wonder what "other breaches of trust are lurking in this transaction, " adds Scott Hempling, an independent utilities lawyer.
The corporation then signs a long-term contract to buy the solar electric power from the third party at rates that are almost always less than what it would pay its traditional utility.
In an analogous sense, when millions of people are generating their own green electricity and sending some of it back to an energy Internet, the question facing power and utility companies is: What is the expertise they have that will allow them to stay in business?
One could not attain extra utility, so why adjust what was already the best portfolio composition?
What is the difference between an electric utility and a troop of Boy Scouts in the woods?
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This was a good opportunity for me to talk to various utility execs and find out what was on their minds.
What is the difference between an investor-owned utility and a boy scout?
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Utility planners expect the company to do what it has always done, and ask regulators and customers to fund doing what they always did.
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He seeded what became a very substantial stock portfolio by paying utility bills in person during his lunch hour in order to invest the money he saved on stamps.
But when rounding the bases, he runs more like a light-hitting utility player who can't quite believe what he just did.
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Only then did we look at the supply-side options, evaluating utility programs, potential state support, and what would work best with our building design.
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Being an on-site power system allows users to run independently of the public utility grid, ensuring that, no matter what happens to the grid, a company will not lose power and will continue to operate.
Utility executives made commitments in the late 1990s to what was supposed to be cheap natural gas, only to see prices spike as supplies tightened, contributing to the California power crisis and sending some companies into bankruptcy.
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It took Schaeffer only five months to analyze the setup and write code that would let him, from his laptop, tell the Scada system to open and close enough breakers to bring down the mock utility--without letting the legitimate operator see what was going on.
Dan Gillmor has a nice column outlining what Facebook would like to do: become a monopoly or standard utility.
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But its most fascinating character is Samuel Insull, the British-born, longtime assistant to Edison, who went on to found what was once the nation's largest investor-owned public utility, Commonwealth Edison, and became immensely wealthy.
But it is only a limited snapshot of what is really going on out there beyond the borders of the utility kingdom, where the horde of innovators continue to develop more technologies and where the nature of innovation itself is changing.
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"What (the 'Lonelygirl15' team) have done is unlocked a utility of connecting with people, " says Shields.
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