就连长期以来将电池和替代能源视为威胁的公用事业公司，也开始学着接受这种技术，认为它们是有利的，而不是破坏性的。
Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.
这年年初，欧洲工业的内部人士就指出将会有一系列的并购在欧洲各公用事业企业之间展开，但几乎没有人预计到了在二月的两起在欧洲企业间的最大并购案：一起是E.ON德国的一家大型能源企业，发出标书，收购西班牙电力企业Endesa。
Energy-industry insiders predicted a series of mergers and acquisitions in European utilities at the beginning of this year.
用户所代表的行业类型是否广泛，如零售、能源和公用事业、金融市场、医疗保健、或者石油化工。
And whether the type of industry the consumer represents is broad, such as retail, energy and utilities, financial markets, health care, or chemical and petroleum.
另外，这项法案还要求大型公用事业增加对可循环能源的使用，比如水力、风力、太阳能和地热。
Additionally, the bill requires large utilities to increase their use of renewable energies such as hydro, wind, solar and geothermal power generation.
支持者担心如果原油和天然气价格持续下跌，公用事业和消费者购买昂贵的可再生能源的刺激因素将会收缩。
Advocates are concerned that if the prices for oil and gas keep falling, the incentive for utilities and consumers to buy expensive renewable energy will shrink.
“智能电网”，它传播与公用事业能源使用有关的信息，作为减少能源损耗的方法正在被推广。
“Smart” grids”, which relay information about energy use to the utilities, are promoted as ways of reducing energy waste.
项目由美国能源部下属的建筑行业研究联盟、几所大学及公用事业公司资助。
The project is funded by the DOE's Building Industry Research Alliance, as well as several universities and utility companies.
即使国会没有制定有关气候变化方面的法规，超过一半的州已采取措施要求公用事业部门更多地使用可再生能源。
Even though Congress failed to enact climate legislation, more than half the states have adopted measures requiring utilities to use more renewable energy.
公用事业：和能源行业一样，完全可以认为人们不会停止使用室内照明。
Utilities: Just like the energy sector, it's safe to assume that people are not going to stop lighting their homes.
首先，制定全国性的收购费率，或者可展期资产标准- - - - -两种途径都要求公用事业公司购买最低额度的清洁能源，或者必须以固定的价格购买。
First, institute national feed-in tariffs or a renewable portfolio standard - two ways to require that utilities buy clean energy in a minimum amount or at a certain price.
大多数的公用事业公司都尽可能地销售能源，而不管其是清洁的或是污染严重的。
Most utilities have an incentive to sell as much power as they can, dirty or clean.
这比友好的交易是欧洲各大公用事业企业之间，在明年违反常规的能源市场到来之前，为巩固其地位所做的最近一次努力。
The friendly deal is the latest effort among big European utilities to consolidate ahead of next year's deregulation of energy markets.
不情愿的公用事业单位不得不提供额外的资金开发可再生能源。
Reluctant utilities may have to come up with extra money for renewables.
公用事业似乎首当其冲，特别是许多使用煤电作为能源的地区。
Utilities are likely to be the most affected, especially in those regions that derive much of their power from coal-fired plants.
去年，一份剑桥能源研究组织的调查显示，4/5的公用事业管理人员期待未来10内推出强行限制排放措施。
Last year four-fifths of utility executives polled by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy, expected mandatory emissions caps within a decade.
使用沼气可以使这些公用事业达到加州和其他许多州的要求，即在接下来的10年里，其所使用的电力中有一定比例来自可再生能源。
Using biogas would help the utilities meet requirements in California and many other states to generate a portion of their power using renewable energy within the coming decade.
在水利和能源部门同样也有上市的公用事业提供资金，他们所寻求的那种安全的股利支付者。
There are also listed utilities in the water and energy sectors that offer funds the kind of secure dividend-payers they seek.
公用事业单位现在面临着更严格的检查与能源供给，而且他们也不太可能提高价格（作为地区垄断公司，他们的价格与利润是由政策制定者们制定的。）
The utilities now face more scrutiny and tighter energy supplies. They are also unlikely to win permission to raise rates.
毕尔巴鄂市地铁是由毕尔巴鄂的公用事业公司天然气公司（Naturgas）提供可再生能源动力的。
The subway was provided the renewable energy by local utility Naturgas.
它的测试制度，在马萨诸塞州的公用事业员工与客户沟通，可以就如何刮胡子能源基础上的数据与一些公用设施。
It's testing the system with a few utilities in Massachusetts where utility employees can communicate with customers on how to shave energy based on their data.
随便举个例子，作为一家公用事业公司，你是否有化石燃料替代能源的正确组合？
As a utility, for example, just to throw one out there, do you have the right mix of alternative energy versus fossil fuels?
全美50个州中至少有21个有这样的“可再生能源发电配额制”，它要求各地公用事业部门要在规定期限达到标准。
No fewer than 21 of America's 50 states have such "renewable portfolio standards", which local utilities are obliged to meet within a set period.
但这将是留给单个能源公司和市政公用事业选择各自的清洁能源。
But it would be left up to the individual energy companies and municipal utilities to choose their respective sources of clean energy.
如果一个产品有能源之星标贴，这意味着它要挽救你对你的现金公用事业法案。
If a product has an energy star sticker, it means it is going to save you cash on your utility bill.
事实是：加利福尼亚州针对汽车、建筑和电力公用事业的部分清洁能源标准是全美最高的。
Fact: California has some of the highest clean energy standards for cars, buildings and electric utilities in America.
事实是：加利福尼亚州针对汽车、建筑和电力公用事业的部分清洁能源标准是全美最高的。
Fact: California has some of the highest clean energy standards for cars, buildings and electric utilities in America.
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