The stodgy electric power industry is in need of a lot of shaking up.
Reliability is a critical consideration at all times in the electric power industry.
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And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
The so-called Kerry-Lieberman-Graham energy bill, which would restrict carbon emissions for the electric power industry, has recently been raised from the dead.
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"Many people who went to work in the electric power industry were there for 25, 30, 40 years, " instructor Rulon Crawford says.
Its electric power industry emits less greenhouse gas than any other state.
Yet these two large software companies did not have many users in the electric power industry, especially any focused on power generation and grid management.
What is the general feeling among the electric power industry?
Oh, and did I mention the electric power industry?
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Over the past decade, the U.S. electric power industry has reduced carbon emissions, reigned in demand growth and diversified the portfolio of energy resources used to generate electricity provided by the power grid.
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They are drawing a corollary between the banking crisis that swept the nation into deep recession and the electric power industry one that simply concludes that, unless tightly monitored, big power companies would serve their own interests.
As supplies grew and the price of natural gas plummeted, the ground shifted under the electric-power industry.
Allan Manne of Stanford University and Richard Richels, who works at the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded policy research group based in Palo Alto, California, have been studying this idea.
Electric-power generation, transportation, industry, agriculture, and residential sectors all emitted less greenhouse gas in 2009 than in 2008.
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"The fundamentals of this new reality must be more carefully assessed and understood by government, industry and especially the electric power sector, " said Ron Mahan, chairman of Global Energy.
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The DOE said presently less than 10 percent of power electronics is involved in the electric industry, from the generator to the use of the electricity.
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Bad news for the electric power grid is usually good news for the fuel-cell industry.
Thanks to a series of severe storms that clobbered electric-power grids in New York and Connecticut recently, the fuel-cell industry appears poised for a modest to massive growth spurt.
Bob Gibson, VP for market intelligence at the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), pointed to one large source of growth for the industry: utilities expanding their energy mix to include solar.
The same month he championed a successful bid by a chaebol-heavy consortium under the aegis of the Korean Electric Power Company to provide nuclear power to Abu Dhabi, pulling the rug from under industry leaders in France and Japan.
Wetstone is referring to the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the powerful industry group that represents investor-owned utilities like Southern Company and American Electric Power--both of which are against the standard for renewables.
Wetstone is referring to the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the powerful industry group that represents investor-owned utilities like Southern Company and American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people )--both of which are against the standard for renewables.
Electric utilities, led by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the industry group, and Southern Company, say this will dramatically raise power rates throughout the country.
Driving those market valuations is the expectation of more growth ahead: Analysts both in industry and in the government anticipate that solar will be the fastest-growing alternative source of electric power over the next 25 years.
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