These events point to a horrible planning weakness by most electric utility industry participants.
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There is a better approach: true deregulation of the electric utility industry--generation, transmission and distribution.
If you look at the track record of the electric utility industry, we are doing that in real time.
Implementation of this standard and the supporting hardware built to the standard have attracted significant attention in the electric utility industry.
Although I am not currently involved in any clean coal projects, I have spent a fair amount of my time in the electric utility industry.
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The model begins with an input-output table, which says that, for example, the steel mill industry uses the output of the iron ore industry, the electric utility industry, as well as labor and some lesser inputs.
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The historically low levels of investment in research and development in the electric utility industry combined with an anemic history of adopting new technologies has convinced many people that the utility industry is constitutionally incapable of innovation.
The challenges of gathering highly-granular intelligence about areas controlled by hostile groups or governments make data collection in the electric-utility industry seem like a piece of cake.
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"Every utility is regulated mostly by its state, " says Ed Legge, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, the Washington lobbying group that represents the utility industry.
But the electric industry has only three years to comply under one EPA regulation known as the utility rule that is meant to target mercury and is due to be finalized soon, while many other destructive rules are in the works.
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