Vance Scott of A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, expects a wave of consolidations among utilities.Yet Mr Rogers adds a key motivation: both he and Paul Anderson, Duke's boss, believe that government policies "will inevitably lead to a carbon-constrained world".
1986 NISSAN PATHFINDER -- This two-door was among the first of a wave of sleeker, more carlike sport utilities.
Indeed, the scope to borrow could be used to fund a wave of new investment in our utilities.
"In the last wave of utility mergers, it was more offensive - companies were seeking growth," he said.
The first wave of utility computing customers, Carr says, will be small companies trying to avoid big IT investments, whose computing needs can be easily served by smaller firms.
Despite the limitations of this study, the findings illustrate the potential value of considering qualitative information in the interpretation of cost utility estimates and the need to include more qualitative research in the design of not only the next wave of utility instruments, but also in the further development of existing instruments such as the EQ-5D.
The utilities sector experienced a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2010, reflecting the desire of some utility owners to sell out of a sector mired in weak demand and pricing.
It's part of a wave of new social networking tools trying to combine utility and networking.
If they get their way, expect a wave of privatizations targeting public services and goods like roads, ports, airports, utilities, the post office, and more.
These plants were due for retirement this decade anyway; the utilities planned to replace them with a wave of new coal generation, plans that collapsed from 2005 to 2010, when the economic lunacy of coal investments became clear.
