A chunk of America's natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is still out of action and, unlike oil or even petroleum, it is hard to make up for a shortfall with imports.
The goal is to have a relatively small staff, with representatives in most, if not every, state, and to make up any shortfall in personnel with the use of technology.
That I was not blown away had more to do with the cooler characteristics of Mr. Muti's artistry, in evidence here, than with any shortfall in the playing.
The plant has been promised £92 per megawatt hour (MWh) for 35 years, double today's average wholesale electricity price, with any shortfall being paid by consumers via household energy bills.
Another is to add adjuvants, which are catalysts that improve the efficacy of a vaccine and reduce the amount of active ingredient required.A number of companies have been hoping to get such technologies to the market by 2011 or 2012, and some might be able to help with any shortfall should there be a pandemic later this year.
It also asked tourism agency VisitScotland to provide annual updates on whether the 50% target will actually be met, as well as a plan to deal with any shortfall.
A spokesman for Mr. Giddens said in a statement after the hearing, "The full amount of any shortfall will not be known with certainty until the claims process is completed".
This, it said, presented a short-term challenge, with the possibility of a temporary supply crunch in 2015, but with sufficient investment any shortfall could be covered.
To help bridge the gap, regulators decided to allow banks to offset capital shortfall with any locked-in gains from asset sales as well as profits that were better than the government projected for the first quarter, people briefed on the talks said.
So it is trying to push weak banks into the arms of stronger ones and fill any capital shortfalls with guarantees from an underfunded deposit insurance program rather than with real cash.
