Through such arrangements, industry executives say, customers can lower their power bills, escape the uncertainty of fluctuating energy costs, and avoid the complex bureaucracy of federal and local credits, rebates, grants and tax breaks.
The Arrangement The industry casts itself as a victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by the giant banks that dominate the credit card trade and aim to hang on to the spoils: interest rates of 20 percent or more and exorbitant late fees.
Stuart Gulliver said that a transition arrangement, which industry groups have said needs to be in place by the end of the year, needed to contain clarity about the UK's future relationship with the remaining 27 members of the EU to reassure overseas investors.
MetroFi Chief Executive Chuck Haas wouldn't offer details on the companies' business arrangement, but industry observers expect Microsoft to share ad revenue with MetroFi.
In Slovakia, countering the weakening of sectoral bargaining, the existing informal coordination across sectors was in 2013 augmented by the establishment of a formal bi-partite social dialogue arrangement for industry.
The triple helix approach has hitherto been mainly used to study the organizational arrangements of industry, university and government, arrangements that are seen to foster processes of innovation.
While hybrid arrangements abound, industry solutions are still awkwardly matched to consumer preferences.
A confidential briefing sent to MoD managers last week said: "Past efficiencies have been derived from a range of innovative arrangements with industry.
The recession has brought changes to the business of law, including lower fees and less costly billing arrangements, say industry reports and managing partners in firms large and small.
"All of these financial arrangements with industry yield various kinds of conflicts," said Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, a former editor in chief for The New England Journal of Medicine, who recently wrote a book, "On the Take" (Oxford, 2004), about the undue influence of business on medicine.
