Like roughly half the utilities in the United States, Duke is regulated; it can charge more for power only if it builds a new power plant and persuades the regulator to approve a rate increase to pay for it.
Steve Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, an advocacy group, estimates that about half of utilities now run programs that pay customers to cut use during peak periods.
For patients who rate the utility of both TOX and REL at half the utility of TWiST, the combination treatment is expected to provide an additional 7 weeks of quality-adjusted survival time compared with capecitabine alone over a 67-week time horizon.
And Arizona Public Service is one of about a half-dozen utilities that is considering a joint project to build a 250-megawatt plant based on the same technology.
A half-dozen utilities have indicated similar interest in constructing new plants at existing nuclear sites.
"Fortypercentt of America's carbon emissions comes from buildings -- almost half -- and utility bills are a major factor in household bankruptcy," said Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club.
You couldn't carry a firearm in a national park at the time, but I did have my two-and-a-half-inch utility knife and I started folding out the blade as a precaution.
The game turned in the second-half when utility-back Luke McAlister was sin-binned for obstruction.
On a wall that conceals utilities, half a dozen steel frames surround the tile swatches and a vintage plaque with flowery topography advertising "the product of the American Encaustic Tiling Co".
Barclays Capital pointed out in a research note that two of the three sectors hit hardest in the first half of November, utilities and telecommunications, had the highest dividend yields.
