"If there is more pressure now on Germany to tighten its budget on top of what it was already planning to do, I could imagine that the Germans could get upset," said Katinka Barysch, an economics specialist at the Center for European Reform in London.
Exelon is using the money to install new "smart meters" for its Philadelphia-area customers, cutting the price tag for a project it was already planning.
A publisher under the Ministry of Education says it was already planning to include a Mo Yan novella in a school textbook.He has attracted criticism, though, for what some call his cosy relationship with the Communist Party.
Authority officials said it made obvious financial sense, because it would allow the railroad to purchase cars it was already planning to buy earlier and at a cheaper price.
First Solar told the government that with two projects it was already planning plus NextLight's two projects, all four solar farms using cadmium telluride, it could open a factory in Arizona to build the panels, adding jobs, which was a central goal of President Obama's energy program.
MTV said it was already planning some steps to keep controversy at bay. "There has always been a five-second audio delay, and there will continue to be," said John Shea, executive vice president for integrated marketing for the MTV Networks Music Group division of MTV Networks in New York, which is part of Viacom.
MOCCA is a much bigger institution, but it was already planning on finding a larger home before the eviction notices went out.
It's a promise to "continue to fund existing grants" to the organization -- which it was already planning on doing -- and to make it eligible for future grants.
