Five years ago, the Long Island Power Authority was created to replace the Long Island Lighting Company, a profit-making utility that was unpopular and widely blamed for high energy prices.
The extra growth can provide for larger diameter and a different quality of wood that attracts different buyers, including companies that make utility and transmission poles.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian shipowner IM Skaugen has disclosed it is seeking $50m£32.3m3m) in compensation from MAN, a VW subsidiary that makes utility cars and marine engines, because fuel use in engines it bought from the German company was higher than specified.
APUS Group, a Beijing-based company that makes utility apps for Android smartphones, has launched a $45 million investment fund to invest in Indian startups.
A Kyle, Texas company that makes utility scale power storage systems, Xtreme Power, nabbed a $29.5 million, series C round of venture funding the company announced today.
Indeck and the eight other energy producers are asking state officials to even the playing field by either giving away allowances to the plants that cannot recover their costs or making the utilities that buy the power pay for the allowances, since they can pass the costs on to ratepayers.
The app is the latest to launch from a company called Pushbullet, which also makes a handy utility that includes a similar feature set.
Pushbullet, the company that makes a handy utility that moves notifications, links and files between devices, is out today with a new app called Portal, which focuses on file transfer alone.
Some resolutions include the demand that the NRC make utility officials testify under oath in public before San Onofre might be allowed to go back on line.
INSIDE TRACK: Finally, a sport utility that makes sense for most of us.
In collaboration with the Dataverse Network Project, the California Welfare Laboratory provides a simple-to-use graphing utility that makes it possible to explore these changes in detail, and to produce and download customizable graphs and tables.
