Seven-passenger versions of G.M.'s midsize utilities started to reach showrooms in the spring.
FROM the time Northeast Utilities started building the Millstone Nuclear Power Station, it has been a financial windfall for Waterford, which taxes the property.
Formally, the local electric utility started the aluminum company's bankruptcy.
In the early 2000s Enel, the country's biggest utility, started installing smart meters in most households so that it could clamp down on theft and cut off non-payers remotely.
It's going upstream this month with its promising Santa Fe sport utility (starting price: $16,900) and its XG300 large sedan in October ($23,900).
The big Lincoln Navigator sport utility started well a few years ago but is now being blown away by Cadillac's Escalade.
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the city's power utility started to revamp its infrastructure, and ultimately decided to build out a gigabit municipal fiber infrastructure for the city of about 175,000.
A provider can discourage such deceptions by using a strategyproof cost sharing mechanism, that is a particular public algorithm that, by forcing the agents to truthfully reveal their utility, starting from the reported utilities, decides who gets the service (the receivers) and at what price.
In addition to power transmission technology, Hydro-Québec plans to offer high-speed internet over its transmission lines within a few years; the utility started testing internet over its lines in January 2004.
