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LETTER: Energy Efficiency Will Help Sooner Than Hydro
The May 22 editorial asserting that hydropower from beyond our borders can lower Connecticut's high electricity costs misses the mark ["Pass The Clean-Energy Bill"]. Large hydro might help at some point -- maybe -- but it will require the construction...Tags: Energy Saving, Environmental Issues
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LETTER: Forget Hydropower, Try Community Choice Aggregation
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's plan to raise $80 million by auctioning off the right to be the standard-issue retail electricity supplier is a clear admission that electricity market deregulation has failed. Why else would a company pay to provide the standard-...Tags: Renewable Energy, Dannel P. Malloy , Auction Service, Environmental Issues, Hydroelectricity
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Brazil still a land of opportunity for some
Reuters(For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/LatinAmericanInvestment12) By Brian Winter SAO PAULO, May 24 (Reuters) - Just two years ago, Brazil was still hailed as "The Near China" - an economy...Tags: National Government, FIFA World Cup, Embraer SA, Dilma Rousseff, Credit Ratings
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EU reviews policies, looks for ways to help aluminium industry
Reuters* Reviews import duty, long term electricity contract rules * Expects to have clear review for aluminium by October * Industry says aluminium smelters still at risk of shutdown By Maytaal Angel and Susan Thomas LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - The...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Economy, Business and Finance, International Organizations, Politics, Finance
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PPL to add distribution improvement charge to bills
PPL Utilities customers will soon see a new addition to their bills: a special charge aimed at financing speedier improvements to the Allentown-based utility's electricity distribution system. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved the...
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Glendale could see $57 million-worth of improvement projects in the pipeline
Glendale officials have proposed budgeting $57 million next fiscal year for capital improvement projects, including park, street and utility improvements, adding to what City Manager Scott Ochoa this week said was "a lot of good stuff" coming in the...Tags: Google Inc., Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Water Supply, Finance
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Potomac Edison customers shocked in W.Va. Panhandle
richardb@herald-mail.comMore than two dozen Eastern Panhandle residents got their chance to vent against billing practices by Potomac Edison, which were based on estimated not actual usage and resulted in monthly electric bills that, they said at a public hearing Wednesday...Tags: FirstEnergy Corp., Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Herb Snyder, The Herald-Mail
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Electricity rate hikes back on the radar in Glendale
Glendale will host a series of community meetings to discuss a schedule of electricity rate increases that city officials say are needed to pay for badly needed infrastructure upgrades and to improve the utility’s financial footing. The meetings...
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Adding Hydropower To State Energy Mix Makes Sense
A good bill to get more clean energy into Connecticut has been held up in the House. That's too bad. The House should pass the bill, which has already passed the Senate. It would likely lower Connecticut's sky-high electric rates while decreasing the...Tags: Renewable Energy, Global Expansion, Nuclear Power, Northeast Utilities, Environmental Issues
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Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers
ReutersCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred...Tags: Colombo (Sri Lanka), Civil and Public Service, Unions, National Government, Career and Workplace
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Nikkei hits new 5-1/2-year high but pace of gains slow, Bernanke cues eyed
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged up to a fresh 5-1/2-year high on Tuesday, reversing earlier losses, as retail investors scooped up underperforming stocks such as Sharp Corp and Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc . Trading was choppy, with...Tags: Sprint Nextel Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Tokyo (Japan), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Sharp Corp
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Northeast Japan jolted by magnitude 5.9 quake, no tsunami warning
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Tokyo Electric Power Co's two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no...Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Tokyo (Japan), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Nuclear Power, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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