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Simon Read: Lower fuel bills could cut winter death rate
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
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Their sky-high prices are causing hardship for millions in fuel poverty while the massive increase in the winter death rate last year is clearly partly due to older people not being able to afford to turn their heating on. The Office for National Statistics...
Tags: energy companies, death rate, winter death, United Kingdom, London, Energy economics, Energy policy, Poverty, Socioeconomics, Fuel poverty
Energy companies eye exemption in financial derivatives overhaul
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The associations represent companies in the electric power, generator and local energy utility industries. Fourteen industry lobbying associations set up the “Energy End-Users Coalition” to work on derivatives legislation, said Richard McMahon, executive...
Tags: energy companies, derivatives legislation, financial derivatives, derivatives transactions, derivatives market, Richard McMahon, New York City, Electricity market, Futures contract, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Weather risk management, Derivatives, Over-the-counter, Credit default swap, Business Finance
Smart meters can't wait until after election, says energy boss
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility North Sea gas was discovered, and legislation enabling their use should be pushed through parliament before the general election, says the head of the Energy Retail Association (ERA). Garry Felgate said he expects an announcement on the roll-out of smart...
Tags: smart meter, uk government, Garry Felgate, energy companies, sea gas, North Sea, peak periods, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Electricity meter, Energy Retail Association, Scottish Power, Gas meter, Electric power, Electricity distribution, Electricity, Environment
Five Indian cos among top 15 Asian energy companies
Mumbai :: India | 11 days ago
Credibility Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation. "2009 was the year for India. While the developed world tightened its purse strings and almost ground to a halt, India's petroleum sector came out to play ignoring the recession and preparing for the years ahead,"...
Tags: energy companies, Indian Oil Corporation, Global Energy Company Rankings, asian energy, Platts Asia, India, Mumbai, Reliance Industries, Bharat Petroleum, McGraw-Hill, BSE Sensex, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Platts, Business Finance
Customers in the dark on energy bills
Energy :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Which? says bills from energy companies are needlessly confusing, using terms such as "calorific value", with one company even using a minus sign for a credit amount. One in four people surveyed by the group struggled to understand how much they owed,...
Tags: energy companies, calorific value, Energy
White House wants to kill royalty-in-kind program
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today told Congress he would kill a controversial program that allows energy companies to use actual oil and natural gas — instead of cash — to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands. Salazar said he would...
Tags: Interior Department, royalty program, natural gas, Ken Salazar, secretary ken, interior secretary, federal land, kind program, energy companies, BLM, Washington
Officials: Energy companies want closed Ford plant
Lansing :: MI :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Mich. Two alternative energy companies plan to buy a shuttered Ford Motor Co. factory in southeast Michigan and convert it into a renewable energy park that could employ at least 2,800 workers within five years, officials told state lawmakers Wednesday.
Tags: Ford Motor Co., Michigan, energy companies, Senate, Jennifer Granholm
New Suncor likely to pump up investor attention
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Scott Haggett Reuters Last updated on Sunday, Aug. 02, 2009 02:51PM EDT S uncor Energy Inc., newly bulked up from its $22.5-billion (Canadian) acquisition of Petro-Canada, starts trading this week as Canada's biggest energy company and what most see...
Tags: Petro-Canada, energy companies
Nuclear plant planned for state
Piketon :: OH :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility A multibillion-dollar nuclear power plant proposed for southern Ohio would be the first started in the U.S. since before the Three Mile Island accident. "I'm a big cheerleader for nuclear power, and I always have been," Gov. Ted Strickland told The Dispatch...
Tags: nuclear power, power plant, Piketon, energy companies, Ohio, construction workers
Shareholders vote on Suncor, Petro-Canada merger
Calgary :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility Shareholders in Petro-Canada and Suncor Energy Inc. are set to vote Thursday on the proposed merger of the country's two biggest energy firms...The marriage of the two heavyweights was announced back in March. Petro-Canada equity holders receive 1.28...
Tags: Petro-Canada, Suncor Energy Inc., Canadaâ, Calgary, canada shareholder, shareholder vote, shareholder approve, energy companies
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