The Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, backs it. From Wordnik.com. [House Passes Climate Bill] Reference
Credit unions, or financial cooperatives, are distinct from investor-owned businesses. From Wordnik.com. [People Spend Their Own Money Best] Reference
The free market is great, but being part of an investor-owned utility is no free market. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Butterfield: Pay the Same, Get More: No New Boulder Franchise Agreement] Reference
The way an investor-owned utility makes money is through a return on capital investment. From Wordnik.com. [10 Questions for . . . Tom Reddoch, Electric Power Research Institute] Reference
Geoffrey Hyland was named nonexecutive chairman of this investor-owned distribution utility. From Wordnik.com. [Noted ...] Reference
Many golf businesses were gobbled up by investor-owned companies, which focused on short-term earnings. From Wordnik.com. [The trade show must go on] Reference
Much of the health care industry is investor-owned, from insurers to hospital chains and drug companies. From Wordnik.com. [John Geyman: Market Mythology in Health Care: Why Markets Can Never Control Health Care Costs] Reference
As consumer confidence in investor-owned businesses continues to plunge, credit union membership has spiked. From Wordnik.com. [Cooperatives: A Better Kind Of Corporation] Reference
Clever and others worry particularly about nonprofit or teaching hospitals acquired by investor-owned networks. From Wordnik.com. [With Or Without You] Reference
Co-op executives don't have the incentive to pilfer their businesses that executives at investor-owned firms do. From Wordnik.com. [Cooperatives: A Better Kind Of Corporation] Reference
The world's largest investor-owned utility by market value nevertheless raised its full-year net-profit forecast. From Wordnik.com. [E.on's profit fell 28% in first half, but the full-year forecast is raised] Reference
Many well-known golf businesses were gobbled up by investor-owned companies, which focused on short-term earnings. From Wordnik.com. [The Patient Is Stable] Reference
Puget is the largest investor-owned utility in a state dominated by customer-owned utilities such as Seattle City Light. From Wordnik.com. [Macquarie Group to Buy Puget] Reference
Staying with Xcel means paying a hefty premium for being an asset to an investor-owned utility with exorbitant overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Butterfield: Pay the Same, Get More: No New Boulder Franchise Agreement] Reference
For E. ON, the sale is part of a plan by the world's largest investor-owned utility to streamline operations and cut debt. From Wordnik.com. [PPL to Pay $6.7 Billion for E.On's U.S. Business] Reference
But those seven are very big and they're all investor-owned and their first allegiance is to the shareholders who own them. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Kall: Interview with Health Insurance Exec/Whistleblower Wendell Potter] Reference
PACKER: Well, yes ConEd is an investor-owned utility and they had one square mile they had to worry about in lower Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2005] Reference
 But those seven are very big and they're all investor-owned and their first allegiance is to the shareholders who own them. From Wordnik.com. [Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter-- Interview; Details How Insurers Screw Insureds] Reference
The guidelines announced by lenders last month currently only apply to investor-owned utilities, which produce more electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Banks Hope to Expand Carbon Rules to Public Utilities] Reference
According to the American Public Power Association, investor-owned utilities charge roughly 17 percent more in rates than munis. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Butterfield: Pay the Same, Get More: No New Boulder Franchise Agreement] Reference
Just look at the difference between investor-owned banks and credit unions, which are cooperatively owned financial institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Cooperatives: A Better Kind Of Corporation] Reference
This program is financed through the investor-owned utilities and established under the authority of the state utilities commission. From Wordnik.com. [Newt Gingrich and Jerry Brown Spend $10 Billion] Reference
Southern California Water Company is the second largest investor-owned water utility in the state, and the fifth largest in the nation. From Wordnik.com. [President Names Advisors On Infrastructure Protection] Reference
The bank said it believes it can legally modify the "vast majority" of investor-owned mortgages and will seek investor approval in other cases. From Wordnik.com. [J.P. Morgan Expands Loan Effort] Reference
Mr. Teyssen is responsible for day-to-day operations of the Essen, Germany, company, the world's largest investor-owned utility by market value. From Wordnik.com. [E.On Chief Executive] Reference
A Missouri measure would require investor-owned utilities to ensure that 2% of their power comes from renewable sources by 2011, and 15% by 2021. From Wordnik.com. [Economy Casts Shadow Over Local Ballot Measures] Reference
Getting both municipal and investor-owned utilities involved is important because the power industry produces 40% of U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions. From Wordnik.com. [Banks Hope to Expand Carbon Rules to Public Utilities] Reference
E. ON, the world's largest investor-owned utility by market value, said the impairment charges reflect deteriorated market conditions for its U.S. From Wordnik.com. [E.ON to Book $4.29 Billion in Impairment Charges] Reference
Private physicians, private clinics and private health care providers could continue to operate as private entities but could not be investor-owned. From Wordnik.com. [How Would Single Payer Work For You?] Reference
The guidelines have made it easier for public utilities to continue pursuing coal-fired plants, even as investor-owned utilities back away from them. From Wordnik.com. [Banks Hope to Expand Carbon Rules to Public Utilities] Reference
In Missouri, a clean-energy initiative would require investor-owned utilities to get 2% of their power from renewable sources by 2011 and 15% by 2021. From Wordnik.com. [Massachusetts Votes to Maintain Income Tax] Reference
Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, says he sees "a disturbing disconnect on this issue.". From Wordnik.com. [Green Projects Generate] Reference
During the last 12 months, Russia and Venezuela expropriated oil producing assets developed and paid for by the world's major investor-owned oil companies. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Andrews: Rejecting the Real Snake Oil] Reference
He said a supermajority requirement allowed a minority of voters to stop municipal utilities from winning over customers from investor-owned utilities like PG. From Wordnik.com. [Utilities Do Battle on California Ballot] Reference
But the Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, backed it, as did companies with big investments in alternatives to fossil fuels. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Wary of Tariff Provision] Reference
Treasury Department officials say they believe that servicers will be able to modify the vast majority of investor-owned loans based on their current contracts. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Investors Call for Changes in Rescue Plan] Reference
This follows an investigation by the New York Times last year, which found that investor-owned nursing homes had worse conditions, with worse outcomes for patients. From Wordnik.com. [Philip N. Cohen: Nursing Homes Are a Good Case of Economics Gone Bad] Reference
Includes retail electric utility service providers - investor-owned, municipals, rural cooperatives - who sell at least 1 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year. From Wordnik.com. [David Doniger: "First Read" of the Waxman-Markey Energy and Climate Discussion Draft] Reference
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