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...On top of that, bricks and rocks are cheap — costing perhaps 15-20€/MWh compared with electro-chemical batteries at €150/MWh — and lose very little energy in the process....
...Visitors can play a ukulele (sort of) in time with George Formby, whose innuendo-laden ditties included “With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock”....
...The water industry regulator has fined just one privatised utility for breaching regulations designed to prevent sewage spills in England since the rules came into force almost 30 years ago, according to...
...There has been little of the innovation shown in countries like Israel, which recycles wastewater and uses desalination plants....
...Potential investors were reluctant to back new funds and they had little appetite for deals that offered less lucrative returns than large buyouts....
...But critics say climate-related issues have been exacerbated by chronic under-investment in infrastructure by utility companies....
...“A few years back, everything Ørsted touched was seen to turn to gold and now it’s [seen as] rock,” she added, saying that “markets overshoot and undershoot”....
...As the FT’s Alice Ross noted last month, some of these do little more than “buying utilities with stable returns”....
...A Number 10 source said some of the “speculation” about the sector was “a little overboard”....
...Yet, in Europe’s summer drought last year, little or no rain fell on the people, land or rivers in Brittany, the second biggest food-producing region in France....
...At best, they are tamely addressing it for the developed world, by buying utilities with stable returns. Or backing companies with little to do with water sustainability....
...“People like a shorter length for an occasion that is a little smarter, when matching swim shorts with shirts, or just looking to show a little more leg.”...
...The group was deep in the mountains to gather evidence in a high-stakes lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, against RWE, Germany’s largest utility company....
...To Hamilton, representing the coal industry, the legislation backed by Manchin does little more than bankroll coal’s rivals....
...United Utilities said it had reduced spills last year but the make-up of the sewer network in its region meant leakages were a quarter above the industry average....
...Yes, everybody sings sea shanties, and yes, there’s a town called Dildo (sample fridge magnet: “Just a little place till everyone came”)....
...Columnist Stephen Bush and Gill Plimmer, the FT’s expert on the privatised utilities, are on hand to discuss....
...Dealing with this was a central objective for Guedes but he has little to show for it....
...That was not the case a little over a year and a half ago....
...“These are a poor substitute for improving the wastewater network, and will hasten pipe deterioration,” he said....
...But the abundance of caution at Chooz A — one of six colossal nuclear reactors that are in the process of being shut down by EDF, the state-controlled utility company that owns and runs all of France’s nuclear...
...But while stripping the retail operation to its bare minimum is great for maximising utility and reducing costs, it introduces the same sort of risks that apply to undercapitalised banks, or those that rely...
...And these returns have come with relatively little risk....
...Guest at the Grid fund, a big buyer of batteries, says he sees little prospect that China’s position at the forefront — with market share of around 80 per cent — will change....
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