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...Two massive conglomerates with substantial interests in Napa Valley are Constellation Brands, based in New York State, and Australia’s wine giant Treasury Wine Estates....
...RWE is doubling down on the world’s second-biggest renewables market with the acquisition of a portfolio of US solar parks and wind farms from Consolidated Edison Inc in a $6.8bn deal funded by Qatar....
...Across all of New York state, roughly 1.3mn residential customers are behind on payments worth $1.7bn, a historic record, according to the Public Utility Law Project of New York....
...In New York City and its northern suburbs, the utility Con Edison said that 100,000 customers were without service on Friday....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Blaming interstate pipeline supply constraints, the New York utility Con Edison in March suspended new gas connections for most of suburban Westchester county....
...Con Edison, a New York utility, says it expected to have delivered record volumes over the weekend, noting that typical gas usage on the coldest winter days has grown more than 30 per cent since 2011 as...
...Last month, the New York utility Consolidated Edison reached a deal to sell its retail electricity and natural gas business to Constellation, a unit of power generator and utility operator Exelon, for an...
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...In New York City, the utility Consolidated Edison has since 2011 switched almost 5,000 large buildings over from using heavy oil for heating to gas, encouraged by an initiative launched by the mayor and...
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...In July, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill turning over control of the troubled state utility to New Jersey’s Public Service Electric and Gas Company, effective in 2014....
...In New York state, 29 per cent of homes heat with oil, compared with a US average of 6 per cent, according to the Energy Information Administration....
...Of course, he also once hinted to me, years ago, that the future could hold an even cheaper third line, to compete with Uniqlo et al, and that hasn’t happened, so I take this with a grain of salt, but still...
...Consolidated Edison, the city’s largest electricity utility, will spend $250m on its electric, gas and steam systems in the coming months, Mr Bloomberg said....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...“You can have all of your back up in the middle of nowhere but you still have to deliver it to your customers,” he says. “It’s why finance companies still want to be in New York....
...Consolidated Edison said it had restored power to more than 645,000 customers in New York, Long Island and Westchester County, on Saturday morning, about 70 per cent of all those who lost power....
...NYSE Euronext confirmed that the New York Stock Exchange’s downtown trading floor remains free of water....
...In case you’ve been hiding under a rock these past few weeks you’ll have noticed that the fashion carousel of New York, London, Milan and now Paris is nearing its full rotation (actually, maybe that’s why...
...Andrew Cuomo, New York state governor, continued to hit out at utility companies, saying the progress in restoring power was “unacceptable” and repeating his vow to review the companies’ operating licenses...
...As the weather turned colder, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said more than 1.4m people in the state were still without power, mostly in New York City and Long Island....
...Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, said the reopening of New York’s port meant tankers could start resupplying fuel, easing shortages that have further complicated life for the region....
...a Beatle/friend of Madonna, Gwyneth, Cameron et al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
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