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Transfield Services

Transfield Services operates across diverse industries, including mining and process, hydrocarbons, transport (including road, rail and public transport), utilities (including water, power, and telecommunications), facilities management and defence.


Buchanan Dam

Construction of the then-named George W. Hamilton Dam was started in 1931 by a company controlled by Samuel Insull, but soon ended with the dam less than half completed when his highly leveraged public utility holding company collapsed during the Great Depression.

Cold weather rule

A cold weather rule or cold weather law is a law or regulation that prohibits public utility companies from disconnecting customers who are unable to pay for the energy used to heat their homes during the winter.

ZymoGenetics

ZymoGenetics' headquarters are in the landmark Lake Union Steam Plant building, built from 1914 to 1921 by Seattle City Light, the municipal electric utility.


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Hoddle Grid

While the survey plan has proved, in time, to be far-sighted for public utility, serving Melbourne to this day, at the time Hoddle's instructions from Governor Gipps were more prosaic.

Jake Epp

The government of Dalton McGuinty appointed Epp to the Ontario Power Generation Review headed by John Manley to examine the future role of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in the province’s electricity market, examine its corporate and management structure, and decide whether the public utility should proceed with refurbishing three more nuclear reactors at the Pickering nuclear power plant.

Maria Canals International Music Competition

The Maria Canals competition, for which artists such as Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies and Joan Clavé have made publicity posters, was declared to be of public utility by the Spanish Interior Ministry in 1996.

Nancy McIntosh

William A. McIntosh was the president of a public utility, New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

Paris Métro Line 3

The concession was granted to the CMP by the municipal government of Paris on 13 March 1903, but the declaration of public utility was only granted on 26 February 1907.

Paul Anthony

Anthony was founding Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand's Contact Energy, leading the company from February 1996 until after its move from a public utility to being privately owned in 1999.

Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak

The Capital Transit Company was a privately owned public utility that operated a street car and buss transit system in the District of Columbia.

Sun Yun-suan

In 1946, he was sent to Taiwan (which had just been returned to the Nationalist Government from Japan following the Chinese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War) to work at the Taiwan Power Company, a public utility.

United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2014

Soon after the election, Republicans began recruiting new candidates to challenge Gallego in 2014, including Rolando Pablos, a public utility commissioner and former chairman of the board for the Museo Alameda.