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Net metering has become a widespread mechanism in the U.S. for supporting customer adoption of distributed photovoltaics (PV), but has faced challenges as PV installations grow to a larger share of generation in a number of states. This paper examines the value of the bill savings that customers receive under net metering, and the associated role of retail rate design, based on a sample of approximately two hundred residential customers of California's two largest electric utilities.

Business model choice plays an important source of competitive advantage for new ventures in the microgeneration sector. Yet, existing literature focuses on strategic management of internal resources as the constraints in this choice process. In the energy sector, external factors may be at least as influential in shaping these business models. This paper examines the roles of politico-institutional and socio-institutional dynamics in the choice of business models for microgeneration ventures.

Two sewage treatment plants have been installed at the plant and at the Urjanagar residential colony respectively.

The first CETP (Common Effluent Treatment Plant) for heterogeneous chemical industries wastewater has been established by Jeedimetla Effluent Treatment Ltd (JETL) and is in operation since 1989 in Jeedimetla Industrial Estate (JIE), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Ngong Ping Sewage Treatment Works is first tertiary sewage treatment plant in Hong Kong. It has been in operation since late 2005.

Moni desalination plant was built in eight months, representing the fastest execution of a large scale desalination plant.

Mithapur, being a water scarcity region, uses spent cooling seawater instead of raw water for dilution of HCT underflow. Per day approx. 2700 KL of seawater is consumed in the plant.

A 25% reduction in bore well water consumption annually has been achieved with a good amount of energy savings.

Fluoride concentrations of less than 1 milligram/liter can easily be achieved by utilization of a new adsorption method based on a regenerable aluminium doped chelating resin.

Production of fish in any culture system depends to a great extent on water quality management.