TEPCO ( Tokyo Electric Power Co .)/ NGK ( NGK Insulators Ltd .) consortium declared their interest in researching the NaS battery in 1983, and have become the primary drivers behind the development of this type ever since.

Other ambitious ventures during the period included the construction of Ocoee Dam No. 1 and Hales Bar Dam ( completed in 1911 and 1913 respectively ) by the forerunners of the Tennessee Electric Power Company ( TEPCO ).

TVA also gained control of TEPCO's assets after a legal struggle in the 1930s with TEPCO president Jo Conn Guild and attorney Wendell Wilkie that was eventually dismissed by the U. S. Supreme Court.

As of 2008, sodium – sulfur batteries are only manufactured by one group, the NGK / TEPCO consortium, which is producing 90 MW of storage capacity each year.

Following this, on October 1, 1998, companies like Tokyo Gas, TEPCO, ampm, TV Tokyo, and Culture Convenience Club, set up a joint company Tokyo Football Club Company with the aim of making the team eligible for joining the J.

In October 2010, the South Texas Project announced that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, had entered into an agreement with Nuclear Innovation North America ( a joint venture between the reactor manufacturer, Toshiba, and plant partner NRG Energy ) which was the largest of the two stakeholders in the proposed reactors, to purchase an initial 9. 2375 % stake in the expansion for $ 125 Million, and $ 30 Million for an option to purchase an additional stake in the new units for $ 125 Million more ( resulting in approximately 18 % ownership by TEPCO, or 500MW of generation capacity ).

Anti-nuclear campaigners alleged that the financial situation of new partner TEPCO, combined with the ongoing Fukushima nuclear accident were also key factors in the decision.

The 5 member Electric Power Board of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County ( the " Power Board ") was established in 1939 when the Tennessee Valley Authority purchased the assets of the Tennessee Electric Power Co. ( TEPCO ) or for $ 79 million.

After the purchase, the five hundred employees of TEPCO become employees of the newly created Nashville Electric Service.

Dalton chose to press charges, and a felony battery investigation was opened by the police ; Bonaduce was named as a suspect.

The boat howitzers appeared to be popular — when Grimes ' battery was forced to turn in one of its guns, it chose to turn in a 3-inch Ordnance Rifle rather than one of its boat howitzers.

Parallax chose Hal at the behest of Sinestro ( who was puppeteering a hard-light duplicate of himself in the battery during their battle on Oa.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

A popular but unsubstantiated belief is that Dodgson chose the particular animal to represent himself because of his stammer, and thus would accidentally introduce himself as " Do-do-dodgson.

Claudius chose to adopt Nero because of his Julian and Claudian lineage.

Geologists chose the area because of a wide crater created approximately 1. 6 million years ago by a large meteorite.

They chose C because it seemed to be the biggest upcoming language.

* FC — Fielder's choice: times reaching base safely because a fielder chose to try for an out on another runner

Their possessions consisted of cattle and gold, because these were the only things they could carry about with them everywhere according to circumstances and shift where they chose.

Van Gulik chose Di Gong An to translate because it was in his view closer to the Western tradition and more likely to appeal to non-Chinese readers.

Also, it is said that Erasmus chose to remain a Roman Catholic because of a lecture he heard from Savonarola, the Dominican friar who was highly influential in Florence for a time.

Richard Stallman chose Lisp as the extension language for his rewrite of Emacs ( the original used TECO as its extension language ) because of its powerful features, including the ability to treat functions as data.

Unlike Common Lisp, Scheme existed at the time Stallman was rewriting Gosling Emacs into GNU Emacs, but he chose not to use it because of its comparatively poor performance on workstations, and he wanted to develop a dialect which he thought would be more easily optimized.

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction " vermouth " in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

MOP chose to endorse Calixte, instead of a candidate from its own ranks, because the party's leader, Daniel Fignolé, was only twenty-six years old — too young to stand for the nation's highest office.

He was interested in biology, but chose not to study it because of his " color-blindness and awkwardness in the laboratory ".

Monroe was not particularly interested in legal theory or practice, but chose to take it up because he thought that it offered " the most immediate rewards " and could ease his path to wealth, social standing, and political influence.

Whale chose Frankenstein, mostly because none of Universal's other properties particularly interested him and he wanted to make something other than a war picture.

" He responded to such rumours by telling Playboy and other interviewers that he was not gay, and telling Lesley White of the Sunday Times, " I chose for a long time not to answer these questions because of the manner in which they were asked, and because I was never talking to someone I trusted, so why should I?

Recently I chose to participate because it's a little hard on the people I love.

Stalin had thoughts to appoint Lazar Kaganovich as head of the NKVD, but chose Beria probably because he was a professional secret policeman.

Unable to publicly reach a consensus because of constant political wrangling, the Michigan House of Representatives privately chose the Township of Lansing out of frustration.

The codifiers ultimately chose the same dialects, but did so because they were " most widespread and most likely to be adopted by speakers of other dialects ".

Breckinridge chose the nurse-midwifery model used in England and Scotland because she expected these nurse-midwives on horseback to serve the health care needs of the families living in the remote hills of eastern Kentucky.

An MCC sub-committee chose the Richmond Park option because it was level enough for cricket but sloped enough to prevent inundation.

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??

In 2009, IGN chose the 7800 to be their 17th best video game console of all time.

St. Thomas chose the analogy: all beings are like, or analogous to, each other in existing.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

He finally chose to embark on " an experiment, to find what a single individual contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity.

Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ( the 1981 winner ) as " the best novel out of all the winners.

For this reason, the hospital chose to continue the induced hypothermia technique for all of its comatose patients that suffered from cardiac arrest.

The Cowboys, who retain rights to all announcers, chose not to renew Laufenberg's contract in 2006 and brought in Waters.

Cohn and Capra chose to ignore all the negative publicity and demands, and released the film as planned.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

Hera offered Paris control over all Asia and Europe, while Athena offered wisdom, fame, and glory in battle, and Aphrodite offered the most beautiful mortal woman in the world as a wife, and he accordingly chose her.

Nonetheless, many of the prominent old-time Colts, many of whom had settled in the Baltimore area, were bitter and chose to cut all ties to the relocated Colts team.

Jackson chose to ignore Stuart's infantry designation and assigned him on July 4 to command all the cavalry companies of the Army of the Shenandoah, organized as the 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment.

:" The tragedy of Dokdokwas is deepened by the fact that most scholars now agree that Frémont and Carson, in their blind vindictiveness, probably chose the wrong tribe to lash out against: In all likelihood the band of native Americans that had killed three men were from the neighboring Modoc ...

In Milgram's defense, 84 percent of former participants surveyed later said they were " glad " or " very glad " to have participated, 15 percent chose neutral responses ( 92 % of all former participants responding ).

When the work was restored in 1993, the conservators chose not to remove all the perizomas of Daniele, leaving some of them as a historical document, and because some of Michelangelo ’ s work was previously scraped away by the touch-up artist's application of “ decency ” to the masterpiece.

In 2001 the two parties chose to have the ICJ decide on the matter once and for all.

The Qur ' an further states that God chose Adam, Noah, the family of Abraham and the family of Amram above all mankind ( III: 33 ).

In the 1998 plebiscite, all the options were rejected when 50. 3 % of voters chose the " none of the above " option, favoring the commonwealth status quo by default.

A contrasting Christian view maintains that God is completely sovereign over all things but that he chose to give each individual self-determining free will through prevenient grace.

Therefore all of those who vote for either of the eliminated cities chose to vote for Nashville in the second round.

To avoid the professional hazard of politicized history, some historians chose pre-modern, mediæval history or classical history, where ideological demands were relatively relaxed and conversation with other historians in the field could be fostered ; nevertheless, despite the potential danger of proscribed ideology corrupting historians ’ work, not all of Soviet historiography was corrupt.

Belichick chose neither, asking that the team be introduced all at once in the spirit of unity.