Sentence examples for bad utility from inspiring English sources

Some conventional plants cannot make enough money to cover fuel costs and are being shut down.Many observers took E.ON's decision to hive off the fossil-fuel and nuclear-generation business as the creation of a kind of "bad utility"—like the "bad banks" created to house toxic assets after the financial crisis.

Seriously, it's a bad utility knife and there is no way I can recommend it. .

President Barack Obama announced last month that clean energy specialist John Bryson will head the Commerce Department, further expunging the ill affection toward "bad guy" utility companies and suggesting that we have entered a new phase of climate consciousness.

The collapse of Enron and a drop in energy prices during the quarter were bad news for utility funds.

Deep in Russia's conservative "Red Belt," it is a place where people complain about bad roads, high utility prices and overbooked kindergartens.

Toronto-Dominion Bank, Canada's second-largest bank, said today that it would set aside 600 million Canadian dollars, or $385.7 million, against bad loans to utility companies, the fourth time since February that the bank has added to reserves.

That's been bad news for utility stockholders, but good news for value investors looking for bargains.

Blend all that with a little nationalistic leftish populism, not all of it bad: nationalise our utilities and rail, eject foreign owners from key industries and property, pump up armed forces and national pride.

This is, of course, bad news for utilities, and might not even be the best option for the US energy sector, but may be the kick they need to seriously start incorporating renewable clean energy into their business.

Of the 62 health states for which utilities were obtained, 12 were rated as bad as being dead (utility = 0.0) by at least one participant (3 states were considered as worse than death).

You may see warnings about bad sectors when running utility maintenance programs on your computer, and the program will usually try to move any data in a bad sector to a safer part of the disk.