Sentence examples for demand for generators from inspiring English sources

"Demand for generators has been overwhelming, and we are increasing our production levels," Art Aiello, a spokesman for Generac, told me.

Meanwhile rooftop solar doesn't even bid into the market, with its output just reducing the demand for generators that do bid into the wholesale market.

Demand for generators has meant extra work for utilities like Con Edison, which has had a 50 percent jump since 2010 in the number of requests to inspect the natural gas lines that are being connected to newly installed standby units.

Shares of Cummins Inc. fell 4.5percentt on concern that demand for power generators and truck engines would be lower than expected.

Most of the company's markets were weak and demand for power generators has continued to decline, said Jason Rawlings, a spokesman.

At the company's newly rehabilitated headquarters in Waukesha, Aaron P. Jagdfeld, the youthful and enthusiastic chief executive, says major storms typically create an immediate demand for portable generators — and the demand from Sandy was unprecedented.

DUKE ENERGY CORP., Charlotte, N.C., the biggest utility owner in the United States by revenue, and Fluor Corp., Aliso Viejo, Calif., the largest publicly traded engineering company in the United States, said they would dissolve a power-plant construction venture to reduce expenses after demand for new generators slumped.

"And they're saying, 'How much power do you have and how fast can you get it here?' " For Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction and earthmoving equipment, soaring demand for diesel-powered generators is bolstering profits in a fast-growing unit and helping stabilize a company that is coping with slowing sales of construction and mining equipment.

But the loss may be more than offset by stronger demand for gas turbines, wind generators, and equipment to make power grids function more efficiently.

Familiar problems stand in the way of further cost-cutting: UK Coal says, for example, that the National Union of Mineworkers, still presided over by Arthur Scargill, adamantly refuses to discuss flexible shift patterns.Unless the price falls sharply, the generators' demand for British coal is likely to decline.

The advancing development of small portable devices and miniaturization of electronic components such as smartphones, laptops, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and sensors have led to an increasing demand for small scale power generators, such as the Ultra Micro Gas Turbine UMGTT).