Sentence examples for encouraged powers from inspiring English sources

His parents encouraged Powers and his younger sister to read rather than watch television through an unusual bribery scheme.

Cheap gas, in turn, has encouraged power companies to switch to the cleaner fuel, replacing the most heavily polluting source of energy that we know, coal.

But coal's main enemy has been the marketplace — the discovery of abundant supplies of cheaper natural gas and the remarkable advances in wind and solar power that have encouraged power companies, for economic reasons alone, to switch to cleaner fuels.

"California needs to reform its laws in order to encourage power generation.

Coal subsidies encourage power companies to use dirty methods of electricity generation.

The government grants might encourage power companies to install it in more sparsely populated areas.

Administration officials have primarily suggested more drilling for oil and gas and a possible rollback of environmental standards to encourage power plant construction.

Mr. Makovich said that Mr. Davis had to change the marketplace to encourage power providers to make necessary investments in California.

That has led to a carbon price of around €7 (£5) per tonne, too low to encourage power companies to switch from polluting fuels such as as coal.

Meanwhile, the state's deregulation plan did little to encourage power plant construction -- no major plants have been built for 12 years -- even as power reserves drifted dangerously low.

A freshman assemblyman from Queens, Michael N. Gianaris, a Democrat who sponsored the bill, said the bill would encourage power producers with old plants to rebuild with new technology, cutting approval time from a year to six months.