Sentence examples for exorbitant electricity from inspiring English sources

The story of exorbitant electricity charges is repeating itself throughout Delhi, feeding growing discontent among residents, especially of lower-income neighborhoods, over inadequate public services at higher costs.

In a refrain now common among nearly all Puerto Ricans, Fenosik cited the island's exorbitant electricity costs, which in some cases can run into the hundreds of dollars for a two-bedroom home.

"STT thinks it's time to let the Coalition know that Australia is not going to pay exorbitant prices for electricity simply on the basis of some ideological whim … This is not just a matter for country people trying to protect their rural communities.

The perception is that wholesale energy companies like Dynegy, Enron and El Paso are going to report big bucks this quarter largely because they have California utility companies in a squeeze and paying exorbitant rates for electricity.

Sky-high world oil prices have made the 36percentt of Pakistan's electricity that comes from imported oil exorbitant for the local economy.

These folks are not likely to have access to grid electricity anytime soon due to the exorbitant cost and logistical difficulty of extending power lines to remote parts of the world.

Spencer Abraham, the federal energy secretary, rejected a plea from several Western governors today for the federal government to impose temporary price caps on wholesale electricity, after listening to their concerns that "exorbitant" and "out-of-control" electricity costs were spreading economic havoc across the region.

Electricity prices would fall if carbon were no longer squeezed using exorbitant subsidies.

This is likely to result in less emphasis on nuclear energy as source of electricity in the future, and certainly less of what critics say have been exorbitant, pie-in-the-sky schemes to develop exotic new generators.

Because of the electricity shortage and the financial troubles of utilities, out-of-state companies that sell power to California are charging exorbitant prices on the spot market for immediate delivery.

Only when there was not enough electricity bid a day earlier to meet demand would the system operator have to declare an emergency and buy electricity, usually at exorbitant rates, or risk turning out the lights for parts of the state.