Sentence examples for firm grid from inspiring English sources

Just after he had presciently opened a product design business in Silicon Valley in 1979, William Moggridge was hired by a start-up firm, Grid Systems, to design a new type of computer — one that could fit into a briefcase.

Fidelity, devotion, discretion, a sense of tacit virtue, unyielding principle, and conspicuous reserve — Ben is the apotheosis of conventional liberal morality, a firm grid of values that he applies to himself without daring to impose on others.

Users based in California can also access the firm's Grid cloud gaming service - an experiment in which the firm offers games streamed from its own servers.

The firm designs the grid of upcoming programmes that people see when they flop in front of the television and press a button on the remote control marked "TV guide".

Ray Gogel, president and chief operating officer of the Current Group, a Germantown, Md .smart grid firm, worries that the edges of the grid are acquiring too many nodes that haven't been planned for.

GridPoint, an American start-up which sells technology to improve the efficiency of electrical grids, raised $120m in venture capital in September; Silver Spring Networks, another smart-grid firm, raised $75m last month.

Several had said China would first raise on-grid power tariffs, the prices at which power generating firms sell to grid operators, and then hike prices for end-users once inflationary pressure had subsided.

The government raised the prices that grid firms charge industrial consumers by 0.0167 yuan per kilowatt hour, Chinese state media said after a briefing by the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning body.

That's why this week's announcement that beyond the grid solar firm BBOXX will lead the industry's first ever securitization is really big news.

Power is distributed to homes and firms by publicly owned grid companies that are often bankrupt, their tariffs kept too low by local politicians.

Most economists believe that governments need to help markets work efficiently: enforcing contracts, resolving insolvencies, hooking up firms to the power grid, and the like.