Sentence examples for helped utilities from inspiring English sources

This year has been brighter, as the pummeling of technology stocks has helped utilities pull ahead of broader indexes.

"Suddenly people realize that you can actually make money with these plants," said Ted Marston, the chief nuclear officer at the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit research consortium in Palo Alto, Calif., that has helped utilities obtain license renewals beyond the initial 40 years for which they were approved.

Recently, broadband PLC and narrow-band PLC helped utilities to overcome the limited data rate that has reached more than 200 Mbps [11].

The positive rate environment, coupled with investors' thirst for dividend-paying stocks, helped utilities as a group perform well in 2004.

To date, the company has helped utilities save over 3 million gallons of water and recover over $7 million in lost revenue.

The agency says that these programs have created 4,700 jobs over the past decade and that they helped utility customers save $570 million in 2007.

"It's hard to say how much damage is down there," said Stuart E. Lerner, a partner at Vollmer Associates, a New York engineering firm that has helped utility companies and city agencies navigate the city's underground in the past.

That helped utility stocks, which tend to do better when bond yields fall because investors seeking income buy the stocks for their big dividends.

Ostara and Multiform Harvest are two companies helping utilities do both.

* Purchasing power through long-term contracts would help utilities and customers lessen the impact of large swings in spot prices.

Storage can also help utilities get the best price for the energy they generate, using a strategy called "time shifting".