Sentence examples for instructed utilities from inspiring English sources

Michigan, as part of its deregulation plan, has instructed utilities to find a way to increase transmission in the state by about 50percentt by June 2002.

In a word, they instructed California utilities to short what the utilities had traditionally supplied—electric power itself.

Customers can override the change on Allegheny's Web site or instruct the utility to lower their thermostats remotely at other times.

In Greensburg, Pa., 75 Allegheny Power customers are trying out a system that uses the Internet not for billing but to instruct the utility when to raise and lower their thermostats automatically.

When the commission expanded its efforts to monitor and limit excessive prices earlier this week, it also instructed the state's utilities and mostly out-of-state generating companies to negotiate settlements concerning the accusations of price-gouging.

When faced with a decision about medical treatments and health programs that requires trade-offs between quality of life (morbidity) and quantity of life (mortality), physicians and surgeons are often instructed to use the utility analysis technique to provide treatment recommendations to assist their patients in making treatment decisions.

As a result of the deregulation of California's energy market two years ago, public utilities, like Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric, were instructed to buy and sell power through the exchange, in part, to block sweetheart deals with power generators.

Mr. Ensign's lawyers have repeatedly disputed that Mr. Hampton was instructed to appeal to Mr. Ensign's office on behalf of his lobbying clients, NV Energy, a utility company, and Allegiant Air, a Las Vegas-based discount carrier.

North Carolina state legislators have stymied efforts to clean up electric utility coal ash dumps, reduced the state's Department of Environmental Quality staff by a third, and instructed DEQ regulators to soft-pedal the enforcement of air pollution standards.

I did as instructed.

Resume cooking as instructed.