Sentence examples for leading utilities from inspiring English sources

California's flawed attempt at electricity deregulation has led to skyrocketing prices and left the leading utilities in the state near insolvency.

Japan stuck to its nuclear fuel cycle goal, however, despite leaks and delays at a vast reprocessing plant in the north, leading utilities to store a growing stockpile of spent fuel.

A major recession slowed energy consumption, and at the same time technological advances unlocked huge amounts of natural gas, leading utilities to shut down coal plants in favor of natural-gas plants that emit half as much carbon dioxide.

But it could be a serious issue within the decade in places such as California, where renewable energy requirements are leading utilities to install large amounts of solar power.

On domestic action, his U-turn on CO2 regulation through a multi-pollutant strategy came as a blow not only to greens, but also to the group of leading utilities that had come to the government to ask for such an approach.

Omaha, Nebr.-based NNG runs 16,500 miles of interstate natural-gas pipeline from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Great Lakes in the upper Midwest, servicing some of the regions' leading utilities.

At MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, Mr. Sokol turned a small energy company into a leading utility company supplying electricity and natural gas.

The winter months were unusually cold and March was unusually warm, leading utility output to soar and then drop significantly.

Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed two consumer advocates, including the longtime lawyer for the state's leading utility watchdog, to the five-member panel, and will soon appoint a third.

The big Italian energy company succumbed to an improved offer from Fiat and EDF of around euro6 billion ($5.3 billion), but the European Union's competition authorities, anxious to ensure a liberalised market in energy, may yet intervene.Enel, Italy's biggest electricity company, is to sell Elettrogen, its generation business, to Endesa, Spain's leading utility, for euro2.6 billion ($2.3 billion).

In this study the change of utilities' business models is revealed in the form of responses gathered in interviews undertaken with leading utility representatives, a bottom-up initiative, and a public institution.