Sentence examples for merchant power from inspiring English sources

This led to the spread of a new form of merchant power across much of the developed world in the form of debt-fuelled consumer capitalism.

Its price has dropped so low that merchant power plants using other fuels have been forced to shut down or sell electricity at bargain basement rates.

PPL is a major utility that had re-created itself back when gas was expensive and merchant power was in vogue.

We are still dealing with the backlash of California, the implosion of the merchant power industry and the lack of credit.

The company said it planned to remain active in Europe, focusing on its power development business, including two merchant power plants now under construction in Britain.

Dynegy's estimate is based on the company's broad premise that the price of power several years from now will be sufficient for merchant power companies to cover the cost of building a plant, but not appreciably more.

About $150 billion of debt paper written by electric utilities and independent ("merchant") power-plant operators is now trading at deep discounts.

In addition to sidestepping the Seamen's Act, Panamanian-flagged ships in this early period paid sailors on the Japanese wage scale, which was much lower than that of western merchant powers.

One of the most important changes was the proliferation of "merchant plants," power plants located in a particular utility's region but owned by a different company.

Entergy has merchant nuclear power plants primarily in the Northeast.

This is important since these subsidies have warped the wholesale electricity markets, causing negative pricing in some markets and threatening the closure of lone merchant nuclear power plants that don't, but should, have similar subsidies to renewables.