Sentence examples for ordered power from inspiring English sources
The commission ordered power companies to file new reports with more complete information.
The energy regulator has ordered power generator Drax to pay a record £28m for failing to help thousands of deprived households save money on their electricity bills.
Since mid-December, the federal Energy Department has ordered power generators and natural gas producers to sell surplus supplies to California, despite the multibillion-dollar backlog of debt and financial uncertainty of the state's two major investor-owned utilities.
The action comes a week after Massachusetts, under Gov. Paul Cellucci, announced an agreement with older power plants to cut emissions, and seven months after Gov. George E. Pataki ordered power plants in New York State to sharply cut smokestack emissions.
Following David Cameron's intervention last year, when he ordered power companies to simplify their tariffs to just four, this week British Gas launched "tariff check", which will tell customers every six months how much they could save by switching to a different tariff while still remaining with British Gas.
In March, it ordered power generators to pay refunds if their prices exceeded the cost of the least efficient generator in California, but only during so-called Stage 3 emergencies in the state, when supplies fell to within 1.5percentt of demand.
A month later, Gov. George E. Pataki of New York, a Republican, said he would order power plants in New York to reduce smokestack emissions drastically.
On September 9th, N.R.C. staff people suggested ordering power plants to review their ability to survive quakes and floods "without unnecessary delay".
The new body would oversee large energy consumers limiting their consumption and would order power stations to increase their output to try to prevent energy shortages.
Doing so would allow city and state agencies, like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to order power from a variety of sources west of the Hudson.
Resolving that mess required Mr. Fluckiger's boss at the Independent System Operator to go behind Gov. Davis's back and ask federal regulators to order power producers to send electricity to California.
