Sentence examples for owned power from inspiring English sources

Most of the power lines now in service were built by monolithic utilities that owned power plants, transmission and distribution.

A plan to raise 50 billion euros by 2015 by privatizing the publicly owned power and train companies has been a bitter disappointment.

Most electricity is provided through the Electricity Supply Commission (ESKOM), a national parastatal institution; privately owned power stations also provide some electricity to the city.

There are more than a hundred publicly and privately owned power companies that operate their own lines, with separate computer systems and separate security arrangements.

The most controversial activity of the TVA is the production and sale of electric power, which has been resisted by privately owned power companies.

The biggest of these is a $10bn deal for Britain's BP to supply China's state owned power station, Huadian, with liquefied natural gas.

State-owned power companies have been similarly resistant.

But entrenched interests like state-owned power companies have fought against any such bureaucratic entity.

State-owned power companies have been building enormous wind turbines up and down the coast.

Investor-owned power utilities have long complained that municipal power companies and RECs have a big advantage, because they have access to cheap money and pay few taxes.

Public transport workers went for months without pay, and coal companies have restricted credit to state-owned power plants.