Sentence examples for pay power from inspiring English sources

Across Europe a strange consequence of subsidised renewables is that some governments now want to pay power companies to maintain the capacity to produce electricity from fossil fuels to ensure that backup power is available.

Sexual harassment is a deliberate, noxious policy of making life so uncomfortable for a female colleague that she is forced to leave (as in Sutherland's case), or it prevents her from getting increased pay, power and responsibility.

[C8.] U.S. to Pay Power Company The federal government promised to pay at least $300 million in damages to Exelon for a failure to accept nuclear waste for burial.

The UK's electricity system operator spent £122m on supplemental balancing reserve contracts, which pay power plants to be on standby in case of outages elsewhere or a sudden surge in demand.

Failure to reform the Commons, meanwhile, led directly to the expenses scandal: the culture of "allowances" was a substitute for cutting the numbers and increasing the pay, power and independence of fewer MPs in charge of independent scrutiny committees.

Put bluntly, Miliband simply does not have the money to pay power companies to build the carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipment he has demanded to trap and bury some of the emissions from the new plant.

Clients pay Powered $25,000 to $100,000 to design their "school" sites, and a minimum of $200,000 per year for Powered to play host to the sites.

As Ukraine's deputy premier since December 1999, she portrayed herself as a valiant reformer, blasting the "criminal oligarchic clans" in the energy sector and pushing controversial programs to get major customers to pay power-generating companies in taxable cash rather than with more common barter deals.

The United States Court of Appeals in Washington rejected an attempt by Southern California Edison to force the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to limit the wholesale prices that it pays power producers for electricity.

Utilities are currently allowed to charge consumers about 7 cents a kilowatt-hour, although they have been paying power producers an average of 35 cents.

But paying power companies – many of which are from the big six energy firms that have been criticised for the scale of their retail profits – will be unpopular when some consumers are already struggling to pay their energy bills.