Sentence examples for persuade energy from inspiring English sources

After all, it was the government that worked hard to persuade energy firms to risk investing in one of the world's most volatile and corrupt countries.

In a separate statement yesterday, Fitch said it was not clear whether Enron would be able to find the assets it would need to secure enough financing to persuade energy traders to resume doing business with it.

Putting a price on emissions of CO2 that reflects the burden they impose on the environment and the threat excessive amounts pose to future generations would almost certainly be the most effective strategy to persuade energy companies, power generators — and you and me — to spew less of it.

Hydrocar vendors must somehow persuade energy companies and governments to rebuild the world's energy infrastructure.

Activists in the Coal River area of West Virginia have taken those numbers to heart and found that wind is a better investment than coal, even in their necks of the woods where they are trying to persuade Massey Energy to forgo a MTR site for wind.

They have persuaded an energy veteran, John Gilleland, to run the company; he employs about 60 people and is laying plans to build a prototype reactor.

Bankers are accustomed to packaging mortgage debt, but had yet to be persuaded that energy retrofit loans could be securitized in the same way.

Ben Inker, director of asset allocation at the fund manager GMO, also would expect airlines to gain from cheaper oil, as well as auto manufacturers — shares in both groups soared this week — but because of the precarious state of those sectors, he said he would need to be persuaded that energy costs were headed lower and were likely to remain there.

The scheme's failure to persuade households that energy efficiency measures were worth paying for meant it cost the taxpayer £17,000 per loan plan, the report said.

WHEN BP's Macondo well began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the firm was in the midst of an effort to persuade Canada's energy regulator that safety standards for offshore drilling in the Canadian Arctic were expensive, impractical and should be relaxed.

Last year, the government changed its plan for a green levy on the industry in order to persuade the major energy companies to reduce proposed increases in tariffs.