Sentence examples for power squeeze from inspiring English sources
The weekend eased the summer power squeeze, a pinch caused by the loss of the two generators totaling 1,265,000 kilowatts.
The gap between CPI inflation and earnings is likely to widen over the coming months, with dearer food and energy bills intensifying the purchasing power squeeze.
The power squeeze has been getting steadily worse as coal, nuclear and gas plants have been retired owing to age or environmental legislation.
Most experts suggest that the power squeeze in the city will continue for several summers, until new plants are built or alternative power sources become available.
And companies like Enernoc, based in Boston, have sprung up that help utilities by outfitting stores and other businesses with devices to turn off lights or reduce power in other ways during a power squeeze.
When the electric power squeeze hit California last month, he said, "The quickest way to have impact on the energy situation is for us to work with Mexico, and a certain extent Canada, to build a policy for the hemisphere".
Electricity generated from wind or sun still generally costs more -- and sometimes a lot more -- than the power squeezed from coal or natural gas.
They complained that the giants were abusing their market power, squeezing suppliers too hard and selling goods at a loss to drive mom-and-pop stores off the high street.
Retailers are suffering as households have seen their spending power squeezed by rising inflation as a result of the drop in the value of the pound following the Brexit vote.
Although observing that the inherent power "is not a broad reservoir of power, ready at an imperial hand, but a limited source; an implied power squeezed from the need to make the court function," id., at 702, the court also concluded that the District Court did not abuse its discretion in awarding to NASCO the fees and litigation costs paid to its attorneys.
"Its the fact that consumers' purchasing power, squeezed by rising inflation, has come at the same time that labor markets have tightened across Europe, giving workers more bargaining power," said Global Insight's chief European economist, Howard Archer.
