Some completed projects lie idle waiting for officials to sign off on an all-important detail allowing a power station to procure coal from a particular mine, for instance.
The following extract of a letter in a Bremen paper, translated into the Leeds Mercury, accurately expresses the very general feeling in Germany on this subject:—"There is scarcely any country in the world that possesses such a power as Germany to procure a great sale of the products of its industry.
Hegesias, like Theodorus, doubted the power of reason to procure pleasures and so advised avoidance of pain; much pain of mind could be avoided by regarding such things as poverty and riches, slavery and freedom, death and life as matters of indifference.
The word "poligarch" combines "political" and "oligarchy"; the poligarchs are first endowed with political power, which they use to procure material wealth.
But installation and service companies represented by the alliance say the best way to promote clean power in Europe is to procure commodity products like panels from China and from other low-cost manufacturers.
Cash-strapped power generators lack funds to procure the fuel needed to run plants at full capacity, leading to perpetual outages.
To improve navigation and to procure hydroelectric power, France (by the Treaty of Versailles) obtained the right to divert Rhine water below Basel into a canal that was to rejoin the Rhine at Strasbourg.
On Thursday, the police came again for Mr. Mangoma, the minister of energy and power development, who now stands accused of criminal abuse of office in a deal to procure fuel — charges he denied through his lawyer.
"If successful, these programs will be world leaders in climate action and green-power development," said Paul Fenn, the chief executive of a San Francisco-based company, Local Power Inc., who wrote the original 2002 legislation that opened the door for local communities to procure their own power.
