Sentence examples for unregulated power from inspiring English sources

By using cash, partly generated by its sister utility, to buy unregulated power plants in the Northeast, expand trading-floor operations and sell power across the country.

Genteel voices scorned these upstarts as "the vomit of the saloons" -- but they forced such issues as the right to strike and the unregulated power of railroad companies onto the political agenda.

Sempra Energy said yesterday that second-quarter profit fell 20percentt as earnings from unregulated power sales dropped and the company, under a regulatory agreement, had to give utility customers more savings from a 1998 merger that created Sempra.

Correction: May 2 , 2001 Wednesday A headline on Monday with the continuation of a front-page article about the growth of unregulated power generation and trading businesses like those owned by the PG&E Corporation misstated the company's financial condition.

It is largely these unregulated power producers and traders whose sales of power in California have prompted accusations by state leaders of price gouging, and demands for the price caps that federal regulators took their first, halting steps toward embracing last week.

While about half the states have passed retail deregulation laws -- many of which will not become effective for several years -- there is an active wholesale market for electricity across the nation, and unregulated power generators have broken ground for new plants in many states.

Unregulated power-generation assets, including many wind farms, have no caps on their profits.

Yesterday, the Constellation Energy Group said it would cancel a plan to split off its unregulated power-marketing business and break an agreement that called for Goldman to invest $250 million in the new operation.

The unregulated power-generating unit filed for bankruptcy in December.

Mr. Papandreou added: "An elected government, making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets, powers which go beyond those of any individual government".

It reflected a book-learned view of unregulated market power which failed to ring her alarm bells as Scargill's primitive notions of class struggle did, and was just as naïve.