Sentence examples for utilities trade from inspiring English sources

Still, Ms. Wood said, the utilities trade group would rather see a federal cap on carbon emissions than an array of state standards.

Last year, electric utilities, trade groups and other backers spent $54 million hiring lobbyists, including former members of Congress, to make their case, according to a separate analysis by the Sunlight Foundation, which also tracks money and politics.

The service sector consists of electric utilities, gas utilities, trade, finance and real estate, other private services, and public services in the dataset.

Kuhn, the chief executive of the Edison Electric Institute, the electric utilities trade group, remembers the tumult that accompanied the passage of that 1990 law. "Some of the toughest battles in Washington are the environmental battles," says Kuhn.

The industries we use are construction; manufacturing; trade, transportation, and utilities (trade); natural resources (natural); financial activities (financial); professional and business services (services); education and health services (education); leisure and hospitality (leisure); and government.

When congestions appear in the gas grid, the gas supplied to produce electricity is one of the first candidates to be curtailed because gas transportation companies and generation utilities trade the fuel according to interruptible contracts [9].

Under the old, regulated system, utilities traded electric power in the PJM system and sold it to their customers.

It got the power to share supervision, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, of eight "financial market utilities"—trading markets such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Mr. McCaffree is the manager of the Institute for Electric Efficiency, a utility trade association in Washington that is part of the Edison Foundation.

Carpentry was more of a skilled building industry than a basic utility trade: wood was fundamental to the structure of most housing.

"The court's decision represents a major setback for federal efforts to establish clear mercury regulations for coal-fired power plants," Dan Riedinger of the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group, said in a statement.