And because many of Japan's largest banks hold shares in Tokyo Electric, they have already taken a direct hit from the utility's difficulties.
July is when demand for power reaches its peak, and the utility's difficulty during last week's heat indicated that it may have trouble meeting its customers' needs without the electricity provided by Millstone.
And of course, monopolies matter.Unfortunately you failed to deal with areas where competition cannot work, and where there is a choice between government run operations, with inadequate incentives for efficiency, or regulated public utilities with difficulties.
In many developing countries due to lack of infrastructure the utilities experience difficulties in monitoring their customers' demand or time of use of electricity and hence it is very difficult to apply DSM (demand-side management) programs for peak shifting.
Due to its utility and the difficulties mentioned before, innumerable methods to compare and align protein structures have been developed, e.g., DALI [14], SSAP [24], MAMMOTH [25], CE [26], COMPARER [27], FATCAT [28] and Matt [29].
The municipally owned water and electric utility encountered financial difficulty when it was unable to sell surplus power from its share of an electric generating plant bought in 1981.
Mr. Izzo said he did not expect his utility to have difficulty issuing bonds in the shaky debt markets, and added that the price of installing the panels — about $6.44 for each watt produced — was far lower than just a few years ago.
As students process these tasks, they develop beliefs about their importance, utility, value, and difficulty.
Underlying increased dis-utility were greater difficulties in independent living (particularly requiring help with household tasks) and psychological well-being (as influenced by pain, discomfort and difficulty sleeping).
The number of tests required for the study to achieve 95% confidence and 80% power was calculated using the variable cardiac index (for its clinical utility and technical difficulty); 16 tests in each stage of the evaluation were shown to be necessary.
