Sentence examples for utility has bought from inspiring English sources

(p25) Enel, the Italian state-owned utility has bought telecoms group Infostrada for £6.6bn.

Centrica, a British gas utility, has bought Enron Direct, which sells gas and electricity to 160,000 small and medium-sized customers in Britain, for $137m.

E.ON, a big German utility, has bought 47% of another wholesaler, OGK-4, and plans to raise its stake to 70%.

The Spanish utility has bought a number of wind-farm operations in the United States over the past year in line with its strategy to expand its renewable-energy business.

French, German and Spanish utilities have bought British electricity and water firms and sometimes sold them to each other.

Mr. Mazzilli works for Unin Fenosa, a Spanish utility that has bought big stakes in telecommunications operators and is now looking to do the same in Internet start-ups.

In California, the water utility of Los Angeles has bought water rights from farmers in Imperial County.

His father has replaced the golf cart he drove around his farm with a Kubota utility vehicle, while his mother has bought a flat-screen television.

In a move highlighting the growing importance of electric charging stations to utilities, Italian power giant Enel has bought a small, fast-growing California developer of charging stations and power management software.

Several legislators requested that the commission review Con Ed's plans to begin charging customers an estimated $3 a month for the cost of power Con Ed has bought from other utilities since Indian Point 2 was shut after a leak on Feb. 15.

Mr. Vallone said Con Ed, working in consort with the utilities that have bought its New York City plants, might be using power disruptions to put pressure on regulators to approve construction of a new electrical power plant in the city.