Sentence examples for utility has spent from inspiring English sources

So far, the utility has spent just over $20 million acquiring property in the lakeside community surrounding Kingston Fossil Plant.

UtiliCorp United, a Kansas City utility, has spent some $20m during the past two years trying to build the "EnergyOne" brand for its electricity, with little success.

The French head of Vivendi Universal, the consumer-media group he has built up on the foundations of a 150-year-old water and waste-treatment utility, has spent the past year on a breathless American acquisition spree.

This year alone, Con Edison officials said, the utility has spent $483 million repairing and upgrading cable lines, transformers, substations and other components of its distribution system, all part of a five-year, $2.4 billion capital improvement project the company agreed to in 1999 after widespread criticism over the Washington Heights blackout.

Since the San Bruno explosion, the utility has "spent or committed" $2.8 billion of shareholder money on natural gas safety measures.

'Our banks have spent £1 billion, utilities have spent £170m and telecoms have spent £500m on millennium compliance.

Since last spring, California's two biggest utilities have spent $12 billion more for power than they have collected from ratepayers.

Since October 2000, American oil and gas producers and power utilities have spent more than $20 billion buying companies in Canada.

So far, according to state records, utilities have spent about $27 million, mostly on television advertisements opposing the measure.

This is partly because many American utilities have spent a lot of money in recent years installing meters that can transmit readings by radio, but have none of the other bells and whistles of smart meters.

Utilities had spent decades fruitlessly attempting ways to provide data to homes and businesses over their ubiquitous wires.