Sentence examples for utility monopoly from inspiring English sources
The area's giant utility monopoly was looking to set up shop less than a half-mile from his house.
Under the old system, a local utility monopoly built and owned both the power plants and the wires in a region.
Italy is reluctant to lose control of companies deemed strategic, and the companies are not all as financially strong as Enel, the former utility monopoly.
JOEL N. GORDES of Colebrook still has a copy of a letter he wrote to a state newspaper in 1981 about the need to break up the electric utility monopoly in Connecticut.
The recent fight over the aluminum industry has been widely depicted as a clash between two clans -- one including Mr. Berezovsky and his ally Roman Abramovich, and the other including Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate and ally of Anatoly B. Chubais, the former Kremlin aide, head of Russia's electrical utility monopoly, and an honorary oligarch.
Given the changing landscape, some suggest expanding retail choice, arguing that the utility monopoly model is stifling progress and innovation, and slowing the transition to a cleaner energy future.
Now there are generous ones, backed by laws requiring TEPCO and the other utility monopolies to purchase spare electricity produced by outsiders.
Essentially, deregulation in Texas split utility monopolies and encouraged competition between power generation plants and also between companies that sell electricity to consumers.
Solar photovoltaic power would give America the potential to challenge the utility monopolies, democratize energy generation and transform millions of homes and small businesses into energy generators.
Congress is considering legislation supported by utility monopolies in the Southeast that would further delay efforts by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to develop and enforce such rules.
These plans, if passed by Congress, would produce greater regulation of the grid than existed in the days of utility monopolies, but politics have stymied their progress.
