Sentence examples for utility sought from inspiring English sources

Each local utility sought to be largely self-sufficient, buying and selling small surpluses.

On its Web site, however, the utility sought to carve out nearly one-fourth of the total, roughly 17,500 customers, who the utility contended were "currently unable to safely receive power without customer repairs".

The utility seeks to stitch together electronic platforms that stretch from traders' desks, through confirmation, to storing records of derivative contracts until they expire.DTCC's prevalence has led to concerns that putting so much global information into storage in America may one day make the industry subject to American regulation, no matter where trades take place.

During the 1990s, a broadband utility seeking to lay fiber optic cable paid the town to pass through the former corridor.

While the mountaintop removal method of mining has been around since the late 1960's, it became common in West Virginia in the 1990's as utilities sought to meet the demand for clean-burning, low-sulfur coal to fuel electric-generating plants.

Italy is the latest battleground for European utilities seeking new sources of income.

The UK assets would provide a ready platform for those utilities seeking to enter the UK market.

Since then the states and the commission have been at odds (egged on at times by utilities seeking to protect their monopoly status) over their regulatory roles.

Those would include Chinese provinces eager to buy wind equipment, European municipalities upgrading their water purification equipment and utilities seeking new power storage systems, he said.

The privatisation of Britain's electricity industry created tasty morsels for American utilities seeking a less onerous regulatory environment than their own.

The decision this month by a federal regulatory judge that California utilities had been overcharged by $1.8 billion bolstered the case of Northwest utilities seeking refunds, officials of those utilities said.