Advocates are concerned that if the prices for oil and gas keep falling, the incentive for utilities and consumers to buy expensive renewable energy will shrink.

支持者担心如果原油和天然气价格持续下跌，公用事业和消费者购买昂贵的可再生能源的刺激因素将会收缩。

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Dong, which began as a North Sea oil and gas company before buying the country's electricity utilities, trades on its green image in a country that likes to be thought of as green.

在购买该国电力设施之前，东能源公司的前身是北海石油和天然气公司。它利用其在喜欢标榜自己是绿色的国家中的绿色形象做交易。

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But if you pay them first, you'll make sure you still pay your rent or mortgage, utilities, groceries and gas... so you'll just cut back on other spending.

如果你先存款和还贷，由于你会确保有钱付房租或房贷、电费、生活日用品和汽油…你的其他开销自然而然减少了。

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Electric and natural gas utilities that provide partial (or full) service to consumers are heavily regulated by government agencies, which set the price utilities charge customers for electric and gas service, the terms of that service, capital budgets and construction plans and so forth.

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Obviously, some industries generate more data than others like Telco, Retail, Oil and Gas and Utilities, for instance.

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Once upon a time, gas and electric utilities could predictably operate with secure profit margins in a monopolistic environment, with steady revenue streams, and readily obtainable rate hikes to assure financial strength.

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