There are certainly similarities with the USA - with its central power over economics and common foreign policy.
Pressure groups also check excessive central power and give governments expert advice.
Demand response (DR) encompasses programs that pay consumers money to stop using electricity provided by the central power grid during periods of peak demand or system contingencies.
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It's far more efficient than most national electricity grids, which rely on large central power stations to send electricity exclusively in one direction from the power stations to the final customer.
Related problems were evidenced by the closures of central power plants across Europe during the heat wave of 2003 because river water temperatures rose to levels where cooling was not possible or environmentally acceptable.
Ron Morano, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power and Light, where essentially all of its 1.1 million customers lost power, said the company was looking at ideas that include putting some sub stations underground and more aggressive tree-trimming.
But Lula has to contend with his own political and ethnic uprisings (legitimately resisting central government power, in some cases).
Central electric power plants, in particular, are highly dependent on vast quantities of cooling water that will become scarcer under climate change.
The Kempton Agassi and Huber proposals have this in common: They take advantage of the fact that energy bought from a central station power plant is cheaper than energy bought from a gasoline pump.
National currencies are backed by national treasuries with the power to tax and central banks with the power to print money.
Green programs in place at the school include a renewable energy program courtesy of Central Vermont Cow Power yes, cow power.
For solar energy, according to the report, the near-term goal is for solar electricity to be competitive with retail electricity rates, with a long-term goal to compete with central fossil fuel power plants.
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More than a year ago Hanke explained that Brazil's Plano Real, which pegged its currency to the dollar, dangerously quashed free market forces by giving the central bank the power to set both the exchange rate and monetary policies.
Due to large overcapacity in power generation, the central hydroelectric, nuclear and fossil-fired power stations are now competing in a free market.
Air power and sea power are central to its plans for preserving U.S. presence in the Pacific.
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The bill is intended to shift power from central government back into the hands of individuals, communities and councils.
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In the eyes of the markets (and most politicians), the central bank has the power to make or break the Euro.
As in all of the Dardennes' films, there's the sense of a soul at risk, and a central performance of exceptional power.
All three parties want to transfer power from central to local government, for example, but only the Lib Dems support a local income tax.
But she is firmly positioned on the other axis that runs through Spanish politics, the balance of power between central government and the regions.
Such strains would have tested any country, let alone a small one with a violent history, a population made up of 18 jealous religious minorities and a weak central state built on power-sharing between them.
She possessed the certainties of a tabloid newspaper editor, and her eagerness to see the power of central government reduced even made her a heroine to some of today's Tea Party enthusiasts in the United States.
His remedy is to take spending power from central government and put it firmly in the hands of patients and parents, who will be free to buy whatever health care and schooling they want from a variety of eagerly competing providers.
The bill intends to devolve power away from central government to local councils and neighbourhoods.
Mr Cameron and his allies are keen on pushing power away from central government.
They want more concessions, including greater power for the central government.
Yemen, in the same way, has seen recent domestic turmoil and has long had a central government whose hold on power has been questionable and which could be considered highly vulnerable on many fronts.
Three years later, a coalition government of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had also put Hindutva on its central agenda, came into power in Maharashtra to rule for the next five years.
Jim Murphy, a Scottish Labour MP and the shadow defence secretary, wants the central party to devolve more power to the Scottish party, just as executive power was transferred when Tony Blair's government set up the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
The European Central Bank's offer to buy unlimited quantities of the bonds of governments that have requested support from the euro zone's bailout funds has already eased fears of a euro break-up, serving as a reminder that it is always a mistake to underestimate the power of a central bank.
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