Other companies have faced attacks by mobs, whipped up, many believe, by local power brokers.
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If it behaved responsibly, the world would naturally look to it as the local power.
And he said the schemes were identifying barriers to local power which could be removed.
" One big reason is some local power companies give consumers cash incentives to use "alternative energies.
As industrial customers haggled and defected, local power firms were forced to raise more revenues from householders.
Detroit Edison, a local power company, is laying 400 metres of these cables.
His example shows how deeply Pakistani politics is rooted in local power struggles.
IR You assert that central power stations would lose out to small local power producers in a free market without subsidies.
Local power-brokers have pushed their favourites, thwarting the wishes of many voters and creating rifts within most of the parties.
The Baillie of Spynie, John Innes, a local power-broker signed her up.
Lastly, some of you have been asking if the local power company will replace the contents of freezers due to power supplies being cut?
Across the South, African Americans were systematically disenfranchised and subject to political violence condoned, if not actively supported, by local power structures and state governments.
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There's a tractor-trailer overturned near a tree, and the only upright and functioning truck on this road is driven by men from the local power cooperative.
He would then be able to maximise the benefit when his local power company started charging him a different rate for different times of the day.
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He used his considerable local power to build wide, tree-lined streets, a fancy new city auditorium and a magnificent, colorfully lit Prismatic Electric Fountain in the city's Ferril Lake.
But this may soon change dramatically because the Sunnis are set to contest provincial elections due on January 31st, when they may well oust the Kurds from local power.
With much local power at stake in the concurrent provincial-council elections, it seems likely that there will be pressure on the insurgents to refrain from attacks on polling stations.
First, it does not always work: the Kremlin has come badly unstuck several times when it has stepped into regional elections, only to find itself outmanoeuvred by local power-brokers.
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As I have written before, the political and economic reality is East Asia is that China has become the dominant local power, and its relative dominance grows by the year.
Today, many people say that local power struggles, a poor economic climate and elements of basic banditry are fueling the simmering insurgency in Dagestan, apart from grander Islamist or separatist aims.
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In the tribal world of Chechen politics, people tend to have local power bases (Mr Kadyrov's was his home village of Tsentoroi, Mr Saidullaev's is the town of Alkan-Yurt) but often lack wider support.
My gut feeling is that there will be a few problems--some local power stations will go offline, some old mainframes will go goofy and maybe, with luck, the IRS will freeze up for a few days.
C. startup trying to build microgrids in the U.S. A city with robust microgrids could break this 15 percent barrier by giving neighborhoods and utilities the flexibility to supply, store, and use local power in several ways.
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The report concludes the vote was a "cry for help" from a largely forgotten constituency suffering numerous social problems, and the by-election was an "opportunity to strike a blow against a local power structure that was widely disliked".
Even though the Graphics Core Next GPUs have been slightly underclocked to 825MHz, and even though they technically offer better performance per watt than a single-GPU configuration, their overall 375w power draw could still get you in trouble with your local power station.
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This could be a pretty robust process, given the kicking given to the bill in the Second Reading Debate on 7 June, when some peers clearly thought the bill didn't go far enough in promoting local power while others feared a massive infringement over property rights.
"These very large corporations are recognizing the power of these words the power of local and the power of farmer and are trying to co-opt them, " said Michael Pollan, who has written several books about sustainable eating.
The effect of local veto power has recently come under fire after a series of local projects were halted after years of delays.
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But it warned that giving local authorities power over promotions in individual stores could damage competition and cost customers more.
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