Iberdrola has interests in seven nuclear power plants in Spain, while its subsidiary Scottish Power and SSE, formerly known as Scottish Hydro, are the main customer power supply companies in Scotland.

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Phone service from cable companies is also dependent on power, but most companies supply backup batteries to power the phones for some hours in an outage.

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The power and utility companies like to have control over the power supply and control over the transmission lines.

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That would force power companies to take more of their supply from green energy sources, like wave and tidal power.

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Companies who want to supply their own renewable power for their data centers also face hurdles, said Tazbaz.

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But companies like these have an excess of commercial power in their particular supply chain that shifts business risks, like the non-availability of goods on a production line, to a supplier without shifting the associated profit.

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At the end, geothermal energy companies want California regulators to assign higher values to the steady supply of power they could generate, speed up the permitting process, and promote more transmission line construction to transport geothermal energy from more remote corners of the state to towns and cities.

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Power companies have been reluctant to make a larger commitment to natural gas because of worries about supply and price volatility.

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In its quest for more power, Pakistan has recently signed memorandums of understanding with companies that will build enough facilities to supply 10, 000 megawatts of electricity.

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