Customers have no incentive to conserve power when it is scarce during times of peak demand, so generating firms have to build lots of spare capacity to cope with surges in consumption.

未将零售价与供求关系挂钩，就无法在负荷达到峰值、电量稀缺时激励用户节约用电，所以发电厂不得不留出大量的闲置产能以防用电量的激增。

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Most utilities have an incentive to sell as much power as they can, dirty or clean.

大多数的公用事业公司都尽可能地销售能源，而不管其是清洁的或是污染严重的。

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Now that Mr Bush has discovered the power of the veto pen, he sees little incentive to keep it in the inkwell.

既然布什先生已经发现了否决权的威力，他看来不会轻易放手了。

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This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.

ECONOMIST: Charge ahead

She argues that these results were not caused by the low-power volunteers being less motivated, as they had the same financial incentive as the high-power volunteers to do well.

ECONOMIST: Cognitive disenhancement

At the moment there is no money and little incentive to build new power stations.

BBC: Q&A: British Energy's crisis