Example sentences of "the electricity industry " in BNC.
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| 1 | Securing long-term contracts is of critical importance to British Coal , which supplies 75 per cent of its output to the electricity industry . |
| 2 | The prosecution over safety in an Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor , reactors which form part of the electricity industry privatisation , will come as an extra embarrassment to the Government and will further dent City confidence in the value of the nuclear assets . |
| 3 | THE ABILITY of the electricity industry to keep the lights burning once it is privatised was thrown into confusion yesterday . |
| 4 | Listed building procedures might impede the full commercial realisation of the site when the electricity industry is privatised . |
| 5 | Reaffirming the promise to privatise the electricity industry within the life of this Parliament , John Wakeham , Secretary of State for Energy , said competition between generating companies would be a massive incentive to use fuel more efficiently and keep costs down . |
| 6 | Mr Parkinson , after devising the privatisation of the electricity industry , is under pressure to avoid creating a private monopoly with BR services . |
| 7 | After revising its own nuclear liability , BNFL has passed these on to the electricity industry in the form of new fixed price contracts . |
| 8 | In Britain , two months earlier , the government had decided in a last-minute about-turn that its nuclear power stations , once the shining lamps that would light the way to the sustainably developed future , were unsaleable and so would be withdrawn from privatization of the electricity industry . |
| 9 | The army refused to become involved in what it maintained was an ‘ industrial ’ strike and , anyway , it was incapable of running the electricity industry . |
| 10 | LARGE companies are ready to demand the resignation of Prof Stephen Littlechild , the electricity industry regulator , if they fail in a new attempt to gain cheaper electricity . |
| 11 | Prof Stephen Littlechild , the electricity industry regulator , has pressured the companies into changes following complaints from electricity distributors and major energy users . |
| 12 | But as ENDS magazine pointed out , by February 1990 the electricity industry had committed itself to only one third of this : 4,000 MW of FGD . |
| 13 | The Financial Times Survey of the Electricity Industry noted : ‘ The British government and the generators are retreating from their commitment to the European Commission to put sulphur-scrubbing flue gas desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on 12,000MW of coal-fired plant in England and Wales at a cost of £2bn . ’ |
| 14 | We have privatised British Gas and the electricity industry in a way that has opened these markets to competition . |
| 15 | But it was also clear that the longer the inquiry went on , the more it would coincide with the growing national debate about the government 's proposals to privatize the electricity industry . |
| 16 | With the national debate over the proposals to privatize the electricity industry gathering steam we knew how important it was that it did n't fade away . |
| 17 | The increased competition from imported coal which the proposed privatization of the electricity industry was expected to unleash would also force down the price of British mined coal — most of which is used in CEGB power stations . |
| 18 | With the electricity industry about to be privatized there should also be new competition in fuel supplies . |
| 19 | Feickert showed how , since the early 1980s , financial support had been steadily removed from coal mining , most recently , he argued , to pay for the losses on nuclear power and to ‘ fatten up ’ the electricity industry in advance of its sale . |
| 20 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 21 | Coal demand is likely to fall by some 10% from loss of heating and industrial sales , balanced by some increase in supplies to the electricity industry . |
| 22 | The committee also recommended that the government clarify the rules covering the supply of heat and energy so that anyone planning a CHP scheme would not need to carry out long negotiations with the electricity industry . |
| 23 | The electricity industry has an extra desire : to switch consumers ' equipment on and off from a central point . |
| 24 | The electricity industry does not intend to make a habit of cutting off people 's lights , cookers or television . |
| 25 | Dunn , which is based in Burton-on-Trent , specialises in maintenance work in the electricity industry . |
| 26 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 27 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 28 | The control of the grid is vital to the operation of the electricity industry , and the decision was also seen as being a good indication of the . |
| 29 | Despite the moves outlined above , the need for regulation in the electricity industry remains of crucial importance . |
| 30 | None the less the electricity industry was fortunate compared with , for example , the coal industry , where politics had long bedevilled management relations with both government and workers , and nationalisation led to the departure of senior managers in larger numbers . |