Sentences with phrase «much power these companies»

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I used a power meter that plugs into an outlet to figure out how much electricity my rigs were using while mining, and I checked my bill to see how much my electricity company charges per month.

Many times, the parent company's tremendous buying power and special buying techniques can bring products, equipment and outside services to the licensee at a much lower cost than an independent could ever get.

Just consider the electrical costs by calculating how much power your PC uses and how much your electricity company charges.

The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The Japanese group said cost overruns at U.S. power projects handled by the CB&I Stone & Webster Inc business it acquired last December from Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV (CB&I) would be much greater than initially expected, potentially requiring a huge writedown.

Another problem: Tesla's cars can power up at a much higher voltage than electric cars from competing car companies, and its charging stations are geared to that higher capacity.

Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.

Some analysts have warned that CBS could be better off alone and that the companies» content is too different to easily add much negotiating power.

The British Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally nixed 21st Century Fox's $ 26 billion takeover of media company Sky, saying it may not be in the public interest as it would put too much power in Rupert Murdoch's hands.

Australia's competition watchdog believes the planned global merger of oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes could give the combined group, and current market leader Schlumberger, too much power.

But the current system is out of balance, with too much power tipping «toward biggest companies with the most influence... They're disrupting our democracy.»

Fred Gehring, the chief executive of Tommy Hilfiger, a client, said Li & Fung had so much buying power that it extracted better deals from factories than his company could if it dealt with them directly.

The suppliers have little bargaining power to begin with; there is not much profit left to squeeze out of them by being an even larger athletic shoe company.

But the current system is out of balance, with too much power tipping «toward (the) biggest companies with the most influence... They're disrupting our democracy.»

Doing so would be a significant achievement for a tech company the size of Google, whose massive data centers power much of the internet.

Tony understands the power of the DISC personality assessment as a valuable tool for bettering your self - understanding, so much so that he asks his own employees to use it when they're hired at his company.

Some feel companies like ISS and Glass Lewis wield too much power and have too much influence.

The entity that pays for the drugs, the insurance company, only has a say in how much it will pay to the distributor of the drugs, meaning it has little power with the drug manufacturers.

Ultimately Facebook's scandal is about how much the company knows about its users and how much power those users then have to control how Facebook applies (or shares) its knowledge.

The fact and the matter is I had too much of Power Corp ever since I started buying its Power Financial company, which is 66 % own by POW.

It's especially hard to defend this line of thinking now that big tech companies have attracted so much soft power they can influence elections, inflame conflicts and divide people in general.

Yet, in such companies, the problem is not that one person holds both posts; the problem is that the independent members of the board of directors have delegated to much power to the Chairman.

But then in August, DJ Koh, the president of the company's mobile division confirmed to CNBC that a smart speaker was indeed in the works, but did not provide much details, like whether or not Samsung's voice assistant Bixby would power the device.

«It grows earnings not so much by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years) using high - powered, high P / E multiple GE stock or cheap near Treasury Bill yielding commercial paper.

The president has said the merger would concentrate too much market power in one company.

The powers conveyed by Bill 12 are much broader than that: since these proposed licenses could be instituted such that they are only required by certain firms, the Minister could stipulate that a particular oil company was no longer able to export crude - by - rail (the method of export) to BC (the point of export), for example.

Again, I'm not predicting regulators will strip Wynn of his gaming license, but in a highly regulated environment, when one man holds so much power in a company, these are consequences investors need to consider.

Moody's chief economist, who helps compile the data, noted that the US labour market continues to power ahead, and job creation was strong across nearly all industries and company sizes, adding «mounting labour shortages are set to get much worse» in the months ahead.

Yesterday, Apollo Power (TASE: APLP) became the latest stock market company in Israel to announce that it was looking to become active in cryptocurrencies - an announcement that sent the company's share price rocketing by as much as 150 % in the course of yesterday's session.

However, JD Power's latest survey of customer satisfaction with 27 major mortgage servicers showed that Capital One received a much better rating than any of the big three banks, landing it in the top four mortgage companies in this area.

Reduced pricing power, combined with the eventual end of its federal tax credit, will make the company's already precarious path to profitability that much more difficult.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk stood in front of a gathered crowd of several hundred people yesterday to unveil his latest, much - ballyhooed vision for the future: a world powered by his company's solar roofs, with a Powerwall 2 battery on the wall and a Tesla automobile in the driveway.

Globalization of the world economy became much more intense in the 1990s, and American companies lost pricing power.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange CoPower Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange Copower plant in Orange County.

Workers representatives say the proposed changes put too much power in the hands of company - assigned doctors rather than those chosen by the injured workers.

«In total, the Power Holding Company of Nigeria was split into six generation and 11 distribution firms, all sold separately, for about $ 2.5 billion for which the Jonathan administration received much deserved praise.

Much of that came just before Cuomo took office, and the company was preparing to seek state approvals for its Hudson Valley power plant.

The company said it was losing too much money operating the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County and had failed to persuade state officials to provide adequate help.

7.18 pm: Huhne says it is a «myth» that all power companies charge the same and one can't save much money switching between them.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

It also lets the power authority determine how much more work to give the company, which would hand off many of the jobs to subcontractors.

He calculates that storing the output of just his local utility company, Nova Scotia Power, for 24 hours would take the energy storage capacity of every battery made worldwide this year — and then half as much again.

To examine coal: It provides 60 percent of India's power and just one government - owned company, Coal India, is responsible for much of the country's supply.

But such a power plant — and Murphy says the company has some 50 such projects in the pipeline and expects at least one (in the U.S. or Spain) to be operating by 2013 — would cost as much as $ 800 million for a 200 - megawatt power tower.

The company's latest test flight was much more successful, powering to Mach 3 speeds and reaching a height of 93.6 kilometres.

He supported Trump because he wants to get rid of Obamacare, which he, like his father, sees as giving too much power to the insurance companies.

The company that operates the state's power grid has a contingency plan in case of emergency shutdowns, says Dorothy Schnure, a spokesperson for Green Mountain Power, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont Yapower grid has a contingency plan in case of emergency shutdowns, says Dorothy Schnure, a spokesperson for Green Mountain Power, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont YaPower, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont Yapower from Vermont Yankee.

«The power of people collaborating is so much bigger than [that of] a small company hiring people to do the job,» Bourgeois says.

In the UK, carbon pricing — charging those who emit carbon dioxide — has become much stronger in recent years, making it more profitable for power companies to use natural gas generation rather than coal.