noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an electric/electricity cable
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Be careful you don't cut through an electric cable.
an electricity/gas/phone etc bill
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I’ll have to pay the gas bill too next month.
fuel/electricity/gas consumption
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There are three possible methods of reducing oil consumption.
run on electricity/gas/petrol etc (= get its power from electricity etc )
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Most cars run on unleaded fuel.
static electricity
water/gas/electricity meter
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A man came to read the electricity meter .
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The taxi driver left the meter running while I ran in to pick up my bags.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheap
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Even if wages are relatively cheap , electricity is not.
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Then came cheap oil, electricity , and the motorized centrifugal pump.
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Consumers can benefit because the heaters then use more of the cheaper off-peak electricity , and less of the expensive kind.
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There are only two barriers to commercial generation of cheap , clean electricity from helium-3 and deuterium.
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It does so using comparatively inexpensive materials, and brings the prospect of obtaining cheap electricity from sunlight a step nearer.
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In 1983 this, the cheapest of all electricity sources, accounted for 75% of energy consumption.
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For a start it is 40 percent cheaper than electricity from the national grid.
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To them, it was axiomatic that prices and interest rates should be kept down to further their objective of cheap electricity .
domestic
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No power station has ever created an electron, the source of our domestic electricity .
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Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years.
local
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Such local network systems would offer higher efficiency and greater local control of electricity , including generation, delivery and use.
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For further details of the services that the fuel industries can provide, contact your local electricity or gas showrooms.
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The local East Midlands electricity board could take power generated at Corby and feed it into the local grid.
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Ask at your local electricity board shop or office for details.
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If you are likely to be disconnected contact your local electricity shop and tell them you are a pensioner.
nuclear
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For the nuclear element in electricity privatisation is the coping stone on which the flotation plans are based.
regional
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I remind my hon. Friend that the regional electricity companies have an obligation to undertake economic purchasing.
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It operates via the regional electricity companies, which must pay a premium price for renewable energy.
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The Office of Electricity Regulation should investigate the preferential contracts between the regional electricity boards and the gas-fired power stations. 3.
static
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One disadvantage, however, is that it acquires static electricity , causing it to pick up dirt easily.
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He felt spooky and luminous, felt as though he were wrapped in cool fur that was full of static electricity .
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There was a crackle of static electricity .
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Cotton sheets breathe, absorb moisture, and create less static electricity , which gives you a more comfortable rest.
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Overhead, lightning flickered frequently as the static electricity accumulating in the ash cloud discharged.
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When his hand touched the elevator signal it touched off the tiniest spark of static electricity .
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Amelia's unsubtle lust for him darted out of her like static electricity .
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It goes without saying that you should practise safe upgrading by observing all precautions to prevent damage by static electricity .
■ NOUN
bill
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On this the farm worker is most scathing: fresh air does not pay his electricity bill .
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Margaret had discovered the address from an electricity bill she had found in the laundry.
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Voice over Okan, a production engineer, has seen his collection of reptiles grow as has his electricity bill .
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People who are behind with their electricity bills could find themselves restricted to a consumption of as little as one kilowatt.
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So lots of tanks, thousands of fish - and huge electricity bills ?
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If you're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day.
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The defence ministry was allocated $ 48m to pay electricity bills .
board
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Education and housing departments, water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work.
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The incentive offered by the electricity boards will be a lower tariff.
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Another 4 percent. are involved in energy and water industries, and we have a regional headquarters of the electricity board .
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The local East Midlands electricity board could take power generated at Corby and feed it into the local grid.
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Ask for details of what is available at your local gas showroom or electricity board shop or their offices.
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Ask at your local electricity board shop or office for details.
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The Office of Electricity Regulation should investigate the preferential contracts between the regional electricity boards and the gas-fired power stations. 3.
company
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It would then switch itself on at a time when the electricity company has agreed it will get the cheapest rate.
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Many do not take full advantage of the various daytime, night and off-peak tariffs on offer from their electricity company .
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Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies , motor manufacturers, circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
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Some electricity companies do free visual wiring checks for elderly or disabled people.
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He will recharge it from his house mains-supplied by a specialist electricity company which generates its power from the wind.
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We will require the gas and electricity companies to invest in insulation and other energy-saving measures.
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They will even phone your gas or electricity company to negotiate repayments.
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It also criticized the electricity companies for failing to take the lead in developing alternative energy sources.
consumption
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Many savings apply to electricity consumption , whether for lighting, instruments and other equipment, for ventilation, and even heating.
demand
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Estimates are that waves could supply up to one fifth of our electricity demand .
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The government hopes that wind power will meet around a tenth of total electricity demand by the year 2000.
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Another is to transport coal slurry by pipeline from mines to power stations situated in areas of high electricity demand .
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Currently 17 percent of the world's electricity demand was met by nuclear power.
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Even electricity demand , which has historically grown faster than total energy demand, decreases in two of the five scenarios.
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Some utilities in the United States had reduced electricity demand by giving low energy light bulbs to poor families.
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This is partly because little new capacity will be needed this century due to the low level of increase in electricity demand .
generation
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While the direct use of fuels for purposes other than electricity generation has gone down, the output of electricity has gone up.
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To assist in the development of alternative forms of non-polluting electricity generation .
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They capture the heat produced in electricity generation and distribute it through underground pipes.
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By then nuclear energy should be contributing more than one-fifth of electricity generation .
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Similarly large investments are also necessary in electricity generation .
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Conventional electricity generation loses to the atmosphere enough heat for the needs of every home, office and factory in the country.
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In the domestic market coal use will be concentrated largely on electricity generation and steel manufacture.
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I am delighted with the progress that we are making in finding new sources of electricity generation .
generator
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Much of the new demand will come from a doubling in the amount of gas consumed by electricity generators .
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Its original plan was to unload the problem on to the electricity generators .
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The two major electricity generators , PowerGen and National Power, declined to comment until they had assessed the white paper.
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Or we could leave it up to the electricity generators to reduce the impact, at the expense of higher bills.
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In 1990, it emerged that he had held discussions about buying PowerGen, the state electricity generator , outright.
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A hotel's conventional boiler for heat production alone usually achieves 70% and standby electricity generators , 50%.
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Motorways, electricity generators , municipal dumps were all subject to kickbacks.
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Whether this is because of the impending General Election, or the impending conclusion of negotiations with electricity generators remain to be seen.
grid
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The power supply will come easily from the electricity grid .
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Labour would also take control of the national electricity grid , making it responsibility for energy saving.
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So also the national electricity grids , when these appeared.
industry
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Of course we should not endlessly meddle and interfere with the electricity industry in Northern Ireland.
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On Jan. 1, California becomes the first state in the nation to introduce competition in the electricity industry .
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Fixing the market through fresh legislation would be seen as a signal that the privatisation of the electricity industry was flawed.
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With the electricity industry about to be privatized there should also be new competition in fuel supplies.
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Moreover, opinion polls suggested that huge majorities opposed the sale of the water and electricity industries .
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Despite the moves outlined above, the need for regulation in the electricity industry remains of crucial importance.
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He added that nevertheless the electricity industry is pursuing its own and funding independent, research.
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Mr. Redwood How do the duopoly policy in telecommunications and the restructuring of the electricity industry fit that picture?
meter
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He admitted stealing £85 from the electricity meter and burglary involving £10.
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Consumers complained about unaffordable debt repayment settings on both gas and electricity meters .
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Hugh was busy telling the assembled how best to fiddle your electricity meter .
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Their invention was an electricity meter controlled by signals from the power company.
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Mr Pat Roberts for installation of a coin operated electricity meter .
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Read in studio A faulty electricity meter is being blamed for starting a house fire which left six people in hospital.
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The electricity meter caught my eye as I came up.
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You need a special electricity meter for this.
price
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In the meantime, electricity prices were gradually raised to nearer long-run costs.
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Taxes were raised on vehicles and electricity prices increased.
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But a 30 % increase in electricity prices was implemented.
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The process would increase electricity prices by 40 percent.
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I do not know how the money would be found, except from higher taxes or higher electricity prices , or both.
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It is no wonder that we receive so few complaining letters about electricity prices these days.
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But, he admitted yesterday that there were only two ways to save the pits - government subsidies or higher electricity prices .
privatisation
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What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation.
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For example, the impact of electricity privatisation is speculative.
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For the nuclear element in electricity privatisation is the coping stone on which the flotation plans are based.
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The electricity privatisation also ran into difficulties over nuclear power stations.
supply
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The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
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After all, what were a theorist's research results worth compared with a lifetime of experience in electricity supply ?
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Within the state sector, the statutory public monopoly of electricity supply and express delivery service has been ended.
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Is there an electricity supply ? 7.
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You will also be instrumental in preparing reports on the effects of immediate and short term changes in electricity supply and demand.
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The electricity supply industry is to be broken up and sold.
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And the corporation often owned the electricity supply as well.
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The company was also legally bound to promote competition in the industry and ensure electricity supplies met standards of supply and quality.
system
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Strange moss-covered devices were relics of the house's first electricity system , run by water.
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Davis wants to shift California back to an electricity system that relies more on government oversight.
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Tidal schemes have the advantage of regularity, an integrated electricity system could organise itself according to high and low water.
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Liberalization of a traditional electricity system creates an entire complex of unfamiliar risks and responsibilities-including the risk of system collapse.
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The reliability of electricity systems has long been both economically and politically essential.
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Liberalization will also change the technical configuration of electricity systems , and thereby their environmental impact.
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There will not be much margin for resource or market rents at the well-head or in the electricity system .
■ VERB
cut
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They cut off the electricity last week.
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Lightning from the storm had cut off the electricity and the cell was illuminated by a bronze dish filled with flickering candles.
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On the Hooton to Chester and Ellesmere Port line, a new aluminium conductor rail is being installed to cut electricity waste.
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They threatened to cut off gas and electricity to Moldava, of which the Dnestr region supplied almost 80 percent.
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The ring main will cut electricity bills by £5 million a year and reduce reservoir capacity requirements by a quarter.
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That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark?
generate
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The gas will drive turbines to generate electricity for the local grid.
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Only the solar panels were kept clear so they could continue to generate electricity .
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The possibility of using wood to generate electricity should also be explored.
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But they no longer generate the electricity the Rockets have found in recent games.
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It will have 22 37-metre diameter wind turbines on 30-metre towers and generate enough electricity to supply 7,000 homes.
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That plant uses methane gas from the landfill to generate electricity .
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The trees will be used as fuel to generate electricity for farm generators.
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In 1933, it could, if fully developed, have generated enough electricity for everyone living west of the Mississippi River.
pay
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Both will keep down our costs - costs that are reflected in the price you pay for electricity .
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I pay some electricity and heating.
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Why will aluminium producers agree to pay for electricity even if they do not use it?
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On this the farm worker is most scathing: fresh air does not pay his electricity bill.
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Standing orders and direct debits - the easy way to pay gas, electricity and other bills and expenses.
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The defence ministry was allocated $ 48m to pay electricity bills.
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The money can be mixed with other money, for example, to pay the electricity bill.
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You can use gas stamps to pay your electricity bill and electricity stamps to pay for your gas bill.
produce
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Domestic refuse can be burned to produce heat and electricity - we produce 25 million tonnes per year.
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The plant will produce enough electricity for 250, 000 homes.
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A power station could produce enough electricity to supply a small town.
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This has been used in space and conveniently produces not only electricity but also water.
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He posited that radiation of the same kind as light could be produced directly by electricity .
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The liquid is turned into a vapour and the pressure of the expanding vapour turns a turbine to produce the electricity .
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The head would be exploited to produce electricity .
provide
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But two reactors are still operating, providing heating and electricity to Tomsk.
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Fuel cells, which provide electricity generated by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, constitute one part of that research.
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For example, an incinerator in Edmonton, North London, burns around 400,000 tons of rubbish every year and provides electricity too.
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Later on in the 1920s the Bethell family installed their own plant for providing electricity .
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But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place.
run
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Until recently they had no running water, electricity or neighbours.
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The village and ashram had no running water, electricity , fans, radio, or telephone.
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Even on the lake for instance, motorboats are not allowed and the hired boats run on electricity .
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Ultimately this reef runs on electricity .
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Now there is running water, electricity and plumbing.
sell
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Public services which are sold - electricity , coal, etc. - are, however, marketed.
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For 100 years, publicly owned utilities have sold electricity at lower prices than their private counterparts.
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It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
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It later began selling electricity in the region, building its own hydroelectric plant in the 1920s.
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Twelve area boards were responsible for distributing and selling the electricity to both industrial and domestic users.
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Close as they are to being sold , electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week's change.
use
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Today, modern versions of windmills, called wind turbines, are used to create electricity .
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Anyone who used electricity or drove a car had no right to tell peasants to stop felling trees.
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I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead.
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The possibility of using wood to generate electricity should also be explored.
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However, at present, the economics of using solar-produced electricity to produce hydrogen from water by electrolysis are poor.
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Logically, an autonomous house can not use mains electricity .
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Making and using electricity - a salt and battery!
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I was sure that my machine could use electricity from lightning to give life to the body.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gas/electricity/water etc supply
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But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply .
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Is there an electricity supply ? 7.
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It is claimed the dust left behind pollutes water supplies .
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That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
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The cisterns were the huge catchment tanks which held the city's water supply .
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The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
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This' black rain' left a sticky oily coating on people, livestock, crops, water supplies and buildings.
mains gas/water/electricity
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A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water.
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Even horse clippers were powered by this system, but this was replaced by mains electricity.
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Facilities are basic - only one has mains electricity - although all have a toilet and cold water.
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In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply.
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My mains water is a problem.
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The station, seven miles from the nearest road, has no mains electricity.
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Used in such a way, there is no requirement for electricity, telephones, mains water or drainage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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You could feel the electricity in the air.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A kind of electricity seemed to be gathering inside them.
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As in electricity , a positive charge glances away from a positive charge: like charges repel each other.
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It's still not clear exactly what happened but somehow the electricity surged into the ground around the pole.
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Motorways, electricity generators, municipal dumps were all subject to kickbacks.
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Much of the new demand will come from a doubling in the amount of gas consumed by electricity generators.
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Paying regular bills such as gas and electricity is much easier this way.
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Taxes were raised on vehicles and electricity prices increased.
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The utilities couldn't deliver electricity at a fair price because the government forced them to sell at an unfairly low price.