If the proportion of imported pipeline gas falls, so does the pricing power of conventional suppliers, even if the overall volume they supply goes up.
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It's the most open and liquid power market in the United States, offering both residential and commercial users a broad choice of power suppliers.
One doesn't want to give too much monopoly power to private suppliers of water, so that they can then use that power to lobby government for special favours.
Aggreko has become one of the world's largest suppliers of temporary power in recent years, having picked up a string of contracts for major events around the world.
It now buys 48% of its power from private suppliers, at about 6.5 cents a kilowatt-hour - some 20% more than what Meralco pays its IPPs.
ON, easily Germany's biggest energy companies, not only generate electricity but also supply it and own the networks over which it is distributed to the disadvantage of other power producers and suppliers, and therefore customers.
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John Hanlon, chair of Energywatch Scotland, said he was extremely disappointed by the recent performance of the country's power suppliers.
The categories have been changed by battery suppliers, turbo power gasps of air that allow for mindful performance, and an industry that has been electrified by Tesla and an outcry for alternative fuels.
"The government must guarantee that any subsidies for new power generation and any rate of return to suppliers are fair, and not overly generous at consumers' expense, " said the group's director of energy Audrey Gallacher.
He blamed some of the customer switching on rival power suppliers offering attractive introductory deals to lure customers.
The company has little bargaining power with product suppliers, and no barriers of entry to protect its businesses from competition.
Additionally, the company can utilize its substantial bargaining power with its suppliers, reducing the impact of industry-wide input cost increases and sustaining profit margins.
The bill is intended to stop the large supermarkets' squeezing their suppliers and the Adjudicator will enforce the groceries supply code of practice and will have the power fine retailers that do not treat their suppliers lawfully and fairly.
Yet that cannot last, because the rationale of liberalisation is for power generators to choose their suppliers.
In other states utilities are being forced to allow independent suppliers of electricity to use their power lines.
As if destroying the financial lives of his investors was not enough, as part of the W Financial scheme Abdulwahab took control of a Texas power company that, at its demise, forced thousands of residential customers to scrambe for alternate electricity suppliers.
The combined firm will have greater economies of scale and more bargaining power with handset and equipment suppliers.
They also are dedicated to the power of relationships and community, with help always available and suppliers that are willing to go above and beyond to ensure client satisfaction.
To leverage its power, Walmart will ask its suppliers to quantify the amount of water, energy, fertilizer, and the pesticides they use, per unit of food produced.
The other 40% of the energy will be purchased from local and regional renewable power suppliers.
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The balance of power in commodities markets has passed, for now, from buyers to suppliers.
The bigger suppliers have an advantage because they generate their own power, selling most of it to consumers, with little of it going to wholesale markets.
Since 2006, HD increased its operating margin through efforts such as developing its supply chain management, which reduced cost of transportation and inventory, and developing a formal distribution channel which increased bargaining power over suppliers.
As almost the sole buyer of health services, the state enjoys great bargaining power over doctors, nurses, and other suppliers.
An entrepreneur's staying power is often determined by an ability to create the kind of hoopla that gets noticed by customers, suppliers, even Wall Street.
Also, within this unit, a significant number of small commercial and industrial customers that would normally buy power through PSEG by default switched to other suppliers last year.
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But then few have such concentrated suppliers as platinum, palladium and nickel - and Opec has been aware of its special power to influence the markets ever since 1973, when producers quadrupled world oil prices almost overnight.
With a wide assortment of product offerings to its target group of low-to-middle class U.S. consumers and by maintaining its pricing power over suppliers, we believe Wal-Mart will be able to sustain its leadership in the retail industry.
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An auction by PJM Interconnection that measures forward supply of electricity generation continued to paint an upbeat assessment of utility suppliers, who it said continue to add generating capacity and make investments to enhance existing power output.
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RECs, the two Scottish power companies, the Pool (a club of companies which runs the wholesale electricity market) and would-be new suppliers all have to be able to converse.
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