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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John Hanlon, chair of Energywatch Scotland, said he was extremely disappointed by the recent performance of the country's power suppliers.
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.
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.
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.
The other 40% of the energy will be purchased from local and regional renewable power suppliers.
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He blamed some of the customer switching on rival power suppliers offering attractive introductory deals to lure customers.
As almost the sole buyer of health services, the state enjoys great bargaining power over doctors, nurses, and other suppliers.
Yet that cannot last, because the rationale of liberalisation is for power generators to choose their 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 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 company has little bargaining power with product suppliers, and no barriers of entry to protect its businesses from competition.
The balance of power in commodities markets has passed, for now, from buyers to suppliers.
The combined firm will have greater economies of scale and more bargaining power with handset and equipment 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.
"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.
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.
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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