Collocations withelectricity
These are words often used in combination withelectricity.
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amount of electricity
A bill based on the weight of the copper (and later zinc), and hence the amount of electricity used, was sent to the household.
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atmospheric electricity
This claimed to utilize atmospheric electricity to eliminate the overhead wire used by the existing telegraph systems.
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availability of electricity
The cost per mile of lighting can be affected by the frequency of interchanges, type of lighting installation and availability of electricity supply.
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conductor of electricity
It is a good conductor of electricity when molten, but very poor in the solid state.
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electricity bill
One reason is that in most households the electricity bill is lower than the telephone bill.
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electricity consumption
Thus, the contextual knowledge becomes operational (since it is used in the programs which predict electricity consumption) and hence evolves into contextualized knowledge.
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electricity customer
That is a huge extra subsidy to be paid for by the general electricity customer.
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electricity generation
The aim is to privatise electricity generation and supply, telecommunications, water and sewerage, railways and harbours.
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electricity grid
One can also distinguish purchased from self-collected wood and identify whether households are connected to the electricity grid.
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electricity provider
The electricity provider was criticized for not cutting the energy in summer, so that people could make plans for winter.
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electricity rate
Why do they not pay an electricity rate?
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electricity sector
In the electricity sector, however, private enterprise actively fought against the creation of a state monopoly.
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electricity usage
The final section on ' innovative sources and methods ' is (inevitably) eclectic but stimulating and covers social surveys, electricity usage, population records and music and dance.
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excess electricity
It is consequently necessary to sell the excess electricity on the market.
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flow of electricity
We need to see the flow of electricity and consider where it wishes to go.
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generating electricity
The most recent estimates put the cost of generating electricity from wave energy in the range 5-15 p/kwh.
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increased electricity
There were economic and environmental costs—for example, increased electricity consumption.
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kilowatt of electricity
They do not ask that they shall have one kilowatt of electricity.
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lack of electricity
Some of it may have been due up till fairly recently to the lack of amenities—for instance, the lack of electricity.
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megawatt of electricity
It would cost about £375 million—which is £1.5 million per megawatt of electricity produced—to burn the short rotational coppice.
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reliable electricity
For many years, it has not had a reliable electricity supply.
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surplus electricity
Conductors do not attract lightning; instead they silently discharge the clouds' surplus electricity by channelling it into the ground.
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total electricity
It should have targets for the contribution of renewables to total electricity supply and for reducing demand through improved efficiency.
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volts of electricity
It is traversed by first-class roads; it has a first-class water supply; it has an electrical station which distributes 33,000 volts of electricity.
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wholesale electricity
It should lead to a reduction of 10 per cent, in wholesale electricity prices.
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