electricity

Governments play a role in setting prices in local, regulated monopolies such as electricity and water.

The streetlights are off to conserve electricity, and residents walk along the sidewalk by flashlight, finding their way to the store or back home from work.

The U.S. and many other nations have built cleaner energy sources and found more efficient ways of producing electricity, avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions that once seemed inevitable.

He argued the government had to invest in "aging electricity infrastructure" but there needed to be a "balance between public expenditure and levies".

Its two gigawatts of computing firepower will rival the electricity produced by the Hoover Dam.