electric company

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Morgan, forced a client with more inventions than profits, named Thomas Edison, to merge his electric company with a Schenectady, N.Y., lighting outfit that had more commercial momentum than star power.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

They would stay for a few hours and come back, having seen a tweet from the local electric company saying that power should be restored by that evening, midnight at the latest.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023

The president said the national electric company told him that service had been restored to 55% of customers in the affected area but that more than 200,000 homes and businesses remained without power.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023

In 1989, the electric company AES Corp kicked off the carbon trading market by planting 50 million trees in Guatemala to offset emissions released in the construction of a new power plant.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2023

The morning of the fifth night Shukumar found another notice from the electric company in the mailbox.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri