The electricity distributors are girding themselves for a similar crackdown.

Network costs - the amount that the suppliers are charged by the gas and electricity distributors - are estimated to account for about 23 per cent of a dual-fuel bill.

There may have to be grants or consumers will end up paying as electricity distributors are forced by government diktat to buy the expensive power.

Electricity distributors or wholesaler purchasers of electricity are required to source a specified percentage of their electricity (portfolio) from renewable generation sources.

Of those companies that had survived the early 1950s only half remained after the loss of such a large distributor.

For reasons of commercial survival, the emphasis soon changed to providing front-end technology to larger distributors.

This led to the group being picked up by larger distributors so that their albums were able to reach a wider audience.

The company became one of the nation's five largest distributors of industrial electronic components and production supplies.

Competition was intense between the large distributors, and prices overall were forced down.

In 1983, the company expanded its target markets and redirected efforts toward servicing microcomputer resellers as a wholesale distributor.

Turners company was a wholesale distributor of computer hardware including network cards, hubs, and imported modems.

It operated as a bank until about 1940, then housed a wholesale distributor of tobacco and confectionery.

The manufacturer will then transform the steel into a machine, selling the machine for a higher price to a wholesale distributor.

Wholesale distributors cut the price they pay farmers for milk last week due to concerns about excess supply.