nonutility

Examples

• All

• First, it is expected that as much as 50 percent of new generating capacity through the year 2000 will come from nonutility suppliers.

  Academic text (1992)

• By the end of the 1980s, almost 30,000 MW of nonutility generating capacity was in place in the United States, and 40,000 MW was being developed.

  Academic text (1992)

• Fixed and predictable payments for energy and capacity would provide nonutility developers with the long-term price certainty they need to obtain financing for long-term projects with high capital costs.

  Academic text (1994)

• Despite an aging stock of fossil fuel and nuclear plants, competition-sensitive utilities are likely to delay building new capacity themselves, while a greater range of nonutility generators (NUGs) will compete to sell power to utilities.

  Academic text (1994)

• In fact, utilities now consider purchasing electricity from other utilities and from nonutility entities, repowering (that is, adding equipment such as a heat recovery boiler) and life extension (that is, replacing aging equipment so that the plant can operate past its planned lifetime) of existing plants, DSM programs, transmission and distribution options, and pricing as additional options in meeting the growing demand for energy services.

  Academic text (1994)

• The humanities' nonutility was once seen as the emblem of an elite education, a marker that endowed the privileged with symbolic capital—a kind of disposable luxury.

  Academic text (2014)

• Many items in the garage are complete nonutility, just taking up space without serving any practical purpose.

• The artwork was criticized for being nonutility, as it seemed to offer no functional value beyond its decorative appeal.

• He realized that his collection of old coins had turned into a nonutility, gathering dust instead of bringing any real benefit.

Synonyms

N

nonessential

vsnonutility

1 5.6

A thing that is not needed

is about lacking usefulness or practical purpose rather than necessity

C

complete and utter waste

vsnonutility

1 4.3

A thing like time or money that is completely useless and gives no benefit

is not useful or lacking practical purpose but less extreme

I

inessential

vsnonutility

1 5.5

A thing you do not need and can leave behind

is focused on not being useful in practice rather than importance

N

nonnecessity

vsnonutility

7.4

A thing you do not need

is the lack of usefulness or practical purpose, not just necessity

U

unnecessity

vsnonutility

8.4

A thing or situation that is not needed

is lack of practical usefulness rather than mere absence of need

Antonyms

U

utility

63 3.5

The quality of being useful for a particular purpose

How Useful

necessity

274 2.0

usefulness

40 1.6

nonutility

8.9

uselessness

6 4.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology