shutoff

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The state also operates a cash-grant program for low-income families who face evictions, utility shutoffs or other “household emergencies.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

“Millions of households are being pushed deeper into utility debt and closer to shutoffs simply because they cannot afford to keep their homes warm.”

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

At the same time, the council wrote, Edison had cut power to neighborhoods served by wires that had been undergrounded, an expensive upgrade that Edison has said would prevent the need for the shutoffs.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

For more than a decade, California utilities have used the shutoffs to stop their equipment from sparking fires.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

The shutoffs for regulating the water are constructed as follows.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio