However, getting their electricity beyond local power grids is much more difficult.

然而，将电力输送到当地电网以外的地方要困难多了。

The local power utility says nearly 500,000 homes and businesses lost power though.

当地的电力公用事业公司表示，近50万家庭和企业断电。

But I understand those figures are much lower than local power companies anticipated. What was the expectation?

但据我所知，这些数字远低于当地电力公司的预期。他们的预期是什么？

Sixty-nine percent of folks could have been without power. That was the estimation from a local power company.

69%的人可能没有电力。这是当地一家电力公司的估计。

And fuel cell technology, the kind used in some new cars, allows for even more local power generation.

而在一些新车中使用的那种燃料电池技术能产生更多本地发电。

Through which expensive roads and railways can be constructed but also in which local powers can easily blockade or control.

通过这些隘口，可以修建昂贵的公路和铁路，但地方势力也可以轻易封锁或控制这些隘口。

Local power companies have helped by offering off-peak prices of 1.3 cents per kilowatt hour for charging the cars at night.

当地电力公司也积极响应，并提供低电价即1.3美分每瓦，供居民晚上充电。

Perhaps the biggest luxury is a dedicated line to the local power substation, paid for by bribing a corrupt official or military commander.

或许（对于这些富人而言，他们）最大的奢侈品就是靠贿赂官员或军官而获得的当地供电站的专用供电线。

To accelerate the adoption of electric scooters and rickshaws, India should build out charging stations and beef up local power grids to handle the influx of electricity demand.

为了加速电动滑板车和人力车的普及，印度应该建设充电站并加强当地电网， 以应对涌入的电力需求。

So the Osage issue a tribal resolution where they plead for federal investigators to come in, those who will not be tainted or connected to the local power structure.

因此，奥色治族发布了一项部落决议，请求联邦调查员介入，这些调查员不会受到当地权力结构的污染或与当地权力结构有联系。

The local power company Pacific Gas and Electric says it intends to cut electricity supplies to about two million people after one of its transmission towers developed a fault near one of the fires.

当地电力公司太平洋燃气电力公司表示，由于其在一处火灾附近的输电塔发生故障，该公司打算切断200万人的电力供应。