micropower

/ ˈmaɪkrəʊˌpaʊə /

noun

1. power distributed on a small scale using local generators

Example Sentences

—Barbara Krasnoff Soma fm Soma fm started life as an actual micropower radio station in San Francisco in 1999 but flipped over to the internet in 2000.

From The Verge

The essay, written by Michael Rectenwald, a clinical assistant professor of liberal studies at NYU, says, in part, that academe “has co-opted and now brandishes identity politics and its techniques of micropower—including trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias reporting—as means of the disciplining of the subject. Bias reporting lines are examples of the ways colleges and universities are able to enlist everyone within their ambit as sentinels of surveillance, discipline and punishment.”

From Slate

In January Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, sentenced three executives of Micropower Career Institute, a for-profit college with five locations in the New York City-New Jersey area, for visa fraud.

From New York Times

But reaching out to the subcontinent’s backwaters can be expensive and risky, so Gurgaon-based Omnigrid Micropower Co. has developed a business model where it sets up its small solar-power plants near cellular towers to guarantee reliable income from telecommunications companies before it starts serving villagers.

From Wall Street Journal

Some are modest, such as a $750,000 loan by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to an Indian start-up that builds micropower plants run on discarded rice husks.

From New York Times