pancaking
n.— «Utilities, for example, can be hit with multiple charges when they buy power transmitted over multiple systems, a practice known as “pancaking.”» —“Grid West is wrong plan for NW power system” News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) Sept. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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