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Can you simplify this paragraph? Is it grammatically correct?

Hi,I read an article and it said This implies, that more or less all customers of Esson, who own appliances dependent on permanent electricity supply, dispose of their own emergency Diesel-generator installed on their premises.I try to understand it, but I think it is grammartically wrong. I think it should be This implies that more or less all customer of Esson, whose own appliances depend on

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who own appliances and whose own appliances are both correct but they mean different things. The first one is saying those people OWN (have) appliances. The second one is saying those people have their OWN appliances. The first 'own' is a verb, the second 'own' is an adjective. In the text, a simpler way of saying it is: This implies that more or less all customers of Esson, who have appliances that depend on electricity supply. .
This not so much grammar as style and choice of words, but anyway here goes: This implies that all (or almost) all of the Esson customs who require an uninterrupted power supply for their appliances use emergency Diesel generators to insure this. You don't have to add to insure this, but it sounds better. Please note that several of the words you had in the original dont have the right meanings or sound unnatural, which is why I changed them. F.ex., in English 'to dispose' means to 'get rid of, to remove, to throw away, to sell', where you mean the opposite, 'to have'!!!

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