1.   A state already troubled by steep electric rate increases and rolling blackouts is naturally worried about putting another energy source in peril, he said.

2.   But the long-term threat is a winter of rolling electricity blackouts, which will cut heat and water for many.

3.   Davis appeared a shoo-in for reelection before rolling power blackouts hit his state this year.

4.   In both cases, officials said, those measures were all that prevented rolling blackouts.

5.   Initially, the government had also said that if Brazilians met the consumption targets, that would be sufficient to avoid rolling blackouts.

6.   It endured rolling blackouts and other problems before federal regulators last summer ordered restraints on electricity prices.

7.   Rolling power blackouts hit Southern California for the first time Monday as critics claimed the shortage was engineered by electricity generators to hold the state hostage.

8.   The task force was formed shortly after the new administration took office -- at a time of rolling blackouts in California and rising prices at gas pumps across America.

9.   With the onset of summer threatening not only more rate hikes but frequent rolling blackouts, more and more Californians are joining the Habibs.

10.   A California company is relocating to Norman partly because Oklahoma does not have rolling blackouts, a company executive said.