11.   It was expected to usher in an era when consumers would have a choice of electricity provider.

12.   Like most new electricity providers, the company has no generation or transmission capabilities.

13.   More than half of that went to TXU, the single biggest electricity provider in the state.

14.   Other stocks Aclan expects to benefit from the growing economy are electricity provider Manila Electric Co. and oil refiner Petron Corp.

15.   Planning Minister Teodoro Petkoff said a move earlier this month to allow electricity providers to increase their rates is one of the chief reasons for the overall increase.

16.   Separately, Besicorp last April was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors for documents and testimony related to a broader investigation of electricity providers.

17.   The commission is moving the state from the traditional system to a competitive market, in which customers can choose among competing electricity providers.

18.   The power onslaught surges into forecasts for reduced economic growth, yet electricity providers are not the only ones expanding.

19.   The state aggressively advertised a choice of new electricity providers.

20.   The Selective Index of Chilean stocks rallied for the first time in six trading sessions after a leading electric utility led the group that bought a Brazilian electricity provider.