1.   Acquiring utilities is going to get more expensive, Lennon said.

2.   In others, power companies are acquiring adjacent utilities or moving into new businesses.

3.   It would also allow non-utility businesses to acquire regulated utilities and allow more money to flow into the existing utility industry.

4.   Last year, eight power companies announced plans to acquire other utilities.

5.   Sokol said that if Calenergy acquired the utility it would provide larger rate cuts much faster.

6.   The agreement clears the way for Brooklyn Union to acquire the utility without its burdensome debt.

7.   Western is aggressively expanding into new areas by acquiring utilities in adjacent regions and introducing services such as home security.

8.   Western is aggressively expanding into new areas by acquiring utilities in adjacent regions and introducing services such as home-security and energy management systems.

9.   Klappa was named to the post after the British utility was acquired by Southern Electric International, a unit of the Southern Company.

10.   When it acquires a utility, he said AES usually brings in managers from its existing plants and keeps on the best employees at the new one.