1.   Alpert said everyone wants to avoid blackouts, but that seems unlikely.

2.   Customers responded and the blackouts were avoided.

3.   Enough power became available on the wholesale market to enable all the utilities to avoid blackouts.

4.   Officials at that utility insisted that they could have avoided the blackout if they had been warned.

5.   Still, he acknowledged, it may not be enough to avoid blackouts this summer.

6.   The chances are about as likely as the idea of California avoiding blackouts this summer.

7.   The California Independent System Operator issued notices of potential blackouts to safety officials and others across the state, but the utility managed to avoid blackouts Monday.

8.   The jockeying has begun among California businesses desperate to avoid blackouts this summer.

9.   The New England Power Pool is already making plans for backup energy sources to avoid power blackouts.

10.   The situation is most critical in New Hampshire, where consumers must conserve power during the summer heat to avoid electricity blackouts, the report said.