1.   It has to keep its own prices down so that it can compete with other major electricity suppliers.

2.   The two major electricity generators, PowerGen and National Power, declined to comment until they had assessed the white paper.

3.   As in a major electricity blackout or the disruption of telephone service, users suddenly realized how much they had taken technology for granted.

4.   A major electricity source for the Southwest, the Navajo reservation has four coal strip mines and five coal-fired power plants.

5.   The utility is the major electricity distributor in Minas Gerais, the second-largest industrialized Brazilian state.

6.   A major electricity blackout hit at least five Brazilian states on Monday, dramatically hampering commerce in six key cities.

7.   Also Wednesday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering a major electricity wholesaler to continue selling to California despite its fear that it will not get paid.

8.   Hundreds of Chinese engineers, he said, are rehabilitating a major electricity plant near Najaf in southern Iraq.

9.   Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Frank Damrell Jr. was expected to decide Thursday whether three major electricity wholesalers must continue to sell power to cash-strapped California utilities.