1.   Because the inefficiencies in the transmission grid plague different areas to differing degrees, firm numbers on what the situation is costing homeowners and businesses are hard to project.

2.   Enron and other power marketers wanted unrestricted access to electricity transmission grids, which were owned by their competitors.

3.   FERC wants California to join a regional transmission grid to help move the state and the nation to more broader and competitive electricity markets.

4.   It also called for a new, self-regulatory body to oversee transmission grids, as Enron wanted.

5.   Moreover, it urges Congress to amend environmental laws so that it is easier to develop domestic resources and build new pipelines and transmission grids.

6.   Regulators now require utilities that own sections of the transmission grid to transport power produced by any source, even competitors.

7.   Some of the topics, such as equal access to transmission grids and interconnection of power networks, are largely technical in nature.

8.   Technical constraints in the transmission grid make it unlikely that much of the power will get to New York City.

9.   The company recently received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build an underwater cable across Lake Erie to link the Canadian and American power transmission grids.

10.   The deregulation movement may also become bogged down next year in continued uncertainty about how to handle the transmission grid.