1.   A high-technology firm, for example, faces a great deal more business risk than does an electric utility.

2.   Currently, electric utilities only have limited access to power plants outside their service areas.

3.   Also helped by the rally in bonds were shares of electric utilities.

4.   Also, the DWP was one of the few electric utilities to survive this past summer of deregulation with excess energy.

5.   American Electric Power of Columbus and electric utilities across Ohio have made similar appeals, as has Gov. George Voinovich.

6.   American Electric Power, an electric utility in Columbus, Ohio, has a case involving almost identical issues scheduled to go to trial in two weeks.

7.   Among funds that concentrate on electric utilities, he likes no-load Vanguard Utilities Income.

8.   An electric utility and a software company announced Wednesday they will be working together to use electrical wires to carry computer data.

9.   Among his current picks is the Long Island Lighting Co., the electric utility based in Hicksville, L.I., which Gov. George E. Pataki wants to dismantle.

10.   Among the business groups most actively fighting the proposal are those representing oil companies, electric utilities, automakers and other manufacturers.