11.   Because of that, they said, sales of gas or transmission services involving a local utility and its own customers should be free from FERC rules.

12.   A complex system that allows customers to bypass their local utilities and buy power directly from other sources functioned flawlessly.

13.   A perfect candidate for developing a local angle in greater detail about how the problem affects local utilities.

14.   According to hot-line reports, callers are asking general questions about their local utilities, their monthly bills, and how competition will work.

15.   --Allow manufacturers to bypass local utilities and buy power from the lowest cost source.

16.   But the prices that local utilities could charge consumers remained under state control.

17.   But the local utility was preparing to send crews to help with outages in the Rockingham County area Tuesday.

18.   California is considering forcing local utilities to carry over their transmission lines the power that independent producers and other utilities sell to their customers.

19.   Carton will buy electricity and steam from the plant, which also will supply the local utility and other industrial customers.

20.   CHUCK incorporates several technologies that address the difficulties of cooking outside the range of a local utility.