11.   His department was pressed into service as an emergency electricity buyer in January after skyrocketing power prices drove state utilities deeply into debt.

12.   It said a tariff system for transmission through state utility, Enel, will be set up in September.

13.   Large state-controlled companies such as phone company Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA and state utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras dominated trading and helped push the index lower.

14.   Ownership will then transfer to the state utility.

15.   Sao Paulo state government has invited companies to evaluate and prepare three state controlled utilities for sale.

16.   State utilities National Power Corp. and Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System earlier announced electricity and water rate increases for this month.

17.   State controlled electric utilities were among rising stocks.

18.   State utilities, too, should adopt a relaxed attitude towards bills, he said.

19.   The entire output of the Jorf Lasfar plant, the largest independent power project in Africa, will be sold to the state utility.

20.   The government is slated tomorrow to auction Enersul, a state utility in the frontier state of Mato Grosso do Sul.