11.   - Great Plains Power, which aims to sell power on the wholesale market and wants to build a plant near Weston, Mo.

12.   - Regulators continue studying unexpected and dramatic price spikes that occured last summer in part of the wholesale electric market.

13.   A deregulated wholesale market where private, unregulated suppliers would compete to produce power was supposed to eliminate these inefficiencies.

14.   A spokeswoman for the California Energy Commission, which tracks the oil industry, says dynamics in the wholesale market seem to point to a price drop.

15.   Alioto said the city might save millions of dollars a year by bypassing the utility and buying power directly on the wholesale market.

16.   Bunge said it will sell Appetize in its longstanding North American wholesale markets.

17.   Business at wholesale markets like Yabao Road is conducted in American dollars.

18.   But high prices are not helping the utilities much, since regulation still prevents them from passing on the price rises on the wholesale market to consumers.

19.   But ratepayers could eventually suffer if the transmission limitations cause continued volatility in the wholesale market.

20.   By cutting back on vacations, shopping at secondhand clothing stores and buying food at wholesale markets, however, she has managed to cope.