21.   National Power had looked at acquiring a regional electricity company after Southern Co. of the U.S. said it might make a bid for National Power.

22.   North West bought Norweb Plc, a regional electricity company, earlier this month.

23.   SBC is a partner in Diax, a joint venture in Switzerland with six regional electricity companies that plans to compete with Swiss Telecom.

24.   Seeboard becomes the seventh regional electricity distributor in England and Wales to be taken over or face a pending bid this year.

25.   Seven U.K. regional electricity companies have been bought in the last two years by U.S. power companies seeking to expand into the less regulated U.K. market.

26.   Shares of other cash-rich regional electricity companies in England and Wales also rose as investors bet other bids might be coming, analysts said.

27.   Shares of other regional electricity companies in England and Wales also rose as investors bet other bids might be coming, analysts said.

28.   Seeboard is the seventh regional electricity distributor in England and Wales to be taken over or face a pending bid this year, with five companies left.

29.   Seven U.K. regional electricity companies have been sold to U.S. power companies in the last two years as the U.S. utilities sought expansion into the less regulated U.K. market.

30.   Should Northern fall to CalEnergy it will be the eighth U.K. regional electricity company to be taken over in past two years.