21. Chefs who need ingredients late in the evening or on weekends, when regular wholesale markets are closed, will also benefit. 22. Consumption has put constraints on the wholesale electric market, where utilities routinely sell excess power to one another to help meet demand. 23. Curtis Hebert, the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is an avid free marketeer who rejects the notion of price caps on the wholesale market. 24. During the same period, the fortunes of companies that sell electricity on the wholesale market have reversed. 25. Earnings have been reduced recently because of losses in trading in the wholesale market where prices have been very volatile. 26. Edelnor will use natural gas from the pipeline to operate its own plant and sell some of the supplies on the wholesale market, according to Pershing. 27. Enron buys most of its power on the wholesale market. 28. Enough power became available on the wholesale market to enable all the utilities to avoid blackouts. 29. Edison is one of the power companies on the brink of bankruptcy because it cannot afford the skyrocketing costs of natural gas and electricity on the wholesale market. 30. For the most part, competition is restricted to the wholesale market, although there is some at the retail level. |