31.   It includes power suppliers, banks and thousands of institutional, governmental and individual investors who hold bonds or other debt securities.

32.   It will allow a group of residential customers and businesses to choose power suppliers as they do long-distance telephone services.

33.   It will let some consumers choose power suppliers as early as this year.

34.   Likewise, ongoing negotiations between the state and power suppliers and utilities could bring more stability to power prices, which could help.

35.   Many states, including New Jersey, plan to let consumers choose their own power suppliers as they now do long-distance telephone providers.

36.   Longtime critics of Enron and other out-of-state power suppliers jumped on the latest disclosures to back up their claims of market manipulation in California.

37.   New power generators would compete for retail customers with established utilities, and businesses and consumers could choose their power suppliers.

38.   Next year, the U.K. will let all consumers choose their own power suppliers.

39.   Next year, the U.K. will let consumers choose their own power suppliers, triggering competition between electricity distributors.

40.   New York, like several other states, is deregulating the industry, abolishing the old utility monopolies and allowing power suppliers to compete for customers.