31.   Administrative law judges will advise the commissioners Wednesday on the possible hikes, which the utilities requested because they have been hit by sharply higher wholesale energy prices.

32.   But we have no control over wholesale interstate energy prices.

33.   Enron Corp. selected investment bank UBS Warburg as the buyer for its wholesale energy trading operation following an auction in bankruptcy court, an Enron lawyer said Friday.

34.   Enron Corp. selected investment bank UBS Warburg as the winning bidder for its wholesale energy trading operation Friday following an auction in bankruptcy court.

35.   Enron Corp. selected investment bank UBS Warburg as the winning bidder for its wholesale energy trading operation Friday following a private auction presided over by a bankruptcy court.

36.   It also include Energy Ventures, created to manage wholesale energy marketing and trading, merchant generation, fuel properties, as well as barge and rail subsidiaries.

37.   The deregulation experiment began to unravel last year as wholesale energy prices skyrocketed.

38.   The day after meeting with Cheney, Lay said the Bush administration would not support price caps on wholesale energy sales in California, Waxman noted.

39.   The day after meeting with Lay, Cheney said the Bush administration would not support price caps on wholesale energy sales in California, Waxman noted.

40.   The utilities have been hit by sharply higher wholesale energy prices.