61.   Those blackouts stem in part from the inability of retail electricity suppliers to buy enough wholesale electricity at affordable prices.

62.   Unable to reach agreement with Bush on the issue of wholesale electricity price caps, Davis later said the state plans to sue FERC over the issue.

63.   Under deregulation, electric retailers would purchase wholesale electricity from power generators, then send that energy to customers.

64.   Utilities no longer necessarily generated power, and they and their larger industrial clients looked for good deals on the power being sold on the new wholesale electricity markets.

65.   Wholesale electricity prices have soared in the last six months.

66.   Wholesale electricity markets are now deregulated, so prices are allowed to float.

67.   Wholesale electricity prices have skyrocketed in California, leaving utilities struggling under price caps established with deregulation and continued shortages of power.

68.   Wholesale electricity prices spiked sharply higher in Texas Monday as the state struggled to deregulate its power market without plunging into the same energy abyss that swallowed California.

69.   Wholesale electricity is power that a utility has available to sell to other utilities.

70.   You are one of only a handful of major players selling wholesale electricity.