1.   And up went wholesale energy prices.

2.   Before its abrupt slide into bankruptcy, the Houston company dominated the wholesale energy sales and trading business.

3.   Adding natural gas assets would back up its growing U.S. wholesale energy marketing arm as Southern expands into unregulated utility businesses around the country and abroad.

4.   Dahlberg noted that six top U.S. metropolitan areas are within reach of electricity grids supplied by Southern plants serving its growing wholesale energy market.

5.   First-quarter results are expected out Tuesday, and Dynegy said they will reflect a good performance by its core wholesale energy business.

6.   Foundation lawyer Pamela Pressley said the investment was worrisome because Duque was in a position to vote on policies that might favor maintaining higher wholesale energy prices.

7.   Higher wholesale energy costs will account for much of the increase, said Anthony Chan, chief economist at Banc One Investment Advisors Inc., in Columbus, Ohio.

8.   In general, the eight Western states led by Republican governors support the administration policy against controls on wholesale energy prices.

9.   Legislators originally promised that the exchange would offer cheaper wholesale energy, but this summer the prices offered nearly quadrupled.

10.   One of the U.S. businesses, American Electric Power Co., said it was selling its stake to concentrate on wholesale energy in Britain and Europe.