71.  Electric companies have been expanding into natural gas sales in the U.S. to prepare for deregulation.

72.  Electric companies, which import oil to fuel power generators, gained.

73.  Exceus said Haiti is considering splitting up the electric company into several corporations and selling equity shares in the large, urban utilities to foreign investors.

74.  Faced with the loss of decades-old monopolies, most electric companies have considered combining with neighboring utilities or natural gas distributors.

75.  For that, Duarte sold a big block of his stock in Endesa, the Chilean electric company.

76.  For example, electric companies or concert venues would require more AEDs.

77.  Gov. Gray Davis asked the Public Utilities Commission Tuesday to allow electric companies to lower voltage levels on power lines delivering electricity to consumers this summer.

78.  Gasoducto Transandino SA signed contracts yesterday to sell natural gas to three U.S. electric utility companies that will build generating plants in Chile.

79.  Government officials gave no reason for assuming control of the company, which is the second state electric company to be seized.