According to the charges filed against Mr. Belden, West Power -- Enron's electric trading arm -- generated about $50 million in revenue in 1999, the year before the California energy crisis.
He already has 46 gatherings booked for 2002, including eight weddings, several events for Johns Hopkins University, a nursing association and an electric power trade group.
Last year, electric utilities, trade groups and other backers spent $54 million hiring lobbyists, including former members of Congress, to make their case, according to a separate analysis by the Sunlight Foundation, which also tracks money and politics.
Results in the second column refer to the electric machinery trade.
Kuhn, the chief executive of the Edison Electric Institute, the electric utilities trade group, remembers the tumult that accompanied the passage of that 1990 law. "Some of the toughest battles in Washington are the environmental battles," says Kuhn.
Many electric companies have expanded into riskier businesses, like electricity trading, and loaded up on debt and cut dividends.
It is also involved in the following activities: operation of central companies and holdings, excluding financial holdings; electric energy trading; wholesale of fuel and derivative products such as coal and biomass trading; and gas fuel trading.
When electric power trading began in 1994, Koch came out with guns blazing, taking fourth place in market share.
This electric power trading with the main grid has traditionally been based on a fixed, pre-determined price per kWh.
Hailed for its great growth potential, the big Houston-based natural gas and electric power trading company was selling for around $80 per share.
Anderson shows examples of existing models of free for air travel, DVR's, electric cars, trading stocks, webmail, directory assistance, silverware, music CD's, textbooks, bicycles, and university education.
