Energy companies have been given "one last chance" to stop customers from being ripped off or face a full-scale Competition Commission inquiry.
The pledge also came just ahead of the likely announcement of a full-scale competition investigation of the energy industry by the new Competition and Markets Authority.
It would mark the first full-scale competition probe into the energy market and would see the UK's biggest suppliers come under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Britain's energy watchdog is widely expected to refer the "big six" gas and electricity providers for a full-scale competition probe on Thursday in a move that could lead to a radical overhaul of the sector.
While not a full-scale competition, the exhibition, being called the Peace Road Show, goes beyond typical demonstration events like the one Lotus recently held in Manila or that Red Bull will hold in Durban this weekend.
The F.A.A. has said that its current computers, replaced in anticipation of Year 2000 problems, will not be maintainable beyond 2007 and it wants to give the job to Lockheed partly because it did not have time for a full-scale competition.
Some groups in the coalition suggest that a federal mandate may be an unconstitutional interference in state affairs, an argument that appeals to Republicans.In any case, only a handful of states have plans to introduce full-scale competition for residential users before 2000 (although in some states plans for competition for industrial users are more advanced).
Some will conduct full-scale competitions, and others will invite native artists to help them articulate their grief.
For that reason, the energy industry is undergoing a full scale inquiry from the Competition and Markets Authority CMAA) into the way it operates.
A full scale effluent treatment plant (ETP) working on the principle of single stage carbon nitrogen bio-oxidation process (SSCNBP) revealed competition between heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria in the bio-degradation and nitrification process.
And a full scale orchestra, obvs.
