INDIVIDUAL investors have been moving out of utility mutual funds, one of the worst-performing sectors recently.
Gurus also moved out of utility PPL, specialty chemical company Lubrizol and Delphi Financial Group, an employee benefits services firm.
And they're not introducing a radical change in technology that eventually sells itself out of utility.
Instead $1 million was earmarked to fight out-of-state utilities that want to curtail coal use.
"Superconducting" power lines route extra electricity from out-of-state utilities when demand spikes.
New York's attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer, who in September 1999 sued, or served notice of imminent legal action on, several out-of-state utilities said, "We could not be happier".
"Every idea is a tradeoff," Mr. Lindsey said, noting that the current federal requirements that out-of-state utilities sell more power to California "is causing problems now in Arizona and Oregon".
Many of the states in this suit as well as others have used suits to pressure out-of-state utilities to curtail nitrogen and sulfur emissions that travel long distances.
Utility values were based on the studies of Cleland et al, 8 Calvert et al 11 and Feldman et al 9 The baseline out-of-hospital utility was set to 0.68 (table 1). 9 The utility improvement in the CRT-P/D groups was estimated to amount to 0.1, 8 9 11 resulting in a utility weight of 0.78.
Pepco has asked for additional utility workers from 2,900 to 3,600.The Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said it had asked for 2,000 out-of-state utility workers, and the first 1,300 were to begin arriving at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport Sunday.
