Sentence examples for utility deregulation from inspiring English sources

Utility deregulation has permitted stodgy monopolies to reshape themselves.

California, as everybody now knows, screwed up its electric utility deregulation.

Just as we regret the hasty construction of nuclear power plants, we will regret hasty electric utility deregulation.

In Texas, Mr. Bush has always been an advocate of electric utility deregulation, but his support did not always fall Enron's way.

Under utility deregulation, Con Ed has been required to sell most of its power plants, though it continues to deliver electricity to its customers through its own grid.

We are more vulnerable to a sudden jump in oil prices or the turbulent effects of utility deregulation than the industry goliaths.

In some industries, such as telecommunications and electric utilities, deregulation is freeing companies to divide the market along modular lines.

Re "Deregulation Has Given Power to the Power People" (April 30), which looked at the improved financial outlook of utilities: Deregulation has given utilities an unprecedented multibillion-dollar bailout at the expense of consumers and a vibrant competitive market.

She also put dozens of minority members in important administrative and regulatory bodies, including Herb Tate, chairman of the Board of Public Utilities and point man on the tricky business of electric utilities deregulation.

In California, the formal launch of utilities deregulation was met with a resounding yawn because the existing utilities will be protected for years from real price competition; at which point they will have recovered the bulk of their so-called stranded costs.

Connecticut, for its part, acted to curb power-plant pollution as part of the just-passed utility-deregulation bill, which was signed into law by Gov. John G. Rowland at the end of April.