A. Communications services and electric utilities did not have a good quarter.

The number is growing 3 percent a year, twice the national average for electric utilities.

It is the point where electric utilities provide power to their customers.

But California will be one of the first states also to open its electric utilities to competition.

Southern States returned to the production of electric utilities after the war.

In fact, it was employees of the country's electric utilities who had stayed off the job.

After a few years, residents had a vote to create a municipal electric utility.

No electric utility has signed up to buy power from the project, though several are studying it.

Officials at the electric utility said they could not recall any time in recent memory when such an event left so many people without power.

The program is expected to cost $4 million and will be formally announced later this month at a meeting of electric utilities.