Enacts

Dismissing the criticisms of a few of the expected competitorsin Texas’ coming deregulated electricity market, the Public UtilityCommission last week adopted rules that require affiliate powergeneration companies unbundled from current integrated utilities tosell entitlements to their power generation. PUC said the ruleswould benefit electric customers by proving a more competitivewholesale market when it begins Jan. 1, 2002.