But across the river lies a vast market for American utilities wanting to export electricity.

And some American utilities have eagerly cast about in those turbulent waters to land one of the few remaining fish from the fragmented industry.

But American utilities are only now beginning to roll out broadband connections on their grid.

They are the first American utilities to make such a promise.

Since 1978, no American utility has ordered a new reactor.

Its strategy has been different from many other American utilities facing deregulation.

A number of private American utilities have also benefited from California's troubles.

Southern, like many other American utilities, has been seeking to diversify internationally.

Six years later neural networks were being used by 32 major North American utilities and remains in common use today.

American utilities have bought British companies in part to learn from the experience of losing monopoly control over customers.