18 On 7 February 1997 the Skull Valley Band signed an agreement with ten utility groups to build the repository.

In the same year, the board members of OMV and Verbund, the Austrian utility group announced plans for a merger.

Sixteen utilities and utility groups agree to pay for half the project in return for half the electricity generated.

The utility group tracked by Morningstar yields an average of 2.02 percent.

Mark D. Luftig of Salomon Brothers remains neutral on the electric utility group.

In a high-inflation environment utility groups are a good way to protect your income.

In the hiring announced yesterday, Bear, Stearns brought on almost all of the senior managers from Kidder's utility group.

If buying interest returns to the utility group during the second quarter, where might it occur?

Any increase would come with a safe dividend, currently yielding 5.66 percent, about average for the electric utility group.

Many of the changes forecast by the utility group depend on prices and on consumer attitudes.