Those companies have continued to sell electricity to California during the crisis.
That agency would sell electricity only in the state and at a small margin above the production costs.
Rather, software companies will make their money selling a service, much like utilities sell electricity.
These plants provide the bulk of electricity generated and sold by the company.
The company sells electricity to over 400,000 customers around Finland.
Now they're selling electricity below what they've paid for it.
Before long, Enron became one of the first companies to receive government approval to sell electricity at market rates.
But why would utilities, which sell electricity, have any interest in seeing sales diminish?
Many small generators are allowed to sell electricity back to the grid for the same price they would pay to buy it.
The company sells electricity to more than two dozen local governments in Massachusetts.