The commercial utilities paid to operate the system, but did not get any revenues.

That's right, your utility can pay you for power.

According to the audit, the utility has paid about $4.75 billion in dividends to the holding company over the last five years.

The utility would pay for the project with state financing.

If that happens, say planners, the utilities will pay for them.

Some utilities in Washington are now paying more than 10 times what is normal for power at this time of year.

He did not know how much the utility paid to rent the larger machines.

Here, the utilities would pay rent, perhaps millions of dollars a year.

Each utility pays a share of transmitting power over these lines.

That led him to wonder, he said, whether utilities had been paying attention to the rules at all.