WASHINGTON WATER POWER CO.(Business)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 6, 1998 | Copyright information

Few utility companies have been as aggressive at reshaping themselves for the coming overhaul of the electricity business as Washington Water Power. The Spokane electric-and-gas utility's executives have long felt the need to change, not only because the entire industry will be remade into a competitive business but because WWP is a low-cost electric utility in a slow-growth market. It is first tried a merger with a Nevada utility, but when federal regulators dragged their feet WWP...

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