Independent power producers and electricity traders, whose future depends on deregulation, argue that California is an anomaly.

The Mirant Corporation, an Atlanta-based power plant owner and electricity trader, sharply curtailed its trading with Enron this week.

Even so, the energy squeeze of the last year was a boon for both power plant owners and electricity traders.

As it rushed to reach a merger agreement with Dynegy last month, Enron paid about $50 million to 75 employees who worked as natural gas and electricity traders.

To issue licences to persons to function as transmission licensees and electricity traders with respect to their interstate operations.

Regarding designating electricity trader by Central Government for import of electricity from other countries (13-04-2009)

The government does not regulate prices for electricity, and consumers have free choice among providers of electric power (currently there is 15 licensed electricity traders).

Industry officials deny that the profit motive is exerting pressure on the control rooms, saying electricity traders are segregated from the operators who schedule and initiate transmissions.

Enron is the nation's largest electricity trader.

Enron's electricity traders joked about ripping off California's grandmothers even as they siphoned power from the state to make a blackout crisis worse.