Li spent much of the 1990s expanding and managing an energy monopoly, State Power Corp.

Delbert John Rockecenter could go broke if anyone monkeyed with his energy monopoly.

But the report ignored a critical part of the problem: the commission itself, which has been incompetently monitoring the energy monopoly.

The joint operation will be divided equally between the two nations' energy monopolies.

Except for Scandinavia and Britain, where energy monopolies were opened to new entrants years ago, most European countries did not begin liberalizing until about 1999.

We're free of their energy monopoly.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration wanted the electricity produced to be a public source of power and prevent energy monopolies.

There is a great risk that the local and regional energy suppliers will fall by the wayside and become the puppets of the large energy monopolies.

One of its stellar articles was about corruption in the state-run energy monopoly, Pertamina.

Rosneft, in turn, is merging with Gazprom, the government-controlled energy monopoly, to create an oil and gas giant.