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The need for utilities to pass on rising wholesale prices to their customers is very much an inevitability. Absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

The sheer magnitude and frequency of wholesale price rallies are such that absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

Farmers are feeling the pain of rising input costs, including energy prices, and fertilizer prices that have tripled in just the last few years. They are clearly looking for relief from costs pressures, which they cannot pass along to their customers.

Businesses quite simply haven't been able to pass on the higher unit labor costs to consumers, and have the prices stick without losing market share.

Overall, utilities are doing a better job at communicating with their business customers, which can go a long way toward improving customer satisfaction. With all of the news about rising energy prices, and with another year of major storm events, electric utilities had to be clear about what they were doing to help business customers. Communications is the area utilities have improved the most since our 2004 study.

Alan Destribats

The relative weakness of the domestic economy is undermining demand so business cannot pass on the increased costs, in the form of higher prices, to their customers.

He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. These are important numbers, particularly the one on employment costs. There's some concern about rising wage costs and rising prices and I think the market is really going to be on alert for that.

The question is whether producers are absorbing their rising costs or whether they've started to pass those expenses onto consumers. If consumers are paying more, then we have a problem.

Prices on the wholesale market have been up sharply the past several days. As a retailer, we have finally been forced to pass these prices along,

We know that customers are tiring of these electric rate increases. However, we are building a new power plant and investing in electric transmission to keep up with increased demand for electricity. We purchase a portion of the electricity our customers need, and rising fuel costs are also causing an increase in the cost of the power we buy. These investments and purchases are needed to ensure reliability. Simply put, our business is more costly to operate than it was in the past.

[FPL buys oil on the futures market to protect against future spikes in energy costs, but that is not enough to offset FPL's increased costs from] a world oil market that is going absolutely crazy, ... We can't hedge our entire fuel needs.

Going forward, [sales] volumes will be dampened by high gasoline prices and other energy costs, now absorbing a record share of disposable income.

We have tremendous concerns in three areas: transportation, because of rising fuel costs; utilities, because of rising fuel costs; and increases in health care costs. We could have given teachers a 7 percent pay raise instead of taking those things away. We could have hired more of those teachers at a higher salary.

Wholesale prices for natural gas have been declining ever since December, so we're glad to pass those savings on to our customers.

We add all our net costs together and subtract sales to other utilities. In a good month where we sell a lot of power credits, we're able to pass that savings on to our owner-customers.

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