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Chapters: organizational components of the electric power industry; mergers and acquisitions of investor-owned electric utilities; convergence mergers; joint ventures and strategic alliances in the electric power industry; divestiture of generation assets by investor-owned electric utilities; summary and conclusions; the Public Utility Holding Co. Act of 1935; three case studies of electric utility divestiture of power generation assets; 1994 merger of Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co., and PSI Resources, Inc. into CINergy Corp.; 1993 merger of Gulf States Utilities Co. into Entergy Corp.; and definitions of Corporate Combinations. Dozens of charts and tables.