ENERGY

PG&E; Sets Rates for Wholesale Customers: The filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the nation’s largest investor-owned utility, is a step in an ongoing effort to restructure the power industry to provide more competition for both residential and large-scale users. Restructuring is expected to benefit small independent power producers as well as municipal utility districts that supply their residents with electricity and producers of alternative energy such as wind farms. The federal energy commission in March asked all 137 U.S. utility companies to guarantee wholesale customers access to their transmission lines. San Francisco-based PG&E; has asked the commission to rule on the filing by July 1.