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State Commissioners See Financial Risks, But Would Support More Generation, Including On-Site Power Technologies.(electricity deregulation worries utility regulators)(Brief Article)
NORTH SALEM, NY--Utility regulators worry that the financial, reliability, and political consequences of electricity deregulation underway in California will slow or even halt the spread of deregulation to their states, according to a recent survey. Many utility regulators also feel they lack adequate regulatory tools to deal with all of the issues related to restructuring energy markets, and they believe that the transmission system that delivers power is "barely adequate."
By a thin margin--46 to 44%--commissioners believe that consumers are better served by the regulated monopoly model still in effect in most states--not by deregulation of electric supply. But this result masks major regional differences; for example, seven in 10 regulators in the Northeast favor deregulation, while six in 10 Midwestern commissioners prefer monopoly status.
The nationwide study shows regulators focused on issues of electricity transmission and system reliability and that they were measurably less concerned about issues of utility financial ...
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