Public Power - September 2008 - (Page 21) ublic power utilities were optimistic in late 2001, when former Texas regulator Pat Wood took the helm at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Wood announced his plan to form four large regional transmission operators in the United States to operate the nation’s electric transmission system. Finally, it seemed, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had a leader ready to deliver on the promise of open access to electric transmission, which had been legislated by Congress in 1992 with P passage of the Energy Policy Act. But a year later, the bubble of optimism had burst. The vision of open highways for electrons, where buyers and sellers would balance supply and demand and customers would see their rates fall, never materialized. The vision had been hijacked by moneygrubbers who designed new games to help them keep a grip on their decadesold monopoly on electricity supplies. What customers were innocently heralding as “competition” evolved to be a complex equation of the status quo. The money continued to travel in the same direction— it just took a detour through newly restructured entities. By 2003, many utilities began to sour on the value of large regional transmission organizations. Utilities in the Northwest and Southeast teamed up to stop formation of federally approved RTOs in their regions. Wholesale electricity customers in the Midwest and Northeast saw their opportunities for buying lower cost power dissolve. BAD • • • • • • • • Higher electricity prices Complex transactions High administrative costs No new transmission capacity (in some regions) Huge profits go to shareholders No savings for customers Unbundled components of power supply add cost Increased transmission costs www.APPAnet.org SEPTEMBER 2008 21 http://www.APPAnet.org
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