Power for Tomorrow Responds to DOJ’s Anticompetitive Regulations Review

On March 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched its Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force to identify and eliminate laws that hinder free market competition and harm consumers, workers, and businesses. As part of this effort, the DOJ is seeking public comment on regulations that raise barriers to competition, particularly in high-impact sectors like energy.

In its formal comments, Power for Tomorrow warns that in the electric sector, promoting competition simply for its own sake risks undermining the Task Force’s stated goals. In fact, many of the states that embraced deregulated “open markets” are now grappling with the highest energy costs and least reliable service.

Ironically, the same proponents pushing competitive models today are targeting states with well-regulated utilities—systems that reliably produce power to meet demand at the lowest reasonable cost. Power for Tomorrow identifies this pressure to deregulate as a root cause of ongoing regional electricity challenges.

The organization was formed in direct response to Winter Storm Uri in 2021, when millions in Texas lost power for days in the nation’s most “competitive” energy market, resulting in hundreds of deaths and billions in losses. That failure exposed the deep flaws of deregulated markets and reinforced the value of the traditional public utility model, which has delivered reliable, affordable power for over a century.

Now, four years later, Power for Tomorrow is a leading voice for energy consumers, providing research and analysis on how regulation protects the public and promotes the very consumer welfare that antitrust laws are designed to uphold.

As the DOJ reviews public input, Power for Tomorrow urges decision-makers to recognize the critical balance between competition and regulation and to support policies that ensure all Americans have access to reliable, affordable electricity.

Read the full comments here.