As PJM grapples with reliability, load growth, and market failures, policymakers are still debating what might work next. Meanwhile, one model has already been delivering real results for more than a century.
Alison Williams of Power for Tomorrow makes the case that well-regulated, vertically integrated utilities are doing exactly what today’s power system needs:
Shielding customers from price spikes
Supporting economic growth and industrial competitiveness
Delivering reliability through long-term planning and accountability
The data are hard to ignore: residential customers in deregulated states paid 42% more for electricity than those served by vertically integrated utilities, and the gap is growing.
At a moment when energy policy conversations are accelerating fast, this article asks a simple question policymakers should keep front and center:
What actually works for customers?
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