RTO Insider: Where are Utilities Best Serving Customers?

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?

Read the full article here.