Small consumers, whether or not they are low-income, have not benefited from the restructuring. EOS is working on organizing many emerging materials on what went wrong and how to restore stability and reasonable pricing to wholesale and retail electricity markets by the beginning of 2008. The following is a collection of some of the best. Many other sites offer the opposing view which has dominated policy making. See naruc.org for links. We welcome your contributions and suggestions
- Impact of Utility Retail Competition on Low-Income Consumers in Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia, New York and Ohio. Meg Power, December 2003
- Managing Default Service to Provide Consumer Benefits in Restructured States: Avoiding Short-Term Price Volatility, by Barbara Alexander
- Choice is Never Having to Say you are Sorry: How Deregulation is Working for Low-Income Programs, by Gil Peach
- Three papers by Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America:
- All Pain, No Gain: Restructuring and Deregulation in the Interstate Electricity Market
- A Discouraging Word: (or two, or Three, or Four) about Electricity Restructuring in Texas, Pennsylvaina, New England, and Elsewhere
- The Federal Response to the 2003 Blackout: Time to Put the Public Interest First
Alternatives for "Re-regulation"
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