Competition
The electric power industry is becoming more complex. Two decades ago, there
were no real choices for the electric power purchaser. You were served by the
local utility at a price which guaranteed them a reasonable return on their
investment.
This began to change with PURPA, and the advent of the IPP industry. By the
mid-1980s wholesale customers and large retail customers had the additional
option of
Then in 1992, the Energy Policy Act was passed, and transmission access for
wholesale customers became a right. FERC's pro forma tariff requirements under
the Mega-NOPR promise to make that right practicably accessible on a broad scale
for wholesale customers.
An increasing number of retail customers are also obtaining access to the open
market, giving them choices in suppliers of electric power, just as they have a
choice of suppliers for virtually every other product they purchase.
Now a new category of company, the independent power marketer, is offering to
become an intermediary between the buyer and the seller, and promising to
reduce prices even while making a profit on the transaction.
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