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The percentage of customers shopping for alternative energy suppliers has grown in six restructured markets, according to recently released data from state regulators highlighted in Restructuring Today.
 
These new numbers compiled from earlier this year, combined with continued growth in regions across the nation, are the latest evidence competition is working by delivering economic benefits and competitively priced electricity options to consumers.
 

Lower-cost electricity options in Western Pennsylvania are “the kind of significant savings envisioned by competition’s crusaders” a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist writes in a recent column. The columnist’s effort to explain the competitive electricity market to consumers deserves applause.
 
But the relationship between the region’s power distribution utility and the competitive power supplier who offered the columnist less expensive electricity was confused in the article, and should be put in proper context.