The movement to restore Michigan’s competitive electricity market is growing, with state legislators and businesses taking action in the fight to roll back a poorly conceived statewide cap on competition.
Demand for competitive power has overwhelmed the second market opening of additional supply in California’s retail power market, reports Electric Power Daily.
Consumers in New England strongly support the power of competitive markets to stimulate investment in clean energy and combat global warming, an annual survey by the New England Energy Alliance (NEAA) demonstrates.
Legislators in Michigan have stood up for their constituents by introducing legislation to ease limitations on the number of consumers in the state who can purchase power from competitive power suppliers. The bipartisan companion bills introduced by Senator Wayne Kuipers and Representative Roy Schmidt would raise the state’s limit on retail choice from 10 percent to 25 percent of the utility’s total electricity demand.
The benefits keep accruing for Texas as the state’s competitive electricity market continues to develop. Fast on the heels of a recent study that found Texas energy rates have fallen, news about the abundance of power suppliers and spread of solar energy underscore the fact that competition is having a positive impact on consumers.