Sunday, April 19, 2015

Will Michigan republicans stomp out energy competition? And new businesses?----Open Michigan electric market to (some) competition

Milojevic, Wells: Open Michigan electric market to (some) competition:
...Michigan energy customers have recently been subjected to a barrage of television ads warning of the impending “energy crisis.”
The ads and testimony on the “new” energy plan claims that the current incumbent utility energy companies are the only ones capable of providing reliable energy.
This simply isn’t the case.
All of Michigan’s energy producers are held to the exact same standards as the two leading providers.
Dow Chemical, the largest corporate energy consumer in North America, and one of Michigan’s leading employers, utilizes energy derived from the natural gas-fired facility Midland Cogeneration Venture, an independent power producer with an excellent record for safe, reliable and affordable power production.
With the utility monopoly model, independent power producers are simply not provided with a level playing field to introduce healthy energy-market competition. 
This is a direct harm to Michigan consumers and industrial energy users alike.
The opportunity to bring this healthy dimension into the fold is now.

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