These are significant changes in the energy industry, and they're creating a lot of potential winners. Large and small customers win because their cost of doing business goes down. Customers win again because of the innovative new products and services that are absolutely going to come from this industry. Green products and services, for example. Individual consumers can make a conscious choice to buy a greener slice of electric production if they choose to do so.
Customers win again because they can get different levels of reliability.
Businesses that shut down their factories between Christmas and New Year's, or at some other time during the year, are going to be able to buy 11 months worth of energy and not have to pay for 12 months' worth. Everyone's going to win because of the improvements to the environment that will be driven by customers choosing a greener product. Suppliers have got to win their energy consumers every single day in the marketplace, and to do so they will choose a greener image to match the greener desires of consumers. The economy's going to win because the costs that used to be in people's energy pockets are now available to flow into other places. If electricity consumers nationwide are saving hundreds of million dollars a year in their energy bills, this represents, after-tax, disposable dollars that are going to be redeployed somewhere in the economy.