Stranded costs should not be borne by those who choose to remain with their current electric supplier. All customers should have access to electric service. Safety and reliability must not be jeopardized. We would like to encourage each of you to watch the news media in all of its forms and keep up with the deregulation, restructuring or re-regulation of the electric utility industry. For more information about deregulation, see the N.C. Association of Electric Cooperatives web site .
Electric utilities speak their own language.
Here are some terms you'll hear more often as utility restructuring progresses. A more appropriate term would be re-regulation. Our industry will be more regulated than ever before. Your co-op is a distribution system.