In addition, the task force will look at the need for a more orderly process in the West for examining restructuring issues, perhaps including the creation of a single forum, as well as other regional approaches. Customers will demand a choice of suppliers. Independent system operators may help ease the transition to retail access.
Gas turbines offer the advantage of reducing reliance on long-distance transmission.
If there is customer choice, it must be for all customers. Aggregators must be allowed the opportunity to service small residential and commercial customers. A high cost state, such as California, has little to lose from introducing retail access. Restructuring will come under closer scrutiny by attorneys general using anti-trust and consumer protection statutes. States which are slow to move to customer choice or do a poor job of designing a customer choice regime will hurt their economies.