The Conservative Energy Network (CEN) recently hosted a webinar with University of Texas scholar Joshua Rhodes on his work examining the competitiveness of electricity markets across the country and comparing the different market designs. We previously looked at the UT study in this post but we also wanted to highlight the video of the discussion between Rhodes and CEN’s Landon Stevens. We hope you enjoy it.
“We found that states that are part of deregulated wholesale electricity markets and have retail choice for customers tended to score the highest while (fully regulated) states that did not at least have Performance Incentive Mechanisms for utilities or any sort of compensation programs for distributed generation owners did not tend to fare well in any other competition metric, and tended to score lower overall. ”