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Article: Electric companies may face competition.(retail wheeling offers choice for consumers of electric power)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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Several states are considering proposals that would allow at least some customers to have the choice of purchasing power from sources other than their local electric company, indicates Robert Burns, a senior research associate at the National Regulatory Research Institute, Ohio State University. In a practice known as "retail wheeling," a customer in Ohio could shop for the best deal on electricity and decide to buy from a generating company in Indiana. The Ohio customer's local utility would be required to transmit the purchased power.
In Nevada, retail wheeling already is available for some large industrial customers. State regulators in California have proposed ...