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Article: OP-ED: Voters should back state's besieged law on retail competition.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- May 24, 1998
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For more than two months, Massachusetts consumers have had the right to choose who will supply their electricity. No longer do regulators force a consumer to buy electricity solely from the electric company whose wires connect to her house. Although the incumbent electric company continues to provide transmission and distribution (or delivery) services, numerous firms are free to compete on a retail level.
It would be surprising if the retail-competition law had, after only two months, completed the task of creating the textbook definition of a competitive marketplace. Perhaps from impatience, perhaps from the distrust of the competitive process, some interest ...