[DannyTN]

Ok, fine. I'm all for building new plants. But the cost of new plants shouldn't be tabulated in the cost of repairing the grid. That's something different altogether.

Rates already have built into them plant costs, so an increase in demand shouldn't automatically translate into an increase in rates.

[mewzilla]

Thanks to partial deregulation, generation and transmission may be two different balls of wax. Not all generators supply, and not all suppliers generate. I think regulatory involvement is really going to raise hob with the cost, and that's a big reason why the price for updating the grid could go so high.