[ringgold]

Amen brother! Open the markets up and everything will be just grand,they say. Hey, IPP's will take care of everything. Of course, if we don't start building some transmission lines to handle all of this new generation, it doesn't do much good.

[meyer]

Amen brother! Open the markets up and everything will be just grand,they say. Hey, IPP's will take care of everything. Of course, if we don't start building some transmission lines to handle all of this new generation, it doesn't do much good.

Yep - free markets are fine, but the infrastructure isn't there to do so in this industry. Nor is it in the grid owner's best interest to improve the infrastructure, given that that opens doors for others to take their own customers (and only the good customers, of course).

The de-regulation experiment in the US has failed for standard, sound economic and engineering reasons.