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2011
Impacts of Electricity Restructuring in Rural Pennsylvania (2011)
March 17, 2011 | Infrastructure
The purpose of this study, conducted in 2009 and 2010, was to examine the likely impacts of electricity restructuring on rural Pennsylvania ratepayers, since expectations for the transition to market-based retail electricity pricing in Pennsylvania had been unpredictable. Electricity restructuring was mandated in Pennsylvania in 1996, and introduced a number of significant changes in the commonwealth’s electricity industry. Wholesale markets for electric generation were almost completely deregulated, and utilities in Pennsylvania were encouraged to sell their generation assets and purchase power from the market, either through bilateral contracts or regional wholesale markets, such as the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) market. By January 1, 2011 all electricity consumers in Pennsylvania served by state-regulated utilities were to pay electricity prices determined by market
forces.
Tags: consumers , dergulation , electric choice , electricity
Introducing the Center's new journal, Rural Policy: The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.