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Deregulation In The Electric Industry
Electricity is the principal force that powers modern society. It lights
buildings and streets, runs computers and telephones, drives trains and
subways, and operates all variety of motors and machines. Yet most people,
despite their great dependence on electrical power, hardly give it a
thought. They flip a switch, turn a key, or pick up a phone and expect the
power to be there without fail.
The almost-century old structure of the American electric utility industry
is in need of change. Almost all interested parties accept the fact that
technological change and altered views of the nature of government
intervention have made
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