Businesses flip-flop on electricity deregulation

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. In the 1990s, industrial energy customers such as Allegheny Technologies were among the first and most forceful advocates of ending the state’s traditional regulatory control over the electric industry. They wanted prices to be determined by market forces.

More than a decade later, that radical transformation is nearing completion. But now the industrial customers are among its most vocal critics.

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