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Texas: The Worlds Most Competitive Electricity Market Bill Peacock Texas Isnt the Best at Everything Total Title Insurance Costs by State $300,000 Home w/ 5% Down The Texas price is $703 more than the Texas: $2663 median price More


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Bill Peacock

Texas: The World’s Most Competitive Electricity Market

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Texas Isn’t the Best at Everything

NY IL LA NJ TX UT MI NM MD NV AZ HI MA ID VA DE PA OH FL GA CT CA OR VT RI WA WV MN ME OK ND WY SC CO MS KY TN AL NH AK WI MT NC KS AR IN MO NE SD IA

Total Title Insurance Costs by State $300,000 Home w/ 5% Down

Texas: $2663

More expensive than Texas Less expensive than Texas

The Texas price is $703 more than the median price

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Electricity “Restructuring” Craze Sweeps the U.S.

  • 23 States: Wholesale Competition with Transitional Retail Price Freeze
  • 1995: Texas authorizes wholesale electric competition
  • 1996: California passes Restructuring Act
  • 1999: Texas authorizes retail competition
  • 1999: Maryland and Ohio restructure electricity markets
  • 2001: Texas transition to retail competition begins
  • 2001: California “market” collapses; rolling blackouts
  • 2005: Ohio backs down from ending price freeze
  • 2006: Maryland backs down from ending price freeze
  • 2006: Texas adopts an energy-only market
  • 2007: Texas transition to retail competition final
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Electricity “Restructuring” Craze Sweeps the U.S.

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Only Texas Made it to Full Competition

  • States froze retail prices and

allowed wholesale competition – sort of

  • Spike in natural gas prices

killed retail price dereg

  • Texas’ Price to Beat
  • Three Types of Markets
  • Rate of Return Utilities
  • Capacity Markets
  • Energy-Only Market (Texas)
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What Sets Texas (ERCOT) Apart

  • Energy-Only Market: No government control of

generation entry and exit

  • No Direct Wholesale Price Regulation; prohibitions
  • n market power abuse
  • No Retail Price Regulation
  • No FERC Regulation of Wholesale Market: FERC

sets the rates and service standards for most bulk power transmission outside of ERCOT

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Choice Under Competition

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Prices Under Competition

Texas, 11.58 U.S. Avg, 12.99 0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 30.00 35.00

North Dakota Washington Louisiana Idaho Nebraska Utah Arkansas Missouri Kentucky Oregon South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Wyoming Tennessee North Carolina Georgia West Virginia Texas Virginia Colorado Florida Mississippi Iowa Indiana Washington D.C. Delaware Arizona Ohio Nevada Alabama New Mexico Minnesota Illinois Maryland South Carolina U.S. Avg Kansas Pennsylvania Wisconsin New Jersey Michigan Maine New York Vermont California New Hampshire Rhode Island Connecticut Alaska Massachusetts Hawaii

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Reliability Under Competition

0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% Reserves Target 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Reserves Prices 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Reserves Prices

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Biggest Challenges: Renewable Energy

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Biggest Challenges: Crony Capitalism

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Biggest Challenges: Federal Regulation

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Biggest Challenges: State Regulation and Transition

  • Regulatory Inertia
  • Regulatory Capture
  • Consumer “Protection”
  • Wholesale and Retail Price Regulation
  • Stranded Costs
  • State Cooperation
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Keys to Reliable & Affordable Electricity

  • Increase Competition in Electricity Markets:

Texas Shows that Electricity Markets Work

  • Move Away from ROR and Capacity Markets to

an Energy-only Market

  • Deregulate Wholesale and Retail Prices
  • Eliminate Subsidies for Renewable Energy and

Energy Efficiency

  • Move to State or Regional Management of

Electricity Markets