Deregulation and competition lowered the cost of delivering energy

Fuel Fix:
Deregulated utility markets decrease the cost of generating electricity by $3 billion per year, according to a study from the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago.

A majority, more than 60 percent, of power in the U.S. comes from deregulated markets, including power in most of Texas, where customers purchase power through retail electricity companies that offer different prices for power. Texas’ deregulated market went into effect in 2002.

Power companies in deregulated markets are more likely to use lower-cost power generating units, and reduce the use of power generators that cost more to run, the University of Chicago study found. The study’s conclusions are based on simulated data pooled from daily electricity operating reports from nearly every electricity generating site in the country from 1999 to 2012.
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This should be a lesson for those opposing deregulation of other operations.  I think it is also relevant to the school choice movement where parents will be the ones deciding where their children will get the best education opportunities.  

It is also relevant to the Trump administration's goal of deregulating and removing restrictions on the development of energy.  It is an objective that should result in increased jobs in the US and lesser needs for imports of energy.

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