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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Come on, that's simply not true. The whole "deregulation" in California was that the companies could sell electricity to neigbouring states at higher prices. And as yads said, retail prices are still regulated.
Another thing to consider that eventhought the population of California grew (as did the economy), "green laws" prohibited building coal and nuclear powerplants. So the state government not only fixed prices but it artifically lowered the supply. And the blackouts were a result of that.
So the state government caps retail prices, thus removes incentives to build powerplants, and not only that it forbids companies to build coal/nuclear powerplants too. Shortages come next and yeah, that's a total failure of "deregulation."
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Actually, it is true.
http://ca.lwv.org/lwvc/edfund/citize...gulation-3.pdf
But you're right, it didn't have much to do with California's blackouts, I was mistaking that for the Northeast grid.