Texas-New Mexico power shocks state IOUs with its customer choice plan
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-6190
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✦ Synopsis
ciples on federal restructuring legislation, a rump group led by WPL Resources' Errol1 Davis and consisting of some 17 utilities met privately in Washington during the EEI confab to discuss their differences with EEI. EEI's new principles represent a bit of a softening from its previous "just say no" stance on comprehensive federal legislation. EEI's move was an attempt to reconcile some differences with the Alliance for Competitive Energy, a group of large EEI members led by Duke Power and Southern California Edison. The new EEI statement, Davis told Ekctricity Daily (March 22), "is an improvement over what we had in January." Davis said he "raised the question of what actions by the EEI staff would be different because of this statement. I did not get what I thought was a satisfactory answer." Another dissident CEO, Jim Rogers of Cinergy, echoed Davis, telling reporters on March 21, "You can't tell people you are for competition and then work against it." He added that "dancing around the issue doesn't add to the debate.