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Formula Rates Explained: Why Your Utility Costs Shift
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/31/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/31/26

Formula Rates Explained: Why Your Utility Costs Shift

Formula rates can raise utility bills without a full rate case. Learn how formula rate utility pricing and transmission formula rate updates work, what to watch in annual filings, and how ACP helps you track costs.

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Vertically Integrated Utility vs Competitive Power Markets
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/31/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/31/26

Vertically Integrated Utility vs Competitive Power Markets

Learn what a vertically integrated utility is, how it differs from competitive power markets, and what each model means for your bills, choice, and reliability.

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Electric Cooperative vs Investor Owned Utility: Key Differences
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/30/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/30/26

Electric Cooperative vs Investor Owned Utility: Key Differences

Electric cooperative vs investor owned utility: learn how ownership, rates, and accountability differ, why co-ops serve rural areas, and what it means for you.

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Performance Based Ratemaking: Does PBR Cut Bills?
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/30/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/30/26

Performance Based Ratemaking: Does PBR Cut Bills?

Performance based ratemaking (PBR) ties utility profits to results, not spending. Learn how PBR utility regulation can help consumers and where risks remain.

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Utility Earnings Calls: Clues to Your Electric Bill
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/28/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/28/26

Utility Earnings Calls: Clues to Your Electric Bill

Utility earnings calls offer early hints on rate hikes, spending plans, and AI-driven load growth. Learn what investor messaging reveals about your future bill.

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Utility Riders Explained: Why Fees Keep Appearing
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/20/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/20/26

Utility Riders Explained: Why Fees Keep Appearing

Utility riders explained: Learn why electric bill riders and utility surcharges keep showing up, what they fund, and how to review riders on electric bills.

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Vertically Integrated Utility Model: Wires vs Plants
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/17/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/17/26

Vertically Integrated Utility Model: Wires vs Plants

Vertically integrated utility model means one company owns wires and power plants. Learn how this monopoly utility structure affects prices, innovation, and choice.

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Utility Rate Base Explained: Why Electric Bills Rise
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/16/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/16/26

Utility Rate Base Explained: Why Electric Bills Rise

Utility rate base explained: learn how rate base electricity drives utility cost recovery, returns, and rate base and electric bills in your state.

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Maryland Utility-Owned Generation: What Ratepayers Risk
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/14/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 7/14/26

Maryland Utility-Owned Generation: What Ratepayers Risk

Maryland utility-owned generation could shift power plant costs and overruns onto Maryland electric ratepayers. Learn what lawmakers debated and what comes next.

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Ohio Energy Reform After HB6: What to Watch Next
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/18/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/18/26

Ohio Energy Reform After HB6: What to Watch Next

Ohio energy reform after HB6 is reshaping oversight, subsidies, and ratemaking. Learn what HB15 changes and what Ohio consumers should watch next.

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Utility Gold-Plating: How Overspending Raises Bills
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/17/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/17/26

Utility Gold-Plating: How Overspending Raises Bills

Utility gold-plating drives higher electric bills by rewarding utility overspending. Learn how grid investment costs work and what reforms can protect customers.

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Performance-Based Regulation Electricity: Reward Results
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/9/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/9/26

Performance-Based Regulation Electricity: Reward Results

Performance-based regulation electricity can reward outcomes, not spending. Learn practical PBR tools, real risks, and how states can protect consumers with smart incentives and open competition.

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Merchant Generators vs Utility-Owned Generation: Risk and Reward
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/4/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 6/4/26

Merchant Generators vs Utility-Owned Generation: Risk and Reward

Explore who shoulders risk in merchant generators vs utility-owned power plants. Learn how each model impacts ratepayer risk, investor returns, and energy policy.

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Stranded Costs in Electricity: What Stakeholders Need to Know
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 5/28/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 5/28/26

Stranded Costs in Electricity: What Stakeholders Need to Know

Discover what stranded costs in electricity mean, how they impact ratepayers, and their role in the transition to open, competitive energy markets.

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Should Utilities Have Guaranteed Profits? Rethinking the Regulatory Compact
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/29/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/29/26

Should Utilities Have Guaranteed Profits? Rethinking the Regulatory Compact

Explore if utilities should have guaranteed profits in today’s energy market. Uncover new regulatory models and what they mean for consumers and policy.

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Virginia’s Energy Policy: Facts About Deregulation and Utility Monopoly
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/27/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/27/26

Virginia’s Energy Policy: Facts About Deregulation and Utility Monopoly

Discover the truth about Virginia’s electricity market, why true deregulation never happened, and what that means for utility monopolies and consumers today.

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Why Monopoly Utilities Fear Competition in Energy
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/26/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/26/26

Why Monopoly Utilities Fear Competition in Energy

Discover why utility monopolies resist competition, how energy choice benefits consumers, and what it means for innovation and affordability.

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Ohio’s Energy Scandal: Why Competition Is Essential
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/22/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/22/26

Ohio’s Energy Scandal: Why Competition Is Essential

Ohio’s $1.3B energy scandal proves why utility competition matters. Discover how the FirstEnergy case harmed consumers and why oversight is vital.

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Pennsylvania at a Crossroads: Competition or Monopolies?
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/22/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/22/26

Pennsylvania at a Crossroads: Competition or Monopolies?

Explore the crucial debate over energy choice vs. utility monopoly in Pennsylvania and learn why protecting competition is vital for affordable electricity rates.

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Utility vs. Supplier: Understanding Your Electricity Service
Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/20/26 Competitive Markets & Policy Alliance for Competitive Power 1/20/26

Utility vs. Supplier: Understanding Your Electricity Service

Discover the roles of utility monopolies vs. energy suppliers in your electricity service. Learn how competition impacts your bills, choices, and reliability.

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