Opinion: Getting rid of competition is not the answer to power grid crisis

Joshua Macey August 28, 2026

Hartford Courant View Original Source

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America’s electric grid is in trouble. Demand is surging for the first time in a generation, driven by data centers and the electrification of everything from cars to home heating. Costs are rising. New power plants and transmission lines can’t get built fast enough. And the utilities responsible for the grid have largely responded by asking to be shielded from competition.

Rather than proposing solutions to the grid’s actual problems, many utilities are using this moment to roll back the reforms that forced them to compete in the first place.

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