The Commonwealth of Virginia's State Corporation Commission makes it very easy for energy companies and the rich and powerful to participate in thier workshops. All they have to do is file their intention to participate via electronic filing. Not so for citizens. We'll have to file a paper copy with the Commission; no faxes are allowed. It also looks like the deadline for receipt of your filing is tomorrow. Read what you can do about it.
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This post appeared in the OP ED section of the Patriot News on June 3, 2007. I feel very passionate about this issue and at the request of Nora Brownell, have given permission to publish it here. John Hanger, Penn Future .
Critics of Pennsylvania' restructured electricity market are either suffering from amnesia or blinded by ideology when they claim that returning to the old system will protect customers from high prices. Fifteen years ago (before restructuring), Pennsylvania's electric rate was about 15 percent above the national average. Electric customers in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh metropolitan regions paid electric rates that were routinely around the 10 highest in the nation.
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