I’m troubled by AERO’s blatant misrepresentation of Oklahoma as having the highest electricity rates in our region. This is simply untrue. Reports released by the Public Utility Commission of Texas clearly show that Texas’ deregulated prices are continuing to climb at a dramatically higher rate than Oklahoma’s when comparing 2021 rates to 2022 rates. While Oklahoma electricity prices are at 10.87 cents, Texas is seeing prices between 20 and 30 cents, and some service areas are seeing as much as 150% increase.
Read MoreIn deregulated states, customers are turned into de facto natural-gas forecasters, gambling on the direction of highly volatile markets when it’s time to renew their contracts.
Millions of Americans are being forced to bet on power and natural-gas prices at a time when even seasoned professionals are unsure where highly volatile markets are headed.
Read MoreA group of third-party energy marketers, or 'middlemen,' is attempting to manufacture a problem for Oklahoma.
These middlemen are the founders of a new group called Alliance for Electrical Restructuring in Oklahoma (AERO) that is seeking to deregulate Oklahoma’s electric industry. Recently, AERO’s executive director, Mike Boyd, wrote an op-ed alleging Oklahoma utilities Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. (OG&E) and Public Service Corp. of Oklahoma (PSO) 'wildly overpaid for the natural gas' during Winter Storm Uri in February 2021.
Read MoreOn Aug. 4, 2000, Governor Tom Ridge (R) announced that electric competition would lead to job growth, economic expansion, and decreased rates… This Electric Fantasyland never materialized. To the contrary, electric companies collected $11.4 billion in “stranded costs” (mostly for uneconomical nuclear plants), shifted taxes to municipalities and school districts, and dumped customers at record rates.
Read MoreThe regulated electric utilities in Oklahoma include - Oklahoma Gas and Electric, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Liberty Utilities and 5 electric cooperatives.
State law prevents the Commission from regulating any electric utility operated by a governmental entity, such as the Grand River Dam Authority, or cities, which are members of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority.
The Alliance for Secure Energy (ASE) is proud to announce the appointment of Jeff Cloud as executive director.
Read MoreElectric vehicle (EV) owners will soon be taking road trips across the Midwest with increased confidence. That's because six regional energy companies have committed to a first-of-its-kind Memorandum of Cooperation, committing to work together to build a vast network of Midwest EV charging stations by the end of 2022.
Read MoreIt should be inconceivable that in a time of American energy abundance, within the nation’s richest and most populous state, citizens are being subjected to rolling electricity blackouts.
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