re: Why is Entergy my only choice for electricity? How is that not a monopoly?

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You made it sound like the utility that sends you a bill owns it all.

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For large utilities, they do. They own the generators, big wires, transformers and little wires. Only Co-ops and cities have the luxury of only owning the small stuff because they buy their power from the big boys. The billions and billions of dollars it took to get it to them is paid for by the big boys.

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In most instances, each utility owns its own distribution lines, poles, substations and other equipment.

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It says what it says. It doesn’t mention the power plants or the transmission lines as being owned by the distribution utility.

Read about natural monopolies, baw.

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It says what it says.

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Will you relax? It needed more clarity. People don't think demco actually generates its own power, but what you said made that seem so. Although cities like Laffy do own partial ownership in some smaller power plants. My point was simply that there's a difference between distribution, transmission, and generation. You and I know that, but most people don't understand that not every line that brings them power from power plant to the house meter is owned by the exact same entity in most cases outside of Cleco and Entergy. That's all. You and I get it. But that wasn't totally clear from your first post.

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Yes.

Six Dollars and Eighty-Eight Cents.

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Right now griddy is reporting it at $8.99 per kw/h. I think the normal power companies that lock customers in at their advertised rates would be getting crushed right now if they weren't rolling outages to "keep from overloading the system" or whatever they are claiming.

I'm starting to think there aren't problems with distribution, they will just lose a ton of money if they provide the power.

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It is a regulated monopoly...

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the big scary market controlling, price gouging monopolies you're taught to fear in government school only exist through government.

the government's solution: also government

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Right now griddy is reporting it at $8.99 per kw/h

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Damn. I would be shutting everything off at my house and move into a hotel. You would be spending nearly 180 dollars per hour just to heat your home if your heater had to run constantly.

And we Louisianians complain about Entergy.

It does sound a little suspect. Those people that locked in their rates at cents per kWh and now the wholesale rates jump to 9 dollars a kWH. Some companies would lose everything like the short sellers of GameStop.

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Damn. I would be shutting everything off at my house and move into a hotel. You would be spending nearly 180 dollars per hour just to heat your home if your heater had to run constantly

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I don't think it works out quite like that.

But yeah, griddy was actually telling their customers to switch to a different provider because their cost would be outrageous. I can't imagine how much money normal companies are losing right now only charging their customers $0.12 or whatever per kw/h.

The texas grid is all market based with the transmission/distribution line owner being "for sale" in a way. Whoever you purchase from as a distributer has to purchase power from some generator company. All of this is done on a market like the stock market. Companies constantly buy and sell power and in multiples ways... day ahead market, realtime market, reserve market, etc.

In Ohio, there is a monopoly on "delivery", First Energy, of the electricity, but there are multiple electricity providers, including First Energy. Bills come from FE with there delivery charge and whatever rate you have negotiated from them or other suppliers.