“Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a (Para)Dime for a Kilowatt-Hour?—or—Excuse Me, Do You Have Some (Sea) Change for a Dollar?”

Some aspects of electric industry deregulation have caused our nation to inefficiently use its financial and physical resources, resulting in the potential inability of our markets and infrastructure to clearly and consistently minimize the delivered cost of power to consumers at an acceptable level of reliability. Fortunately, constructive solutions to this quandary are identifiable and implementable.