More than two decades after Ohio’s 1999 deregulation law, electric utilities continue to seek subsidies from their monopoly consumers as retail electric prices did not follow declines in wholesale prices. The OCC advocates for lower electric rates based on power plant competition not subsidies. And the OCC’s Subsidy Scorecard shows that more than $15 billion in above-market subsidies have been charged to Ohio consumers by their electric utilities since 2000.
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