Study Says Electricity Deregulation Leads to Higher Consumer Bills

The Coalition to Defeat Question 3, is responding to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s release of findings from a two-year study of the state’s deregulated residential electricity market. The study concluded that a so-called “Competitive supplier market” for residential electricity supply had actually cost residents $176.8 million more, than if they had stayed with their traditional utility provider over that same time. In light of the findings, Attorney General Healey called for an end to Massachusetts’ “Competitive supplier market” for residential electricity customers. Frankie Sue Del Papa, Co-Chair of the Coalition to Defeat Question 3, says the report is yet another example of how electricity deregulation has failed consumers in other states, and why Question 3 would have serious adverse consequences for consumers in Nevada.