Quotes about Electricity Market

Barry Goldwater

You know, I think we ought to sell TVA.

Gray Davis

Deregulation [of electricity] does not work unless you have more power than you need.

California deregulated it’s electrical utilities who sold their generating capacity to others. As power consumption grew, there was not enough generating capacity in California and the state had to buy on the open market where they were gouged. The cost of electricity soared by 450 percent in the first year alone.

P. J. O'Rourke

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

Jeffrey Skilling

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.

Gray Davis

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Van Jones

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

Piyush Goyal

You can't sell thermal power without the competitive bidding.

Warren Buffett

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.

Electricity Market Quotes