Utility Companies Quotes

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

The REA [Rural Electrification Administration] brought us electric lights when no one else would.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

We have taken on the fossil fuel companies, combating climate change and even the energy utilities.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs.

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.

As utility companies work to achieve full compliance with clean water standards, Congress must ensure our nation's most vulnerable are not priced out of life's most essential resource.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

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.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.

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

In my life, I'm an expert on a few things. Losing close elections is one of them. Electric utility regulation is another. Neither is a barrel of laughs, but both have their moments.

I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.