I don’t know why people delete rules on fairness (laws) and then expect things to become more fair.

Electricity transmission at the minimum should be owned wholly by the public to remove profit incentive.

There’s your downward pressure—no incentive to jack up costs.

Until then, providing electricity to people will be a profit generating activity.

> Electricity transmission at the minimum should be owned wholly by the public to remove profit incentive.

My provider is a coop and my rates are lower than the publicly held providers in this region. So you seem to be correct.