The Campaign for Fair Electric Rates is a grassroots advocacy effort that is fighting to protect consumers like you. We want to:
• Educate consumers, businesses, policy makers and Members of Congress about the failure of the deregulation of wholesale electricity markets to provide any benefits to consumers.
• Encourage you to contact your Senators and Representatives to ask that they urge the agency charged with overseeing these markets (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) to take steps now to protect consumers against unjust and unreasonable rates.
The Campaign for Fair Electric Rates wants to hear your personal story about how increasingly high electric rates are impacting your life and that of your community. Have high electricity rates made it harder for you to pay your bills each month? Do you live on a limited income? Have you had to cut back on other expenses in your home? Are you a small business owner and have less money to expand or invest due to high electricity prices? Please take a moment to share your story with us and take a stand against unfair and unreasonable electricity rates.
After struggling with soaring heating costs through the winter, millions of Americans are behind on electric and gas bills, and a record number of families could face energy shut-offs over the next two months, according to state energy officials and utilities around the country.• In deregulated states, more than 45 million customers are paying 56 percent more than the rest of the country for electricity.
• Shareholders in five of the largest owners of unregulated power plants earned about $70 billion more than investors in regulated electric utilities over the past decade.
“Deregulation brought a meltdown in our electricity markets with market manipulation, profiteering and higher costs to consumers without benefits. Remember Enron?.” –Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR)