Guiding Principles for a Consumer Driven Electric Power System
These principles reflect the desire to establish a much more consumer responsive, reliable and environmentally responsible electricity system. Developed with citizens, mayors, the business community and other stakeholders, these Principles provide an electricity consumer’s “bill of rights,” a template for evaluating existing and proposed electricity policies and legislation. The following precepts are designed to guide policy making today and help future generations adapt to changing circumstances:
- All electricity consumers have the right to receive dynamic electricity pricing, and the means and incentives to use this information to their best advantage.
- All electricity consumers have the right to buy their retail electricity services from any source they choose in open, competitive markets.
- All electricity consumers have the right to electricity service system reliability and quality that protects life and safety under all conditions, and meets the needs of today’s digital society.
- All electricity consumers have the right to access, at all times, the fully transparent performance metrics of their electricity service system.
- All communities have the right to improve their electricity distribution system, with the full cooperation of their utility, in order to best serve the needs of their citizens.
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