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(Dana DiFilippo\/New Jersey Monitor)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Late last month, both chambers of the Missouri legislature began hearings on proposals to introduce electrical choice and competition, challenging the state\u2019s long-standing model of electricity generation and delivery. At the core of the debate is a basic economic principle: competition tends to put downward pressure on costs.<\/p>\n

Currently, because we cannot reasonably expect multiple sets of power lines running through neighborhoods to enable consumers to choose between providers, electricity markets like Missouri\u2019s remain structured as regulated monopolies. Nonetheless, Missouri ratepayers have faced steadily rising electricity costs, outpacing inflation<\/a> and wage growth in recent years. These costs are absorbed by families, farms, and manufacturers across the state.<\/em><\/p>\n

Through the Electrical Choice and Competition Act, Missouri lawmakers seek to address these concerns. The legislation attempts to balance the benefits of competition with the realities of natural monopoly through unbundling. Transmission and distribution, the wires and power lines that deliver electricity to homes and businesses, would remain regulated monopolies.<\/p>\n

Electricity generation, which is far less constrained by natural monopoly characteristics, would be opened to competition. Utilities would provide equal and open access to their grids, allowing competing suppliers to sell electricity using existing infrastructure while compensating utilities for its use.<\/p>\n

This approach has been adopted by several other states, from New York and Illinois to Texas. The evidence shows that competitive states saw a fraction of Missouri\u2019s rate increases over the same period and built more generation capacity, all while private capital bore the risk rather than ratepayers. When competition replaces guaranteed returns, the market builds more and charges less.<\/p>\n

The legislation also offers a direct alternative to Senate Bill 4, signed into law in April 2025, which allows utilities to charge ratepayers for infrastructure before it produces electricity, with limited penalties and no cost cap. Georgia and South Carolina ratepayers learned this lesson, paying $44 billion combined for plants that came online years late or never at all.<\/p>\n

Some critics point to Texas\u2019 energy failures during Winter Storm Uri in 2021 as evidence that competitive markets cannot be trusted. But these failures were driven<\/a> by inadequate weatherization mandates, an issue tied more to Texas\u2019 regulatory structure than its ownership model. During Uri, most Texas residential customers were on fixed-rate plans and saw their bills rise only 7%<\/a> on average. Uri is not an argument against competition; it is an argument for getting the consumer protection design right.<\/p>\n

The Electrical Choice and Competition Act does exactly that. Its default service tier structure shields residential and small business customers from wholesale price exposure until the market is established, keeping them on fixed rates until at least 50% of residential electricity use has shifted to competitive suppliers.<\/p>\n

By contrast, under Missouri\u2019s current system, the Fuel Adjustment Clause allows utilities to pass unexpected cost increases, such as a winter storm, onto customers. Under the proposed Electrical Choice and Competition Act, suppliers offering fixed contracts must absorb those risks, even if wholesale prices rise. Risk shifts from ratepayers to the firms that choose to take it on.<\/p>\n

Additional protections target vulnerable consumers. Low-income customers would be enrolled in a program where suppliers must offer rates at or below the default service price. Suppliers must obtain a Public Service Commission license, post a $500,000 surety bond (like a security deposit), complete consumer protection training, and face penalties of up to $100,000 per violation.<\/p>\n

These bills represent the most significant opportunity in a generation to fix Missouri\u2019s broken electricity market. The Electrical Choice and Competition Act aligns investment risk with investment decisions, introduces competitive discipline, and protects consumers through a structured transition with enforceable safeguards. It does so while aligning with the market-oriented principles Missouri\u2019s Republican majority tends to support.<\/p>\n

To deliver on that promise fully, the legislature should make a few targeted improvements before passage. Auctions that set default electricity prices should require enough bidders to ensure genuine competition. Low-income customers who choose to leave the assistance program should not lose their benefits as a penalty for doing so. Residential customers should have a temporary price cap during the transition, giving the market time to mature before they face its full risks. And the Public Service Commission needs adequate funding to referee the new market effectively.<\/p>\n

Missouri ratepayers have absorbed above-average rate increases for nearly two decades under a monopoly structure that has built almost nothing in return. Senate Bill 4 has made the status quo worse. The question is no longer whether competition can work in Missouri, but whether Missourians can afford to continue without it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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