The Hill News

Just before Christmas, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved an order that will force Michigan to pay hundreds of millions of dollars annually for new power lines that provide no benefit to the state’s consumers.

Homeowners and businesses in other states, beware.  If, as expected, FERC goes national this spring with a regulation that also broadly socializes the costs of new transmission, consumers throughout the United States will feel Michigan’s pain. 

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