Some utilities, fearing they would not have enough money, have had to consider rationing power.
But utilities, fearing they would be unable to recover their costs as the state moved away from regulations that guaranteed them profits, stopped building power plants, leaving the state's power supply simply no longer able to keep up with peak demand.
Utilities, fearing for their survival, often end up issuing rate hikes to maintain revenue.
But the oversupply added to utilities' fears that in times of peak renewable power production, the value of electricity could fall to zero or even below, as producers would have to pay others to take it so as not to damage their grid.
EPA is threatening to continue forcing the industry to internalize its costs, and Obama's recent speech reconfirms that utilities should fear comeuppance for their GHG footprint.
We live our lives through tech, have become addicted to its utility and fear the withdrawal.
Utilities, he feared, would swipe Green Mountain's expertise and dump it as a partner down the road.
Peter Lehner, head of the attorney general's environmental protection bureau, reported that while the utilities no longer fear federal action from the deregulators in the Bush administration, they were deeply worried about the states.
A 27-year-old analyst is paying only half his January utility bills, fearing he otherwise might be unable to afford his prescription antidepressant.
