Stakeholders on different sides of the aisle continue to push for electric choice in Wisconsin. Milwaukee Alderman Robert Bauman is pursuing legislation directing the city’s administration department and intergovernmental relations division to lobby Wisconsin lawmakers for a change in state law to allow retail customer choice in electricity.
COMPETE Coalition
Written by: Bill Massey
Milwaukee Alderman Robert Bauman is pursuing legislation directing the city’s administration department and intergovernmental relations division to lobby Wisconsin lawmakers for a change in state law to allow retail customer choice in electricity.
His legislative proposal had been slated for discussion last month before the Milwaukee Common Council’s Judiciary and Legislation Committee, but Bauman opted to delay such action until the fall so he can use the summer months to canvass state lawmakers for support of retail electricity competition in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Daily Reporter newspaper reported.
“As a practical matter,” Bauman told the newspaper, “there’s really no urgency to put this before a committee.”
Some are raising concerns with Bauman’s legislative proposal, citing California’s failed attempt at restructuring its electric industry a decade and a half ago. But this ignores the fact that many other states have successfully restructured their electricity markets to promote retail electricity competition, bringing economic savings, innovation and environmental benefits to consumers.
One need only look across the border to Illinois to see the striking economic and environmental benefits that effective retail energy competition would bring to Wisconsin.
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