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Deregulation Drives Higher Electricity Retail Prices
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Ohio State University’s Energy Markets and Policy Group (2026) analyzed a decade of Ohio retail offers and nearly 15 years of default-service auctions and finds retail deregulation introduced middlemen instead of competition. They report 72.1% of open-market offers exceeded utilities’ default rates, and auctions with fewer bidders produced significantly higher consumer markups, suggesting deregulation often increases bills and reduces price transparency.
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Strong, quantified university research with clear policy implications; limited geographic focus (Ohio) reduces generalizability scope.
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