Competitive Energy Associations (CEA) Seek U.S. DOJ Support for Retail Energy Choice
A group of competitive energy advocates, in comments to a U.S. Department of Justice Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force, have requested that the DOJ recommend the adoption of federal legislation which would impose, “specific limitations on the traditional authority of state and local governments,” in order to achieve retail energy choice
The comments were filed by the Retail Energy Advancement League, the Electric Power Supply Association, the Retail Energy Supply Association, and the [sic] Energy Professionals Association (collectively, the competitive energy associations or CEA)
Per the DOJ, the newly launched Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force was created to, “advocate for the elimination of anticompetitive state and federal laws and regulations that undermine free market competition and harm consumers, workers, and businesses.”
“Realizing President Trump’s economic Golden Age will require unwinding burdensome regulations that stifle free market competition. This Antitrust Division will stand against harmful barriers to competition whether imposed by public regulators or private monopolists,” said Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
