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"Similar suggestions from the distribution companies ?"
Move to Texas if you build transmission lines. It is unique in that the governing body, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council Of Texas) is entirely within the state. When we deregulated, all transmission expenses are paid out of a pool called T-costs. It didn't take long for the Utilities to realize you could double the price of everything and build a solid gold transmission line since the cost would be distributed state wide.
(Of course, we all know it wasn't built of gold and the money went somewhere else).
It comes under the heading of, "What the consumer doesn't know won't hurt him".
Of course, the land condemnations and various legal red tape usually take so long that the line is overloaded by the time they finish building it.
