Traditionally, utilities owned both the generating plants and distribution equipment. In deregulated electric markets, utilities don't own the power plants, but instead purchase power for their consumers. In addition, consumers like businesses and residential consumers can opt-out of the utilities' purchases and buy their own electricity to be delivered over the utility grid.
A controversial topic, as some say electricity deregulation drives up prices and consumer costs due to market manipulation and excessive build out of transmission lines. But it also incentivizes power plant operators to be more efficient, as traditional regulated-utilities have less incentive to build highly-efficient power plants as they are guaranteed a rate of return by regulators.
Deregulated states tend to have higher electricity prices, but also less coal, especially older inefficient dirty coal plants. But they also had higher electricity prices before deregulation, and generally tigher environmental regulation.
Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.
When California, New York, Texas and other states began deregulating their electricity markets in the 1990s, officials promised that those changes would foster competition and make energy more affordable.
But it hasn’t worked out that way.
Average retail electricity costs in the 35 states that have partly or entirely broken apart the generation, transmission and retail distribution of energy into separate businesses have risen faster than rates in the 15 states that have not deregulated, including Florida and Oregon. That difference has persisted for much of the last two decades or so, including in the last year, when energy prices increased worldwide after Russia invaded Ukraine.
On average, residents living in a deregulated market pay $40 more per month for electricity than those in the states that let individual utilities control most or all parts of the grid. Deregulated areas have had higher prices as far back as 1998.
Um. 4400 mAh is just a self promoting way to say 4.4 amp hour.
And with a 3.7 volt lithium ion cell that works out to be 16.3 watt hours. But that doesn’t sound that impressive.