Utilities
Believe it or not, telephone companies were once regarded as utilities. This was before they became indistinguishable from America Online. The same chaos is about to break out in the electricity and natural gas sectors. And heating oil? Well, that's a last bastion of mom-and-pop small businesses, many of them modeled on Bonny and Clyde.
Utilities
- Allegheny Energy
- Ambit
- American Electric Power
- Amerigas
- Arizona Public Service
- Bay State Gas
- CenterPoint Energy, Houston
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities, Charlotte, NC
- Com Ed, Chicago
- Con Ed, New York
- Consumers Energy, Michigan
- Dominion Resources
- DPI Energy
- DTE Energy
- Duke Energy
- Elizabethtown Gas, New Jersey
- Ferrellgas
- GPU Electric Company, Hightstown, NJ
- JEA, Jacksonville, FL
- Laclede Gas Co., St. Louis
- Lakeland Electric, Florida
- Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
- MXEnergy
- National Grid
- Navapache Electric
- Nicor
- Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative
- New York City Water Dept.
- NV Energy
- Oklahoma Natural Gas, Tulsa, OK
- Pacific Gas and Electric
- Peoples Gas, Chicago
- Pepco
- Progress Energy Carolinas
- Progress Energy Florida
- PSE&G, New Jersey
- Reliant Energy
- Santana Energy
- Santee Electric Cooperative
- SCANA Energy
- SEMCO Energy
- Southern California Gas
- Southern California Edison
- Spark Energy Gas and Electricity
- Suncoast Energy, Orlando
- Tampa Electric
- TXU Energy
- U.S. Energy Savings
- Virginia Natural Gas
- Washington Gas
- Xcel Energy
ABC
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GHI
JKL
MNO
PQR
STUV
WXYZ
Oil & Gas Dealers
- Columbia Gas of Virginia
- H. John Davis Fuel, Mount Pocono, PA
- Heritage Propane
- North Pole Fuel Oil
- Petro Oil
- Pyrofax Energy
- United Propane, Frederick, MD
Toll Roads, Transit Agencies
- EZ Pass
- Sunpass Prepaid Toll, Boca Raton, FL
There are those, like Anita in St. Louis, who think that deregulation will be beneficial for consumers. Maybe, but it depends on which consumers you're talking about -- big ones or little ones. Large users of gas, electricity and so forth will be able to buy in bulk and realize big savings. Small users? Think they'll have a lot of bargaining power?
