Well, this sounds pretty good, but if aggregation were allowed, wouldn t that mean that my town would have to go into the electricity business?
Don t worry; Marlborough s government will not have to become a National Grid substitute. For instance, both the Compact and NOPEC are overseen by a board of local citizens whose main job initially was to figure out what they want, get it into a Request for Proposal, and solicit bids from competitive suppliers; they then oversee the execution of the contract. So far, things have gone just fine, which is more than can be said for regions which over the same period of time had deregulation, but no opt-out aggregation. Like California.
