Electric Utility Industry & Regulation

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"Historically, the traditional structure of the electric utility industry has been that utility companies are generally publicly owned and highly regulated monopolies that grew out of the large expense of producing electricity. Large monopolies could rely on a fixed client base and offer reasonable rates with the help of government regulation that limited entry into the market and essentially protected the monopolies. However, technological innovations have created a competitive market where excess capacity is sold to other electrical utility companies and where competition becomes a welcome introduction to the industry as a whole.

Because their rates are controlled by the government and because they enjoyed protection from competition, utility companies have paid high dividends relative to their stock prices. They are..."

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