The electric company is going to inherently be a monopoly. It doesn’t make economic sense to build two or more grids for separate companies. It’s like this in every state. That part will not change.

Now having said that, there are better ways to make a monopoly work. One is an electric co-op like they have in many rural areas. They don’t make a profit and their customers are actually members that collectively own the company. They’re accountable to these members, not Wall Street.

I see a lot of people advocating for municipal systems like in Groton, Norwich, and South Norwalk. I kind of disagree with this one as I think it’d be too fragmented to really work. I’m a fan of the co-op model. Bottom line get these companies owned by Wall Street out of essential services!