Creation of a vibrant wholesale market is a necessary prelude to customers truly having supply options. Various interested parties in the state are seeking to develop a workable competitive electricity market through the addition of new generation and expanded transmission capacity.
Unlike California and certain other states, Michigan's restructuring law does not deregulate electric generation Utilities must maintain generation capacity for customers who choose to take service from an AES and later return to their original utility company.
Transmission
upgrades will help build the market
Another
piece of Michigan's restructuring
puzzle focuses on increasing
the state's transmission
import capacity so power
generated elsewhere can be
brought into Michigan for
consumers. AEP, Consumers
Energy and Detroit Edison
are required to increase
transmission import capability
by 2,000 megawatts by Summer
2002.
