Should the victims of illegal economic discrimination have to buy their way out? The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission thinks so.

For almost a decade, FERC has been finding that vertically integrated electric firms use their control over transmission wires to improperly favor their own power generation plants over those of competitors. In response, FERC, which oversees the interstate commerce of electricity, has been ratcheting up its remedies: from equal transmission access at cost-based rates, to “functional separation” (under which the wires and generation divisions of utilities may communicate only in public), to plans to make all utilities entrust control of their wires to nongenerating firms.

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