Do we really want to play with our power?
Editor:
This month, the Delaware Electric Cooperative (Co-op) will be mailing ballots to their customers asking them to be removed from the supervision of the Delaware Public Service Commission (PSC).
This might appear to be an incredible move in view of the uproar throughout the state over the price increases levied on the customers of Delmarva Power.
If this move is approved, the customers will have no recourse other than to complain to the very company with which they have a problem. They will not be able to go to another source for their electric service because that is determined by their location.
The co-op is promising a savings to the customers because they will save the payments that would otherwise paid to the PSC. These payments are estimated by the co-op to be $500,000. That comes to about $1 per month to each customer.
The co-op’s customers need to think long and hard before voting to have this monopoly totally removed from state regulation. Remember the big savings that we were going to reap with the original electric deregulation and how it turned out to be a huge increase for most of the state?
Walt Berwick
Selbyville