Although the lights are back on in California, the future of America’s electric utility industry––and customers who need cheap, reliable power––are hardly bright.  The grand experiment with electricity deregulation has been discredited, leaving policymakers badly burned and in no mood to try again. 

Have we learned enough from the California experience to risk another attempt at free market electricity? The Joint Center has assembled a panel of experts to make sense of the fiasco and analyze its implications for power markets in the future. The discussion will also debate the prescription for deregulation outlined in Sally Hunt’s new book, “Making Competition Work in Electricity.”