Lobbying

While some are concerned that the collapse of Enron and the loss of its marathon lobbying efforts for competitive markets at a critical time, particularly for electric restructuring, may have left those markets vulnerable, retail marketer The New Power Co.(NPC), doesn’t believe the open market campaign has been damaged.

Wearing yellow arm bands, consumer activists have hit the lobbying trail in Sacramento last week, hoping to beat back a legislative rescue bill for Southern California Edison and any other new energy legislation that could result in utility rate increases on top of the 4-cent/kwh hikes that took effect in a two-phase process earlier this year.