Price Shock Therapy: Causal ML Reveals True Impact of Electricity Market Liberalization
TL;DR for operators Electricity deregulation is usually sold as a simple story: introduce competition, lower prices, everyone applauds politely, preferably near a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The paper behind this article is more useful because it refuses that simplicity. It asks a sharper operational question: when independent electricity producers actually entered selected US state markets, did residential electricity prices fall relative to a credible counterfactual?1 ...