Why Are Some Americans Paying So Much For Electricity: Jake Morabito in American Family News
What's in common is that all those states have chosen over the years to enact strict polices that make it harder for businesses to create electricity.
ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Senior Task Force Director Jake Morabito spoke to Chris Woodward of American Family News about the findings of the recently released Energy Affordability Report.
The annual Energy Affordability Report calculates the average electricity prices in a state by measuring the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation electrical costs.
That, he says, is an easy way to measure how affordable energy is in a state.
Removing Hawaii (50th) and Alaska (45th) from the equation – what Morabito calls “special case” states because of their geographic location – the states with highest electricity prices are California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
“What’s in common is that all those states have chosen over the years to enact strict polices that make it harder for businesses to create electricity and expand electricity capacity,” Morabito explains. “This can be done through policies such as a renewable portfolio standard, which essentially dictates X percent of the state’s capacity has to come from renewables, artificially raising the price of electricity to meet that goal.”