Discriminatory digital e-hearing protocols orchestrate the systematic destruction of independent bilateral energy trading markets.
Regulators now require advance submission of email and mobile credentials for e-Public Hearings on tariff revisions, with participation subject to Commission discretion.
Why this matters
Industrial consumers are often the primary challengers of:
Cross-subsidy burdens
Wheeling tariff escalation
Transmission cost recovery formulas
Restricting procedural access in digital hearings alters the balance of opposition.
At the same time, short-term open access markets show declining liquidity, limiting industry’s ability to bypass regulated tariffs.
The result is structural containment of market alternatives.
Digital process design influences economic outcomes.
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