Green = Deregulation laws/orders in place
Yellow = Not deregulated

Utah

Electricity Rates

Residential = 7 cents/kwh (National ranking: 36)

Commerical = 6 cents/kwh
(National ranking: 42)

Industrial = 3 cents/kwh(National ranking: 45)

kwh = kilowatt hour
1st ranking = highest rate in catagory

Deregulation

Utah's power industry is regulated -- though the public service commission does not regulate municipal power companies -- and consumers do not have a choice of electricity provider. The state's legislature has created a task force to study deregulation. The task force's November 1998 report recommended monitoring deregulation elsewhere in the country and a go slow approach in Utah. The state legislature has extended the task force until November 2002.

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