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Texans are now receiving alarmingly high invoices for their electricity, even though the system failed.
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This is a harbinger of what could happen in Alberta. During the Klein era, companies like Enron lobbied the government to replace a perfectly functioning regulated system which provided the lowest power rates in North America with a free-market system where power producers sell electricity to the power distributors at a price determined by an hourly bid process.