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David Moore, Deputy Assistant Director, Microeconomic and Financial Studies Division, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress. Chris S. King, Executive Director, American Energy Institute
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Dear Editor:
Chris King’s article, “How Competitive Metering Has Failed,” (Nov. 15, 2001) states that the Congressional Budget Office’s report, Causes and Lessons of the California Electricity Crisis (September 2001), found that advanced metering and improved price signals could have prevented California’s energy crisis and averted rolling blackouts. Mr. King overstates both the weight the CBO report places on the demand side of the electricity market and the importance it assigns to advanced metering therein.
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