Counterpoint: Owners should consider selling power authority

With the start of the new year, one of the big issues for Northern Colorado will be the impact of electrical power deregulation initiatives, both from the U.S. Congress and from the Colorado General Assembly.

Colorado Congressman Dan Schaeffer will have much to say about this issue through his cosponsorship of federal legislation that attempts to provide for deregulation. Many believe that it will be patterned after the earlier deregulation of the gas industry.

California has made strides toward deregulating its electrical power companies. Both investor-owned and municipally owned enterprises have compromised to forge new opportunities to supply customers at…