The fight over system loss has become a fight over words on paper. Bills have been filed, a technical working group is drafting, and the argument in Congress has settled into a question of what may and may not appear on a consumer’s bill. That question deserves an answer, but it is worth being honest about what an answer would accomplish. Whatever Congress writes, no clause in any draft removes a single illegal connection from a single pole. Part of the difficulty is that the debate keeps using one term for two unrelated problems. Technical loss is physics: energy that heats […]...

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