Vernon Smith elektrituru konkurentsist USA's

Elektrimonopoli kaotamisest ja selle järgsele korrale elektriturul on Vabalogis juba tähelepanu pööratud ning abivalmite kommentaatoritega isegi põhjalikult arutatud.

Reedeses Wall Street Journalis võtab elektrituru konkurentsi teemal USA's sõna 2002. aasta Nobeli (memoriaal)preemia majandusteaduses võitnud Vernon Smith ja seda sarnase suunitlusega sellele, mis Vabalogis mõned kuud tagasi, kuid mõnevõrra selgemalt ja konkreetsemalt kui amatöörid Eestis:

Many foreign countries--the U.K., Chile, Australia and New Zealand--have managed to liberalize electricity systems. There are no regrets in spite of mistakes, backsliding and learning bumps. Liberalization occurred because both U.S.-style regulation and foreign nationalization programs were judged serious failures.

From the beginning many foreign countries saw that restructuring must honor the technical difference between the wires business and the energy business. They severed that long enforced tie-in sale of energy with the wires monopoly, and alternative energy suppliers were allowed entry to compete with the distributors. In the U.S., we made the costly error of not embracing upfront the principle that the local monopoly wires business must be distinct and separate from the sale and provision of energy to retail accounts. Only in this way can you hope to see retail energy competition, and the unleashing of a trial-and-error discovery process in which firms search for the best means of matching dynamic pricing and monitoring technologies with consumer preferences.

"...the unleashing of a trial-and-error discovery process..." need sõnada võiksid sama hästi kuulud Hayekile (PDF).