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Rights: A High-Stakes Debate  The absence of long-term
transmission rights could exclude potential competition—and
cause higher electricity costs.  Fortnightly Magazine - March
2006  Once upon a time, back in the days of the “traditional
regulation” of the electric power industry, one could plunk down
a billion dollars on a generation plant and have a pretty good
idea of what one would be paying to deliver the power to
customers. If one were a transmission owner, the cost of
transmission service would depend upon the costs of building and
maintaining transmission, which tend to rise over time in a
reasonably stable manner. If one were not a transmission owner,
one would obtain transmission service from a transmission
provider that would be committed to provide service for the life
of the generating plant at cost-of-service rates that would,
again, rise over time in a reasonably stable m