Agreed. The monopoly regulators who tell the cable companies what to do should give them a limit on the electric load their customer-premises equipment (cable b

Agreed. The monopoly regulators who tell the cable companies what to do should give them a limit on the electric load their customer-premises equipment (cable boxes) may draw when idle. It should be no more than dozens of milliwatts. When the load exceeds that, the cost of that electricity to their customers should be refunded via a credit line item in each bill. That will give the cable operators a way to transition to better equipment, and an incentive to get the transition completed. Accountability: there's no other way.