The article makes a great point that local utilities generally enjoy a captured market and new transmission decreases their market power, so utilities are not a

The article makes a great point that local utilities generally enjoy a captured market and new transmission decreases their market power, so utilities are not as pro-new transmission as one might think. Also I did not know that FERC alone currently can approve natural gas pipelines through multiple states, but electric transmission requires approval from every state the line passes through. Hopefully Congress corrects this.