upheaval in Alberta, including retail price hits,spurs calls for reform of competitive market

摘要

A tumultuous period in the Alberta wholesale power mar-nkets, which has seen an admission of market manipulation, nskyrocketing prices and indications that further market gaming nmay be under way, has Canadian lawmakers calling for a reex-namination of the 10-year-old deregulated energy market, even nas the utilities commission plans a January hearing to vet the nresponse to admitted manipulation.