Instead, for every customer who wants real-time usage information, a truck roll and on-site coordination with the incumbent utility is required, costing thousands of dollars per transaction.
The utility commission may wonder what "other breaches of trust are lurking in this transaction, " adds Scott Hempling, an independent utilities lawyer.
Upon the completion of the transaction, both companies would be brought under the same roof again. (Read New Utility Landscape As Exelon Buys Constellation).