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by zdragnar 249 days ago
You get a fixed return on that infrastructure, but you need to keep pace with inflation in all other areas of the business. Storms, errant vehicles, animals, fires, all sorts of things cause that same infrastructure to require maintenance personnel and equipment, and that equipment needs its own maintenance, as do the offices for the personnel, and so on. It becomes a balancing act because you only get to adjust the rates every so often, and with regulator approval.
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Regulator approval really isn’t market forces, to tie this to comment above.