By: John Eberly

John Eberly
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:57:47 +0000

The implication of this deal is that a privately held company can manage a utility better than a public institution. This may or may not be true, but at least three private firms were willing to invest a lot of time and money to pursue the opportunity.

OSU must have been leaving investments on the table, being inefficient with staff, or perhaps was just not willing to step up to deal with deferred maintenance.

I know from personal experience that the utilities engineers at OSU have been leaders in the field and have done the absolute best they could with the resources offered them.