The 2002 Edition of the District of Columbia Official Code '34-512(a) gives OPC the responsibility of monitoring the competitive market and states as follows:

The Commission and the Office of the People's Counsel shall monitor the District of Columbia retail market for electricity supply and services declared by the Commission to be potentially competitive services to ensure that the market are not being adversely affected by anticompetitive conduct and anticompetitive conditions.

In furtherance of this statutory responsibility and help ensure that the interests of District of Columbia residential consumers are protected, OPC has undertaken the following initiatives:

• Educate consumers on retail electric choice and choosing an alternate electric supplier.
• Work to ensure that consumer protection standards are developed to protect residential consumers in the competitive market.
• Participate fully or initiate cases before the D.C. Public Service Commission to help ensure that safeguards are instituted and
• that alternate suppliers play by the rules.
• Monitor consumer switching activity and look for anticompetitive conduct.
• Work to create an alternate choice for residential consumers through municipal aggregation.
• Participate in activities at the federal level to help ensure that anticompetitive conditions do not arise on the wholesale level.
• Investigate complaints regarding unfair or deceiving market techniques brought to OPC attention by residential consumers.