A free-market think tank is gearing up for the post-election transition with a plan to gain bipartisan buy-in on energy policy by turning away from contentious environmental regulation and toward the nation’s unsung electricity markets for a solution.

The R Street Institute, with its goal of promoting free markets, sees the nation’s large federally overseen electricity markets as a somewhat undervalued and misunderstood resource that most consumers rely upon everyday but don’t realize exist.