Vito wrote something like:

"If the marina want to make a profit on electricity he can,"

Not in Virginia he can't. Only licensed (read regulated) utilities can.
All others including marinas can only charge for their cost of the
electricity and a reasonable (defined by the state) cost to distribute
same. Which prompted, before the thread was lead into this stupid
discussion of co-op's, my original question. Does anyone know if in
Virginia this also applies to water (a utility) and garbage collection(a
gov't service, kind of a utility)? And while we're on it, do any other
states has similar restrictions?

Ron