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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by jimmcslim on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:59PM (#21236241)
My view is that transmission and distribution of electricity are natural monopolies and therefore should be government-owned.

Generation however should be opened up to market mechanisms that find a price for power, reliability/dispatchability, and emissions.

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by mjevans on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:02PM (#21237799)
Some forms of generation; the ones that aren't tied to specific geographic circumstances or LARGE heavily regulated super-industrial sites (that I personally recommend are secured by the military due to high energy densities).
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